Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years, from 1962 to 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. Cronkite received numerous honors including two Peabody Awards, a George Polk Award, an Emmy Award and in 1981 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.
Cronkite in 1983
Cronkite interviews President John F. Kennedy to inaugurate the first half-hour nightly news broadcast in 1963
Cronkite meeting with President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1981
Cronkite wrote an article for the first issue of Martha's Vineyard Magazine.
The CBS Evening News is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. The CBS Evening News is a daily evening broadcast featuring news reports, feature stories and interviews by CBS News correspondents and reporters covering events around the world. The program has been broadcast since July 1, 1941, under the original title CBS Television News, eventually adopting its current title in 1963.
Edwards on set of CBS Television News
Cronkite interviews President John F. Kennedy to inaugurate the first half-hour nightly news broadcast in 1963
Schieffer in April 2006
Couric with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Mosul, Iraq, April 8, 2011
