Walter Cronkite is the broadcast journalist against whom all others are measured.
He anchored the country's most prestigious and arguably best newscast, "CBS Evening News," during the golden age of broadcast network news: the 1960s and 1970s.
Well-respected and well-followed as peers and rivals like David Brinkley and John Chancellor, Cronkite became the gold standard, the living face and symbol of TV news at a time when more Americans were turning to television for information about the world.
Cronkite told them about the death of a President in 1963, the abdication of another President in 1968 and the fall of a third President in 1974. He took Americans through the enormous advances of the civil rights movement and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.
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