What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times… and you were there.
– Walter Cronkite, narrating
He informed my youth with You Are There (1953 — 1957). I saw every show.
He informed my adulthood, reporting on six US Presidents from Kennedy to Reagan.
Where were you when John F. Kennedy was assassinated? I was in the Wisconsin Student Union watching Walter Cronkite report the sad news.
From John Glenn’s first flight in 1962 to the first lunar landing in 1969, Walter Cronkite narrated history as it unfolded.
In 2006, he played drums with Mickey Hart on Earth Day in New York…
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