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Remembering Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Reassures America

Walter Cronkite Reassures America

Walter Cronkite sits behind a desk and listens to a receiver as he broadcasts a program looking back at the Hindenburg airship disaster for the CBS Television series "You Are There," which reenacted historical events in a news-report format. He always signed off saying, "What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times ... and you were there." He started off in the 1930s as a Kansas City sports announcer using the pseudonym Walter Wilcox.

In this photo: Walter Cronkite

Photo: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

Feb 03, 1953
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