RIP Walter Cronkite

I have to Agree Cathy another legend leaves us, we in europe even knew of him and he spoke from the heart and was so cool calm and professional, like you say he reported on all those major moment in history with ease
A Great Man in his field
Rest in Peace Walter

Michael

No surprise that I echo Cathy's words, as we're from the same generation.

I also echo the President's words -

"Walter was always more than just an anchor. He was someone we could trust to guide us through the most important issues of the day; a voice of certainty in an uncertain world," President Obama said in a statement Friday.

"He was family. He invited us to believe in him, and he never let us down. This country has lost an icon and a dear friend, and he will be truly missed."

Cathy's absolutely right - he was the most trusted man in America when news reporting was still an admirable profession.  It saddens me that his modern counterparts are just the opposite.  Every night, at the dinner table at six with my family, Walter would tell it like it was and with no inflamatory rhetoric - just old-fashioned news reporting.  I was just a child when Kennedy was assassinated, but I'll never forget seeing that adult man struggling for the words to tell a nation their beloved President had died.  He's right up there with Edward R. Murrow and Ernie Pyle as one of our best newsmen.  Sad day indeed.

Yes, even on our side of the Atlantic, he was a legend. I recently researched the "Airpower" series in my quest for information about the "Battle for the Pacific" and Truk Lagoon. What gravitas that man had, clear concise and personal - a hero of his day that will be remembered by so many. Rest in Peace