"And that's the way it is" almost wasn't anything at all. The famous line that ended each of Walter Cronkite's CBS Evening News broadcasts and endeared him to millions was panned by the legendary ...

The nation’s top journalists gathered Thursday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., to celebrate Walter Cronkite’s legacy on what would have been his 100th birthday. The Cronkite Century ...

Cronkite, who died in 2009 at 92, is remembered as a media icon. Read on for the illustrious newsman's thoughts on ambition, hard work and leadership. 1. "I am in a position to speak my mind.

THE best hours of Walter Cronkite's life were not spent in a newsroom, or in pursuit of a story. They came after vigorous days of sailing his yawl Wyntje off the coast of Georgia or Maine. There ...

Cronkite took a camera crew to the war-torn nation early that year. Upon returning, he hosted a prime-time documentary about the conflict. His closing comments play on a museum monitor: ...

Walter Cronkite’s life and his work followed a simple, consistent line. At the age of 12, he read about a foreign correspondent in BOY’S LIFE and decided that was what he wanted to be.

Although Cronkite left the anchor's desk at CBS Evening News more than a generation ago, he was still known by many as "Uncle Walter" — the ultimate reliable source, the nation's narrator and ...

A Walter Cronkite exhibit at the LBJ Library & Museum in Austin, Texas, explores the veteran newsman and some of the events he covered: WWII, JFK's assassination, Vietnam, the space race.