Walter Cronkite, longtime CBS anchorman, dies at 92
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Walter Cronkite, center, moderates the "Great Nuclear Arms Debate" at the CBS studios in New York in 1983.The 'CBS Evening News' standard-bearer guided a nation through times of turmoil and great achievement. He was long considered 'the most trusted man in America.'
By Valerie J. Nelson
6:17 PM PDT, July 17, 2009
Walter Cronkite, the television newsman whose steady baritone informed, reassured and guided the nation during the tumultuous 1960s and '70s and who was still regarded as "the most trusted man in America" years after leaving his CBS anchor chair, has died. He was 92.
Cronkite died Friday at his home in New York after a long illness, according to CBS Vice President Linda Mason.