CBS Evening News (West Coast) - 2009-07-17 - Cronkite death
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[0:00] This is I both from CBS News.
[0:03] From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently
[0:05] official, President Kennedy died at 1:00
[0:09] p.m. Central Standard Time.
[0:12] Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has
[0:15] landed.
[0:17] What?
[0:17] Okay, we're going to be busy.
[0:18] For it seems now more certain than ever
[0:21] that the bloody experience of Vietnam is
[0:23] to end in a stalemate.
[0:25] Tonight, the most trusted man in America
[0:28] has died.
[0:30] Good evening from the CBS News Control
[0:32] Center in New York. This is Walter
[0:34] Cronkite.
[0:34] Words do you have trouble pronouncing?
[0:37] You can laugh over it. Oh, that's the
[0:38] way it is.
[0:39] Sardonic, that's the way it is. And or
[0:42] or sad, well, that's the way it is.
[0:45] And that's the way it is. Thursday,
[0:46] January 15th, 1981, the 439th
[0:50] day of captivity for those American
[0:52] hostages in Iran.
[0:54] Tonight, the way it was, remembering
[0:57] Walter Cronkite.
[1:00] This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[1:03] Couric.
[1:06] For one last time, the voice of Walter
[1:08] Cronkite introduces this broadcast. Good
[1:11] evening, everyone. We are sorry to tell
[1:13] you, if you haven't heard by now, that
[1:15] our friend and colleague died today. He
[1:17] was 92. His unmistakable, unforgettable
[1:21] voice brought generations of Americans
[1:23] some of the most momentous events of the
[1:25] 20th century. From the tragic
[1:27] assassination of a president to the
[1:29] triumphant landing on the moon,
[1:32] television news came of age with Walter
[1:35] Cronkite in the anchor chair.
[1:38] And that's the way it is. That's the way
[1:39] it is. And that's the way it is. That's
[1:41] the way it is.
[1:42] For half a century, Walter Cronkite told
[1:45] it the way it was, delivering t