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Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. ^[2][3][4] was an American broadcast journalist,

best known as
anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1970s and 1980s, he was often cited in viewer opinion polls as "the most trusted man in America" because of his professional experience and kindly demeanor.^[5][6] Cronkite died on July 17, 2009 at the age of 92 from cerebrovascular disease^[7], described by his son as complications from Dementia^[8].

(November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)

Cronkite was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of Helen Lena (née Fritsche) and Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite, a dentist.^[9][10] He had remote Dutch ancestry on his father's side, the family surname originally being Krankheyt.^[11]

Cronkite lived in Kansas City, Missouri until he was ten, when his family moved to Houston, Texas.^[9] He attended junior high school at Lanier Junior High School (now Lanier Middle School) and high school at San Jacinto High School where he edited the high school newspaper.^[1] He was a member of the Boy Scouts. He attended college at The University of Texas at Austin, where he worked on The Daily Texan, and became a member of the Nu chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity.^[12][1] He also was a member of the Houston chapter of DeMolay, a Masonic fraternal organization for boys. It was while attending the University of Texas that Cronkite had his first taste of performance appearing in a play with fellow students Eli Wallach and Ann Sheridan.

Cronkite died on July 17, 2009 at his home in New York City, at the age of 92. He is believed to have died from cerebral vascular disease.^[40]