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Walter Cronkite
Age: 92 (passed away Jul. 17th, 2009)
Height: 6'
Birth Place: St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
Born: Nov. 4th, 1916
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Walter Cronkite's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: [no bio found]
TRIVIA:
- He is an only child.
- He is outspoken in his distaste for 'Oliver Stone (I)' (qv)'s film _JFK (1991)_ (qv). Calling the film "Oliver Stone junk" and "A dangerous work of fiction that seriously mid-leads a whole generation of Americans who were not alive at that time".
- Father-in-law of 'Deborah Rush' (qv).
- Attended both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in 1928. The former was on a boy scout field trip and the latter was during a visit to his grandparents in Kansas City.
- Is the 1966 recipient of the prestigious Connor Award given by the brothers of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity based out of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also an honorary brother of the fraternity.
- He met his wife Betsy when he was working at a radio station in Kansas City. The two were paired up to do a cosmetics commercial and married a year later.
- Makes a unique claim about his television career. When he attended 1933 World's Fair, he was present at an exhibit displaying an early example of television. At the exhibit, the attendees were allowed to sit in front of the camera and watch themselves on the screen. When Cronkite sat in front of the camera he did an improptu impression of a man he had seen playing two flutes at once. Therefore, he jokingly claims that he was definitely on television decades before his contemporaries.
- Reported on the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals in 1945.
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