Walter Cronkite covered the birth of space exploration, John F. Kennedy's assassination and Watergate. Yet the reporter and television news anchor once known as the "Most Trusted Man in America" never ...
The same institutions that nostalgically invoke Cronkite as the embodiment of past trust have been repeating on an industrial scale the very practice that he helped normalize: the confident ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - November 4, 1916. Walter Cronkite is born in St. Joseph, Missouri. At age 20, Cronkite was hired to broadcast news and sports at KCMO Radio. His on-air name was Walter Wilcox ...
February 16, 1923. The burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, or King Tut, is opened by archaeologist Howard Carter. Among the treasure trove of golden objects, funeral jewelry that is now on ...