Walter Cronkite's final appearance on the CBS Evening News
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[0:00] And Walter Cronkite
[0:02] 50 years at CBS News.
[0:10] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:13] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:15] headquarters in New York.
[0:17] >> Good evening.
[0:20] Finally tonight, a milestone for an
[0:22] American institution. He's still
[0:24] working, books, speeches, documentaries.
[0:28] But it was 50 years ago this week that
[0:30] Walter Cronkite joined CBS News and
[0:33] became the narrator and reporter for a
[0:36] half century of history.
[0:38] >> I'm just back from the biggest
[0:40] assignment that any American reporter
[0:42] could have so far in this war.
[0:44] >> He came to CBS already a veteran
[0:46] reporter who'd covered World War II for
[0:48] the United Press.
[0:50] >> Hello everyone, here we are again.
[0:51] >> Just 2 years later, he was setting the
[0:54] stage for a new kind of television
[0:56] coverage at the 1952 political
[0:58] conventions.
[0:59] >> I think that's the proudest moments that
[1:02] I had in those early days was to be able
[1:05] to pioneer television coverage of the
[1:08] political conventions and the
[1:09] presidential elections.
[1:10] >> Give me in brief what you think is is
[1:12] the major difference between the
[1:15] conventions of 1952
[1:17] and the conventions of the 21st century.
[1:20] >> There is no semblance betwe