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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:
- Attended San Jacinto High School in Houston, Texas with 'Marvin Zindler' (qv).
- Some time before his death Cronkite's family reveled that he was suffering from cerebrovascular disease.
- On March 15, 2005 he lost his wife of 64 years, Betsy, three weeks before their 65th anniversary.
- In 1997, released his autobiography, "A Reporter's Life", which coincided with a two-hour TV special, _"Cronkite Remembers" (1997)_ (qv), in which he reminisced about his years as a reporter. A week later, an eight-hour version aired on The Discovery Channel.
- Is a licensed amateur (ham) radio operator with the call sign KB2GSD.
- 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.
- 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".
- CBS asked Cronkite to come up with a signature closing line for the evening news. When he came up with "And that's the way it is", CBS was concerned that it would suggest a certain infallability. But Cronkite explained that it would fit any type of story whether it was funny or sad or ironic.
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