Comments on: Cronkite and ASU http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/07/17/cronkite-and-asu/ suffering under the sun Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: DLC http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/07/17/cronkite-and-asu/comment-page-1/#comment-7434 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:56:56 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/cronkite-and-asu/#comment-7434 I remember well Cronkite reporting on Apollo 11′s landing on the moon in july 1969.
Fulfilling President Kennedy’s promise to go to the moon in this decade.
In many ways, Cronkite was one of our last “newsmen” — a breed apart from the plastic-faced powdered presenters we have now.

]]> By: Crudely Wrott http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/07/17/cronkite-and-asu/comment-page-1/#comment-7390 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:55:56 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/cronkite-and-asu/#comment-7390 In retrospect much of what I know of the twentieth century was either first introduced to me or further explained to me by Uncle Walt.

I remember being the only one in the house watching the CBS Evening News when I was only nine or ten. Walter spoke directly to me with an authority that assumed nothing more than my ability to understand. Rarely did he introduce his own feelings and then only about a subject that had the attention of everyone. Like JFK’s assassination or the Apollo moon mission or the Nam.

Thank you, Mr. Cronkite.

And goodbye

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