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	Remembering Walter Cronkite

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7-22-2009 1:57 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1a653fc9-ee96-44eb-aba2-7d67c1002699/890B88E6-BF98-4CAB-B8C2-5E1208BD358B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_walter_cronkite" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_walter_cronkite" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_walter_cronkite">Cronkite was the face of the "<SPAN id="lw_1247952550_4" class="yshortcuts">CBS Evening News</SPAN>" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of <SPAN id="lw_1247952550_5" class="yshortcuts">President John F. Kennedy</SPAN> and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, <SPAN id="lw_1247952550_6" class="yshortcuts">Watergate</SPAN> and the Iranian hostage crisis.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_walter_cronkite">t was Cronkite who read the bulletins coming from Dallas when Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_walter_cronkite">Cronkite was the broadcaster to whom the title "anchorman" was first applied</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_walter_cronkite">Cronkite valued accuracy, objectivity and understated compassion.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_walter_cronkite">when Cronkite took sides, he helped shape the times</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_walter_cronkite"><SPAN id="lw_1247952550_19" class="yshortcuts">President Lyndon B. Johnson</SPAN> reportedly said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_walter_cronkite">When he summed up the news each evening by stating, "And THAT's the way it is," millions agreed.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_walter_cronkite">After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Cronkite was asked to introduce the postponed Emmy awards show. He told the audience that in its coverage of the attack and its aftermath, "television, the great common denominator, has lifted our common vision as never before."
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