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Remembering Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite, Towering Personality

Walter Cronkite, Towering Personality

Walter Cronkite poses with a model of the CBS News Election Headquarters in 1962. He was recruited to CBS by Edward R. Murrow in 1950. He became evening news anchor in 1962, and a few months later, the news program was expanded from 15 minutes to 30.

In this photo: Walter Cronkite

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Oct 01, 1962