Goodbye Uncle Walter

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18 Jul 2009 01:39 #1 by Gwynedd (Gwynedd)

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Goodbye our favorite anchorman. You will be missed! Walter Cronkite died last night at age 92.

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18 Jul 2009 07:33 #2 by Seamstress (Seamstress)

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I remember his coverage of President Kennedy's assassination--he was on the air for hours without his suit coat, something that was quite unheard of at the time, but then, so was shooting a president.

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18 Jul 2009 10:02 #3 by geezer (geezer)

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RIP after a life well-lived.

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18 Jul 2009 11:37 #4 by Thorgrim Ironfeld (MitchC)

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92, a good run to be sure, but match that with his incredible impact, being THE face of world events and how the message and information was translated to the US and the world, and it can fill you with awe. With all the avenue's of information today, and the massive evolution of the media in general (and not all good), its hard for those who didn't grow up in his era to understand what it meant to hear from a face/voice and have a nation connect with that one person, and especially through the tenuous times of his tenure. A true loss in more ways than could be expressed in words.

And that's the way it was...

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18 Jul 2009 13:12 #5 by WayaMilenko (WayaMilenko)

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Goodbye to one of the last TRUE journalists

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