Walter Cronkite has passed away

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<p>ABC News just announced that Walter Cronkite just passed away. There goes a legend for sure - probably the most trusted news anchorman in American television history.</p>

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<p>A sad departing indeed. He set the standard for trustworthy news reporting. He will be missed.</p>

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<p>Incredibly sad news :(</p>

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<p>And that’s the way it was.</p>

<p>And it shall never be the same again.</p>

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<p>Sad that he had moved on. Fitting perhaps that he left with the release of the enhanced tapes of the lunar landing.
He was perhaps the one most influential voice on TV during my formative years.</p>

<p>Smooth sailing into that great beyond, Mr. Cronkite!</p>

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<p>Agreed. RIP Walter.</p>

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<p>How sad that he just missed the 40th anniversary of the moon landing…</p>

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<p>^^^ He won’t miss it Kathy. He’ll just be reporting on it from a closer vantage point.</p>

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<p>He certainly was blessed with a wonderful voice. RIP.</p>

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<p>I will always associate his voice with the major events of my youth - the moon landing, the Robert Kennedy and MLK assassinations, Kent State… so sad.</p>

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<p>I thought of so many things when I saw that Walter Cronkite had died. He and my father worked together in London during the blitz, at the United Press International office, so I grew up watching him present the news every single night. (Cronkite was considerably younger than my father.) </p>

<p>It’s a loss.</p>

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<p>A true American icon. And to think, he accomplished everything he did not only without an elite education, but without a college degree at all (he attended the University of Texas for two years). Rest in peace, Mr. Cronkite.</p>

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<p>So sad… What a huge loss.</p>

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<p>Sorry to hear that. RIP, Walter Cronkite. The first broadcaster I remember from my childhood, back to the Kennedy assassination. I distinctly recall what a momentous occasion it seemed when he retired.</p>

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<p>Loved him. Our childhood was so full of dramatic bad news-war, assassinations…he was the guy I wanted to hear it from.</p>

<p>Interestingly, one of the most wise and trusted men I knew IRL passed away today.</p>

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<p>I won’t speak ill of the dead. Though in this case I am sorely tempted.</p>