July 17, 2009

Cronkite dies

I suppose we knew it was coming, but it's still hard to believe. Walter Cronkite has died of cardiovascular disease at 92.

There will be hundreds of eulogies for him, and rightly so. My first memory of him as Cronkite, not just the guy on the evening news, was probably November 22, 1963. Seeing him remove his glasses as he said "President Kennedy died at one p.m. Central Standard Time." made that awful day finally real.

Here's the video of that moment.

Posted by Linkmeister at July 17, 2009 02:45 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Oh yes, I remember that well. I also remember him from a history program called "You Are There". My mother was a history buff and she liked the way historical events were presented in that program so we watched it every week.

We'll never see any broadcast personality that will ever come close to him. He was the last of the great reporters of '60s and '70s.

Posted by: Illanoy Gal at July 18, 2009 01:22 AM

I thought he'd passed some years ago. (oops)

Posted by: tomorrow at July 18, 2009 09:25 AM