Comments on: Walter Cronkite Dies

Television Pioneer, CBS Legend, Passes Away in New York at 92

[thgdriver]

Just like a liberal to state that JFK was to blame for the missiles being put in Cuba. Hey Consultofactus, It was the Russians and Khrushchev that did that. Kennedy reacted to a reckless threat to peace by them. By the way, when every body wanted to nuke Cuba including all on the Joint Chefs of Staff, It was Kennedy that said no!!

[Dgunner]

In 1967 i was sitting in the door of a gun ship after just returning from securing a medical LZ. I was searching my pockets for a match. I had just about to run out of pockets when a raspy voice found my ear. Corporal can I offer you a match? I turned and there stood Cronkite. I was awed even above the horror of where i had just returned. I said, Hey man you are Walter Cronkite. He replied yes Iam and you are one of many thousands of my heros.He reached in his pocket and handed me a pack of gopher matches I used two of them and asked him to autograph the cover and he said he would be glad to autograph anything that I wanted.So I took out a metal marker and and handed it to him he asked what to sign and i asked if he sign my .50s he said sure . Then and there he wrote BAD NEWS on the chamber side of my .50 caliber door guns.I will never forget that day or the man whose voice was known the known the world over.The man whose face could get him lunch with a soldier and dinner with the president.I still have the gopher matches and and a picture taken by one of the pilots that day was different than the rest of my tours it just brightened my week. Then the next week we went in to VALLEY and evryones world changed that day on both sides of the war.

[xlib]

Real journalism died in this country a long time ago. Since Cronkite worked for cbs it is apparent that his integrity did not rub off on what we now call "journalists".
What we have today is nothing but propaganda, blocking and just not reporting certain stories, censorship, opinion and conjecture.
For those who say I am writing "hate speech", nope, I'm giving my opinion and that's exactly what your media now does.
Of course that opinion is formed by the thug in charge and the dnc.

[tolgirl77]

Dear CBS News,
I have to tell you that when I was a little girl of 5 I thought Walter Cronkite was God.
My parents would not have dinner until he was done reading the news every night and sometimes even on weekends, and he new so much about the world so I just thought he was God. It wasn't until I learned how to read and write that I realized he was a news anchor on the evening news. But He was the man in all the world that I admired and held in the highest regard all my life. What a true Icon we have missed.

[rinaldom]

Mr Cronkite,
Thank you very much for all the Space flight coverage you provided to the world. Your expression of excitement and joy brought the experience as close to an 11 year old could ever hope to get.

You can now finally reach for the stars and walk on the moon as you expressed your desire to do.
I wouldn't be suprised if, during some future lunar expedition, we found your name written in the lunar dust.

I know when I pass on, I intend to try to do the same

[jwadej74]

I remember that anytime I heard about something happening around the world, I knew that if Walter said it happened, then it was indeed a fact!

[betsyrob]

I remember all the special memories that everyone else does, but Walter Cronkite helped me decide what I wanted to do with my life. Not a newsman or reporter, but a history teacher. His program, You Are There, made history come alive for me. Thank you Uncle Walter for giving me a love of history and leading me to 34 years as a teacher.

[Connective]

I was 22 years old in 1975. Just out of college, I was working as an advance man for the presidential campaign of Fred Harris. Waiting anxiously outside an event for my candidate to arrive, a short, elegant man approached, whom I immediately recognized as Walter Cronkite. He walked up to me, stuck out his hand, and asked, "How are you tonight, young man?" I don't remember my answer, only that this media giant whom I had grown up watching and hearing relate each day's events, had actually walked over to me to offer his greetings. It is an indelible memory that I will always cherish.

[South-of-Heaven]

Walter Cronkite.
id say a few words but i dont believe they would do any justice.
Rest In Peace.

[lj012]

I think people mistake what is familiar with what is great. He brings back memories, which is nice. He was a big liberal, and not an unbiased news source as people like to portray him.