"Old anchormen, you see, never die. They just keep coming back for more."

I watched him back in the day. He was my favorite news anchor. I actually cried on the night of his last broadcast. I know silly kid. RIP Sir.

You can tell he just wants to cry but he doesn't. What a man. What a professional.

When news was news. Goodnight, Uncle Walter.

The last of the good (and honest) reporters of our time . He got a lot of practice talking on the HAM radio too , him and Barry Goldwater

I miss hearing his voice and listening to him. He was a great guy, and that's the way it is.

Damn this was powerful. 40 year old clip and it still brought a tear to my eye

He gave me the inspiration to go into journalism. Thank you Walter.

When Walter said ' That's the way it is." That's the way it was.

When news was a 30-60 minute snapshot of the days events , not the 24 hour ongoing trilogy of stories that slowly morph into one another by the mundane butter heads that litter today's "news channels"

The most trusted man in America. I loved that guy and America lost a true American Hero when he passed on in 2009. Never again will we learn to trust what we hear on TV or radio like we did when WC made CBS Evening News the most watched regularly scheduled news broadcast in the world. And that's the way it is.

The Best Newscaster Of All Time A Class Act! RIP Walter Cronkite!

Happy 100th, Walter.

Our whole family loved and trusted this man. Don't think anyone ever had a bad word to say about him. He is still missed.

I like the way he did it, no sappy words, no tears. Just a very professional man, doing what he did best...being a great professional news anchor. It was before my time, but my dad said that he was one of the, if not the best news anchors of all time. After watching some of his archive footage, I have a hard time disagreeing with that. He always came across as very genuine and actually giving a damn about what happens in this country. These days? Eh, not so much.

Walter Cronkite was a trusted American in the homes of all of America. I would not believe a president. I would not believe a senator. I would not believe a priest. And if mom said it, we'd have to verify it. But if Uncle Walter said something we knew it came from the bottom of his heart and he had checked and re-checked it. And we believed him. I long for the next trusted person this national can believe in.

R.I.P. Walter Cronkite

Loved him, what an icon. Long live the 60s and the 70s.

Uncle Walter always had class and integrity. His signoff had great class. His special programs were excellent. I just recently read his autobiography. Quite a life. He got to do some very interesting things during his active career and after his retirement.

He kept America informed but in a way that was calming. collected ..professional ..had that voice that made you listen...a proud man...a caring soul...R I.P.

He reported the news. that is all he did. he didnt add his political leanings to it. he didnt whine or complain about it. he just did the news. i respect that. he was the last true journalist this country ever had. what has come since then is not news but entertainment, ideology, indoctrination and mostly unamerican.

He must be an extraordinary man. To project such hope and reassurance when telling us about some of the most horrible things in history is a gift. He's got a "Mister Rogers" quality about him!

little had I known whenever i pretended to be someone from early 60's-90's america I was impersonatig this man. famous voice, amazing journalist. RIP

I wish our generation had news reporters like this.

1/9/20. We need this man more than ever.

I remember this. It was one of my 1st memories. My parents used to watch CBS evening news every night. Bits and pieces until about 1982, I was born in late 77.

Mr. Cronkite has a similar speaking tone to Walt Disney. I love that he is very sincere, and he really cared about his audience a ton. I'm so thankful he was more professional than most news anchors/talkshow hosts nowadays.

R.I.P. Walter Cronkite (1916-2009).

The most trusted name ever in broadcast news

We don’t have news casters like Walter Cronkite, he reported the news, and didn’t have any bias! One of the legends of news broadcasts!

goodbye walter,we love you.

Total class. Sorely missed in this day & age.

One of the finest evening news anchorman in history!

A distinguished gentleman void of his own personal commentary yet poetic and factual in his news deliverance

"And thats the way it is"....Walters famous sign off .......when news was news

I am a Korean living in S.Korea. When I was a freshman, I chose journalism as a liberal arts subject, and then the professor lectured on Walter Cronkite's news clips. This is the greatness of Walter Cronkite.

Before fake news. He would be appalled at the state of news today. God bless him. We need his ilk today.

When I spoke with him at a symposium at Arkansas State University in the 90's, he admitted leaving when he did, at age 65 as CBS wanted, was a giant mistake. He wanted to stay, and he should have. Rather held the job longer, but since then, that job's been a revolving door.

THE G.OA.T ( GREATEST OF ALL TIME)

Look at the like to dislike ratio.. 1.5k to 37! That's why Cronkite was the most trusted man in America

No newsman today can touch the late and great Walker Cronkite miss your style and great voice RIP.

Cronkite was born here in my hometown (St. Joseph, MO). The local University has a specific wing dedicated to him and has all his Emmys displayed (11 of them, he won 12 and one of them has been lost and never found). I remember as a little boy in the '60s my dad pulling up in the driveway from work at a local factory he worked at for 20 years. My mom and him had 7 of us (I was #6) and I was the only child to watch CBS evening news with my dad, my sitting on the couch, him laying down from a hard day's work with his shoes off, feet laid on my thighs and his feet stinking so bad because he wore thin black nylon socks his entire life. He'd be so exhausted that he would always nod off during the news and I didn't want to budge knowing he worked so hard and would only get up from dozing off to work around the house and/or on the cars and/or the yard until very late at night, darn near every night (he had sleep apnea from a throat wound he sustained in WW II that prevented him from sleeping much and he was always awake and working on something since he didn't sleep much (besides smoking his non-filtered Chesterfield cigarettes to keep him going). What I remember most from the news was seeing footage for years of the Vietnam War, which seemed to be the top story almost every night in the '60s on the CBS evening news. As a boy of 5yrs old up until the age of 12, I found watching the footage from that war difficult to understand and take in mentally, almost like it wasn't real to me. Walter's reporting was one-of-a-kind, and he even resembled my old man (who was born and raised in Ukraine).

