walter cronkite

This weekend Marie and I had the pleasure of visiting the Walter Cronkite exhibit at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library...

(via LoneStarters)

The University of Texas at Austin's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum have announced a new exhibit "Cronkite: Eyewitness to a Century," opening May 15 at the LBJ Library.

As one of the nation's preeminent broadcast journalists, Walter Cronkite brought almost every major news story of the last half [...]

CBS News producer Don Hewitt died yesterday of pancreatic cancer at the age of 86. The creator of 60 Minutes got his start with the network in 1948.

Hewitt worked with Edward R. Murrow, produced the Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate and produced the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

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Walter Cronkite, longtime reporter and news anchor, died July 17, 2009, at the age of 92. Cronkite attended The University of Texas at Austin in the 1930s and worked as a student reporter at The Daily Texan.

His papers reside with the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the university. "Walter Cronkite defined broadcast journalism in [...]

He was the face of CBS Evening News for the better part of two decades and known as the most trusted man in America.

Even his famous sign off, “And that’s the way it is,” speaks to the type of objectivity Cronkite seemed to value above all else.