Volume 11 , Issue 29

Looking Back ... That's The Way It Was

Remember this quote that a CBS news anchorman used to sign-off with, "That?s the way it is?"

Walter Cronkite was the voice of news that no one has been able to duplicate. A trusted and honored news man, Cronkite was born in 1916, the same era of my mother, Vada Paris (November 11, 1916), and Uncle Bob McGill (August 23, 1916).

Cronkite was the news anchor for whom the term "anchorman" was born. Walter Cronkite (November 4, 1916 - July 17, 2009) dominated the television news industry during one of the most volatile periods of American history. He broke the news of the Kennedy assassination, reported extensively on Vietnam and Civil Rights and Watergate, and seemed to be the very embodiment of TV journalism. They say, "Cronkite set the standard by which all others have been judged."

Walter Leland Cronkite was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on November 4, 1916, the only child of a dentist father and homemaker mother. When he was still young, his family moved to Texas. One day, he read an article in "Boys Life" magazine about the adventures of reporters working around the world. Young Cronkite was hooked. He began working on his high school newspaper and yearbook.

In 1933, he entered the University of Texas at Austin to study political science, economic and journalism. He never graduated. He took a part time job at the Houston Post, left college to do what he loved: report.

That's the way it was!
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