alter Cronkite, American news reporter, died on July 17, 2009, aged 92. Walter Cronkite will be private funeral services on Thursday at St. Bartholomew Church in New York.
He will be cremated and buried by the end of his wife, Betsy, in Kansas City, Missouri. Memorial will be held - possibly on Saturday, but the date is still to be decided - in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. If you would like to leave a memorial, please leave a comment below. Walter Cronkite was known as "the most trusted man in America." Its obvious cause of death was cerebral vascular disease. Walter Cronkite appeared on CBS Evening News for two decades until 1981. Walter Cronkite was the first news reporter to be referred to as "baton." In this role he won numerous awards, including DePont prize, a gold medal at the International Radio and Television Society journalist George Polk Award and William Allen White Award for Journalistic Merit. For many Americans Walter Cronkite was the person associated with them they said about the death of President Kennedy, landing on the moon, and the war in Vietnam. "And this is the way it is"
