Walter Cronkite, a journalist and television anchorman, died on July 17, 2009. Cronkite studied at the University of Texas, Austin. He was awarded LL.D. degrees from Rollins College, Bucknell University, and Syracuse University. Walter Cronkite was an influential interpreter of national and world events in the fledgling field of television news. He was one of the first journalists to cover World War II from the landing on D-Day through the Nuremburg trials and served as the first post-war bureau chief for United Press in Moscow. He joined CBS as a news correspondent in 1950, hosting the CBS Evening News from 1962-1981. He appeared in a 1984 video about the American Antiquarian Society that is still popular with visitors to Antiquarian Hall. Walter Cronkite served with Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and other distinguished members on the AAS newspaper preservation committee in the 1980s. An avid sailor, he reportedly docked often at James Russell Wiggins’s home at Carlton Cove on the Benjamin River in Maine. Throughout his long career, he spoke eloquently about events in American history.
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