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Cronkite was married for nearly 65 years to Mary Elizabeth 'Betsy' Maxwell Cronkite, from March 30, 1940, until her death from cancer on March 15, 2005. [ 89 ] [ 90 ] They had three children: Nancy Cronkite, Mary Kathleen (Kathy) Cronkite , and Walter Leland (Chip) Cronkite III (who is married to actress Deborah Rush ).
Walter Cronkite, the newsman who Americans turned to in good times and bad when he anchored the "CBS Evening News" for 19 years, reportedly is near death. According to TVNewser, CBS (CBS) began ...
Under Rather's predecessor, Walter Cronkite, the CBS Evening News was a strong No. 1 in the ratings, [157] which Rather maintained through much of the 1980s. [158] However, Tom Brokaw and his NBC Nightly News, and Peter Jennings of ABC News' World News Tonight, increasing in popularity, eventually cut deep into the Rather broadcast's numbers. [159]
Walter Cronkite and Charles Collingwood had been switching back and forth to report on the incident for about four hours after Cronkite broke the news at 1:40 p.m. EST. Reasoner took over the anchor chair after Collingwood tossed it to him at 5:49 p.m. EST and opened with the repeat of an announcement by Frank Stanton, the president of CBS ...
Walter Cronkite didn't get a burial at sea, but it wasn't far off. Time and again over the course of his funeral service, held this afternoon at St. Bartholomew's Church in midtown Manhattan ...
In 1950, when Edward R. Murrow convinced Walter Cronkite to join CBS News, the television news industry was still in its infancy. Nineteen years later, Cronkite left the network's anchor desk as ...
From 2000 to 2005, Cronkite presented a series of essays for National Public Radio, reflecting on various key events of his life, including his involvement in You Are There in the 1950s. Notable guest stars included: [citation needed] John Cassavetes as Plato in "The Death of Socrates" James Dean as Robert Ford in "The Capture of Jesse James"
He is the narrator of a multimedia book by Joe Garner, We Interrupt This Broadcast, with a foreword by Walter Cronkite and an epilogue by Brian Williams, which was a sequel to the Edward R. Murrow record album I Can Hear It Now. Kurtis has authored three books: On Assignment (1984), Death Penalty on Trial (2004), and Prairie Table Cookbook (2008).