Walter Leland Cronkite 1916-2009

Walter Cronkite had a way about him that made you feel he was talking straight to you. He was there for everything as I was growing up. Cronkite joined CBS News in 1950 and hosted public affairs programs. In 1953, he began narrating the long-running "You Are There" series, which recreated historical events. He took over the CBS anchor chair on April 16, 1962, and his stirring reports on issues from the space program to the Vietnam War often had as much impact as the events themselves. Cronkite grew teary and his voice cracked as he told the nation in 1963 that President Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas. On July 20, 1969 he criticized himself for being at a loss for journalistic words as Apollo 11 put the first men on the moon. He pushed his reports on Watergate to the forefront, ultimately resulting in the resignation of President Nixon. On January 22, 1973 he received a phone call during a broadcast of the CBS evening news and was the first to break the news of President Lyndon B. Johnson's death. Cronkite's wife of 64 years, Betsy, died in 2005 from cancer. They had three children.
I literally grew up with Walter. And “That’s the way it is”.