Henry Raymond
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mike Raburn on July 18, 2009, 03:50:42 AM
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NEW YORK -- A CBS executive says retired CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite,
"the most trusted man in America," has died at his home in New York. He was
92.
CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. after a long
illness with his family by his side.
He was the face of CBS News from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the
Kennedy assassination to Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.
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I get news up here late.
Walter Cronkite was and IS an American Institution.
His likeness ought to be on Mount Rushmore and / or a monetary unit. (coin or dollar)
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My grandfather was Jimmy Powers who covered the fights at Madison Square garden. He worked with Walter Cronkite when he was a'young fella'.
Jimmy wrote a colum for the Daily news called the Power House that wrote about the Yankees. He once wrote that Lou Gehrig was going to die, and would infect the rest of the team. That cost him a million dollars in a law suit! But on the good side he was one of the first influential sports broad casters that backed and supported 'people of color' playing baseball.