http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/17/walter.cronkite.dead/index.html

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How SAD !! He almost made it to july 20th the 40th anniversary of The first man on the Moon, just 3 days short. Too bad he didn't live long enough to celebrate 40 years. Truely a GREAT icon of our childhood times of the 60's/70's
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Oh, no.

I had the good fortune to work with Mr. Cronkite about 15 years ago. He was a very nice gentleman.

Truly a legend in broadcasting. Hated to hear this.


And that's the way it is...............

I can't help but feel like a close relative has died (they didn't call him Uncle Walter for nothing).

What a giant. There will never be another like him.

RIP

He was the first newscaster I remember seeing...and the only one I trusted to give the news honestly. Goodnight, Walter... :cry:

If Walter reported it, America believed it. The news was never the same for me after he retired. :(

So many good people leaving us. And yet we still have folks like Rush sticking around. Sorry. That was uncalled for.

We'll be hearing and seeing lots of Cronkite stories. Here's mine:

Years ago...research suggests August 1978, but I haven't confirmed this yet...Cronkite mentioned a particular unmanned spacecraft had run out of fuel. As a young teenage space buff, I knew the vehicle he cited couldn't be the one so effected, and left the room briefly. On my return, asked by my mom where I'd gone, I said, "To phone CBS news. I know Walter Cronkite wouldn't want to get something about space wrong."
At the very end of the broadcast -- in other words, some 15 minutes later -- Cronkite announced the spacecraft's correct name, made a second correction, and then closed, "Other than that, nothing wrong with that story. And that's the way it is."
I shall never cease to be impressed with an anchorman so diligent in his pursuit of truth that a single call from a youngster, in an age without any means of data collection quicker than telephone, would yield such a result.
A great man has left us. We shall see his like no more.

"And what sort of a day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that altered and illuminated our times. And YOU were there."
Thank you, Uncle Walter, for turning the history into an interesting subject on Saturdays on CBS.
RIP.
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I am sad that he is gone. But in a way glad he did not have to see our nation, that led the world in space exploration, reduced to celebrating 40 years of incompetence.:(

"And what sort of a day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that altered and illuminated our times. And YOU were there."
Thank you, Uncle Walter, for turning the history into an interesting subject on Saturdays on CBS.
RIP.
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I loved "You Are There" on Saturday Mornings too, one of my fonder memories of sixties TV. And he was the voice and face of the space program during Apollo's heyday. I can remember watching him the night he declared Vietnam was a mistake, nobody but Cronkite could have done that back then. Later in life I enjoyed his occasional blogs on Huffington, and was amazed to learn what a liberal he was and how similiar we thought about several subjects.

Guy was a class act and did it his way. I doubt we'll ever see another like him.

My favorite Cronkite moment was when the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle safely touched down on the moon. For a brief moment, the seasoned pro lost his composure and exclaimed, "Oh, boy! Oh, boy!" like an excited child. If America had kept up the level of enthusiasm and support for space exploration that Cronkite had, we'd have hotels on Mars by now.