LAST NEWSCAST AIRED ON THIS DAY IN 1981

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CBS News correspondent Walter Cronkite delivers the
news from behind a microphone in 1951.

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Cronkite informs a shocked nation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

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Walter Cronkite anchored CBS News’ coverage of the Apollo
11 moon landing, July 20, 1969.

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On March 6, 1981, CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite
(above) signed off with his trademark valediction, "And that’s
the way it is, " for the final time. Over the previous 19 years,
Cronkite had
established himself not only as the nation’s
leading newsman but as
"the most trusted man in America,
" a steady presence during two decades of social and political
upheaval.
 

 

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Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)

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