Walter Cronkite arrives for the Broadway opening of the Mel Brooks musical "Young Frankenstein" in New York, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007.
Legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite and opera singer Joanna Simon arrive for the Vanity Fair 2007 Tribeca Film Festival party at The State Supreme Courthouse in New York on April 24, 2007.
Larry King, left, stands next to Walter Cronkite at a party in New York held by CNN celebrating King's 50 years of broadcasting Wednesday, April 18, 2007.
Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite awaits the start of a memorial service for longtime CBS News journalist Ed Bradley, held Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006.
A jubilant Walter Cronkite conducts The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra during the Christmas concert at the Conference Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Dec. 13, 2002.
Newsman Walter Cronkite listens during the Possible Dreams Auction 2006 in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard Island on Monday, Aug. 7, 2006.
Walter Cronkite speaks during the PBS segment of the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour panel discussion at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Jan. 15, 2006, in Pasadena, Calif. His Cronkite Ward Company produces award-winning documentaries for The Discovery Channel, PBS and other networks.
Journalist Walter Cronkite attends the United Nations gala in New York honoring the Unsung Heroes of Poverty on Nov. 8, 2005.
Caroline Kennedy introduces former CBS News Anchor Walter Cronkite at the Kennedy Library Forum, Oct. 26, 2005.
News anchors, from left, Brian Williams, Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite and Tom Brokaw attend the International Radio and Television Society Foundation's 2004 Gold Medal Dinner honoring the broadcast network news anchors at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on March 16, 2004.
CBS News broadcasters, from left, Ed Bradley, Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace and Morley Safer on stage during CBS AT 75, a three-hour celebration commemorating CBS's 75th anniversary, broadcast live from the Hammerstein Ballroom at New York's Manhattan Center on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2003.
Veteran newsmen and longtime friends Andy Rooney, left, and Walter Cronkite chat at the Cronkite Awards event at Arizona State University, where Rooney was receiving the Cronkite Award Nov. 6, 2003.
TV personality Merv Griffin, left, and news anchor Walter Cronkite attend the Museum of Television and Radio gala honoring of Griffin at the Waldorf Astoria on May 26, 2005, in New York.
Walter Cronkite and wife Betsy arrive at the 27th Annual Kennedy Center Honors at the U.S. Department of State on Dec. 4, 2004, in Washington, D.C. For many years, until 2005, he was the host of the annual event celebrating the performing arts.
Walter Cronkite promotes a New Year's Day concert, marking the 20th year that the retired CBS anchorman and a classical music enthusiast hosted the American broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic's annual concert.
Journalist Walter Cronkite poses with the Golden Medal of the City of Vienna, Monday, Jan. 3, 2000, at Vienna's city hall. Cronkite received the award for presenting the first Austrian New Year's concert in the U.S. in 1982.
Talk show host Larry King, left, actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., second from left, broadcaster Walter Cronkite and "60 Minutes" producer Don Hewitt, far right, are shown together at a gala for the newly renamed Museum of Television and Radio at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on Thursday, April 12, 1991.
Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite testifies Feb. 20, 1991, in Washington, D.C., before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs concerning the Pentagon rules on media access to the Persian Gulf War. Cronkite said military escorts in the gulf are having a chilling effect on reporter's work.
Veteran newsman Walter Cronkite acknowledges a standing ovation from the audience at the 18th annual CableACE Awards show Saturday, Nov. 16, 1996, in Los Angeles. Cronkite presented the Governor's Award that went to John S. Hendricks of the Discovery Channel.
Retired news anchor Walter Cronkite and his wife, Betsy, arrive at the annual White House Correspondents' dinner May 4, 2002, in Washington, D.C.