RIP Walter Cronkite

[Misty_Morning]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533660,00.html

 

[Edward Teach]

Damn. I don't have many heros but he was one of mine.

 

[TE999]

Damn! I grew up listening to him. "And that's the way it is...(and the date)" was his sign off. All the great ones are gone...Huntley & Brinkley, Hugh Downs, Douglas Edwards...we'll never see their kind again.

RIP Uncle Walter.

 

[impressive]

 

[MagicaPractica]

Thank you for all you share and now, rest in peace.

 

[Boxlicker101]

It will be interesting to compare the fuss made about the passing of MJ compared to that of The Cronk. I certainly don't expect to see this funeral, etc. all over the TV for the next two weeks.

 

[3113]

We will not see his like again, I fear. The television news was very lucky to have him as long as it did, not only as its fatherly voice, but as the benchmark for those who followed in his footsteps and took him as their role model. RIP

 

[trysail]

Sail on into the night, Wyntje!

 

[slyc_willie]

Damn. I don't have many heros but he was one of mine.

One by one, all mine are dying off, too.



Good Night, Mr. Cronkite.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

THANK YOU JESUS! Now! If God will find a pulpit in Hell for Jimmy Carter!

 

[Handley_Page]

Walter Cronkite, when quoted by the BBC was the sort of voice that made you listen. His language was as accurate as his stories.

RIP, Sir.

 

[jomar]

92

 

[penandpaper]

Rest In Peace.

He lived a good long life, so hopefully it'll be celebrated by those who knew him.

On a side note, anyone know if he ever finished high school? I remember reading somewhere, a long time ago, he didn't. I found it interesting. It just goes to show you what a self-learner he was. Of course, times were different back then.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

And like every other old man on the planet he got senile and talked about unicorns and fairies and such nonsense that cant be true in a million years. People always live too long.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Rest In Peace.

He lived a good long life, so hopefully it'll be celebrated by those who knew him.

On a side note, anyone know if he ever finished high school? I remember reading somewhere, a long time ago, he didn't. I found it interesting. It just goes to show you what a self-learner he was. Of course, times were different back then.

From what I have heard a couple of times, during the Great Depression he dropped out of college after two years in order to go to work as a broadcaster. I would assume he finished high school before entering college.

Those numbers don't really seem to add up, though. Assuming he died in 2009 at the age of 92, that would mean he was born in 1916 or 1917. He was just barely a teenager at the time the Depression started.

 

[slyc_willie]

From what I have heard a couple of times, during the Great Depression he dropped out of college after two years in order to go to work as a broadcaster. I would assume he finished high school before entering college.

Those numbers don't really seem to add up, though. Assuming he died in 2009 at the age of 92, that would mean he was born in 1916 or 1917. He was just barely a teenager at the time the Depression started.

Yeah, 1916-2009. He attended UT Austin, and in 1935 or so dropped out to begin his newspaper career. he was a freelance reporter until WWII, I believe, when he joined the United Press. He is very well remembered in Texas.