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Remembering Walter Cronkite

Cronkite Steady at the Wheel

Cronkite Steady at the Wheel

Walter Cronkite pilots a sailboat in 1971. “Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl," Betsy Cronkite joked. "Walter has always wanted to go that way, but he's going to have to settle for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old.”

In this photo: Walter Cronkite

Photo: Leonard McCombe/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Jan 01, 1971
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