Walter Cronkite was a great man as an anchorman and he is the greatest news anchor of all time. And I love his sign off phrase “and that’s the way it is.” This is why I decided to use that for conversations.

I remember his departure from the evening news. I was only 15, but could remember watching him for over 10 years. I remember watching Dan Rather, thinking it wasn't the same. Whether Cronkite deserved America's trust is an open question, but in a real way he did have it, more than any major news figure would ever have again in America to this day. The difference between now and then could hardly be more stark.

Old Newsman Walter Cronkite Will Not Be Forgotten. RIP

It’s weird, as a young man in my early 20’s when he retired in 1981, after dinner I always watched the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. I would not go out until I watched his broadcast. It was my ritual. Watching Uncle Walter then watching the Mets on WOR Channel 9 in N.Y.

"And that's the way it is..." "Good night Chet, good night David, and good night from NBC news." How well I remember...

Legend. You could believe what he said. Unlike today.

Back when news was news, not news like we have now.

Back when journalism had integrity and class.

💛I grew up watching him & was always amazed with his tone of voice & admired his composure & eloquence. 💛

The greatest broadcaster of all time.

Walter Cronkite will be sadly missed by us all

A sad epilogue to this was that the entire set was demolished to build Dan Rather's new set immediately after Walter left the room bound for a farewell party on a lower floor. Nobody thought he would go back up one last time to his desk, but he did. Apparently, he left very quickly after seeing his work site completely torn apart.

I swear my dad lived for the 630 news. As a kid i always liked You Are there. And that's the way it was and you are there.

When news was news. Not fake news, not real news, but simply news.

I would give anything to go back and live for a week in those times, things were so genuine then.

One of the best send offs of all times!

Walter Cronkite always a professional forever humble he is missed

Recently, this in a way has been more relevant than ever. All of the KZfaqrs we’ve grown up with seem to be retiring, and leaving their viewers with great memories. Walter Cronkite had that same impact with people who watched him on CBS News. For decades, many grew up watching Walter Cronkite and were sad to see him retire as the main anchorman. I’m 21, and I have a hard time believing that 2014 was a decade ago. Time is indeed an enemy.

2022 and he is still an Immortal Legend

When the news was giving straight without bias, Walter Cronkite was the news anchor I grew up with.

This man was in his 60's in 1981! And this broadcast happened 12 years (minus one day) before I was born!

I loved his reference to Douglas MacArthur... old anchormen don’t fade away 😂

I remember him well Great newscaster

I wasn’t born at the time but he will always be remembered for his amazing strength of emotion the day jfk died he held back his tears so bad what a legend

I loved this man !

One of the greatest anchors ever.

damn he was the best news person, ever as of today in my opinion

He was the "man" no one could replace him It would be nice to have him back miss that man 😥

LEGEND

I loved watching Walter Cronkite every evening. He is missed. No one today could fill his shoes. And that's the way it is.

The epitome of greatness

He was the man with Barbara Walters... I am now 55 and I remember them around 10 to 14 years of age... now 2023 they're missed. Both powerful news anchors that got and give us the world news with precision.

Cronkite, Brokaw and Jennings In that Order The real “big three”

Gave me chills

Boy, do I mis this man. Peace be with you Walter.

This is the kind of news you need . Not 24 hour water torture news , with phony news and bias . You ONLY needed a hour ! I used to watch this everyday !

I saw this final broadcast live, and like then, I get a lump in my throat.

Watched this gentleman ad a kid and always thought he sounded comforting. The news is not comforting now. I guess because I understand things better now. “Those were the days!”

He was definitely one of the best. I always looked forward to when he signed off each night. May you R.I P. Uncle Walter. 3/19/2024

He definitely was America's favorite teddy bear that we would all tune in to watch every night. A great journalist!

Freshman in college at the time, watched this in a packed TV lounge in the student union. There was a standing ovation for him as he signed off.

He was the last of the greatest journalist

We still need Walter Cronkite!

i grew up watching him he delivered all my news no Facebook back then! he was trustworthy and dependable

"And that's the way it is" Walter Cronkite Our Beloved Grandmother never missed the evening news with Walter Cronkite from 1960s-80s

"... I'll be away on assignment ..." Cronkite loved his sailboat, especially in the last half decade of his career as CBS Evening News anchor. The President of CBS News wanted him to name the thing "On Assignment," so that when he took a day off, his fill-in could say "Walter Cronkite is 'On Assignment'"

REAL NEWS and that's the way it was.

Legendary: Cronkite, Huntley, Brinkley, Jennings, and Reynolds. Legend that I concede: Tom Brokaw - I could not stand his pompous voice but that's me. Everyone loves him and he is a legend. Honorable mention: Koppel - yeah he did not anchor the evening news. But he created a new category of late news where his brilliant questions helped bring leaders together and solved world problems. Koppel was pure genius. Next tier: Chancellor wonderful human being but dull on air. Infamous legend, the Nixon of anchors, Dan Rather. He was always a reporter but hardly an anchor.

The iconic and legendary Mr Cronkite

Dan Rather may have been on longer! But Cronkite was a man who was loved by all! R.I.P. