Walter Cronkite's Life and Career in Pictures

Walter Cronkite television anchor news reporter newsman
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Vietnam
Cronkite reported on many of the critical events of the sixties. He delivered the news of JFK's death, cheered the space program and traveled to Vietnam, above, where he ultimately concluded that the American war effort was hopeless and doomed.

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