“And that’s the way it is”
He was known by some as ‘Old
Ironpants’, ‘Uncle Walter’ and even ‘King of the Anchormen’. Of course I refer
to broadcast journalist Walter Leland Cronkite.
Lead anchor at CBS Evening News for
19 years, he started breaking the boundaries even after a year. He was the
first anchor to have a half-hourly nightly news program in America, expanding
from 15 minutes in September 1963.
