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From the LA Times:
Walter Cronkite, the revered news anchor and managing editor who presided over "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, has died. Cronkite was 92. From The Times' obituary:
Beginning with the Kennedy assassination in 1963, Cronkite shaped coverage of some of the most tumultuous times in U.S. history, including the 1968 assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

In the early 1970s, an opinion poll identified Cronkite as the most trusted public figure in America, a label that stayed with him for decades.

Indeed, Cronkite invaded the American consciousness like few other journalists. Times television critic Robert Lloyd recalls that, during his childhood, "I conflated him in my mind with Captain Kangaroo, another graying man with a mustache who ordered the world in a voice of quiet authority, and with that other grand-paternal Uncle Walter, Disney -- men who gave you the feeling that things would be all right, in the near future and the far."


From Wick:
Walter Cronkite died at his home in New York City, New York, at the age of 92 on July 17, 2009 of complications from cerebrovascular disease