Walter Cronkite is dead.
Michael Jackson, Billy Mays and now Walter Cronkite, all within a span of a few days of each other, have died, Cronkite only leaving just an hour ago.
We just got back from watching Harry Potter at the new multiplex theater in Accra and after noting on how terrible the movie was (it was awful), we did a quick ice cream run to a local bar before returning home to headlines of Uncle Walter, dead.
I remember learning about his journalism career in class a couple summers ago. As a journalist, he was the most trusted man in America and with his one-line dissenting opinion of the Vietnam stalemate, President Lyndon Johnson said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” I thought to myself that I wanted to be a journalist like Cronkite someday. One who had the discernment and the nation’s trust to give his opinion when necessary and to do his job as a reporter otherwise.
And now Walter Cronkite has passed, and just like Michael Jackson who was a living icon, Cronkite’s role in our history book is now officially over.
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A few weeks before the end of the school year during a game of Cranium, Eric was frantically charading to me. I knew who he was talking about, but the name was just at the tip of my tongue.
Walter Cronkite is one of the famous names in Cranium’s Star Performer deck.
And now he is dead at 92.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/167649/Legendary-CBS-anchor-Walter-Cronkite-dies-at-92
