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Obituary: Walter Cronkite
Cronkite was a distinguished news reporter and anchorman |
He became known as America's most trusted voice - the man who brought so many big news stories into millions of homes across the United States.
His no-holds-barred reports on the Vietnam war were said to have been instrumental in persuading President Lyndon Johnson not to seek re-election.
Walter Leland Cronkite was born in St Joseph, Missouri on 4 November 1916, the son of a dentist.
His family moved to Houston when he was 10 where he attended a local high school before going on to the University of Texas where he worked on a student newspaper, The Daily Texan.
He failed to complete his studies, dropping out in 1935 to start a series of reporting jobs with local newspapers before beginning his broadcasting career at the radio station WKY in Oklahoma City.
In 1937, he joined the agency, United Press, and, with the outbreak of World War II, found himself reporting from b