CBS News - Walter Cronkite death - 2009-07-17
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[0:00] oh
[0:00] don't you what happened
[0:08] [Music]
[0:16] this is a CBS News special report I'm
[0:19] Katie Couric good evening it is my sad
[0:22] duty to tell you that our friend and
[0:24] colleague Walter Cronkite has died he
[0:27] was 92 and passed away peacefully
[0:29] tonight here in New York Walter became
[0:31] anchor here at CBS when television news
[0:34] was in its infancy and brought
[0:36] generations of Americans the most
[0:38] momentous events of the second half of
[0:40] the 20th century from the assassination
[0:43] of a president to a man's landing on the
[0:46] moon
[0:47] and that's the way it is that's the way
[0:49] it is and that's the way it is that's
[0:51] the way it is for half a century Walter
[0:54] Cronkite told it the way it was
[0:56] delivering the news straight and
[0:58] unvarnished evening everyone here is the
[1:00] news among the Pioneers who built
[1:02] television news from the ground up he
[1:04] forged a special bond with audiences
[1:07] trustworthy plain spoken unflappable an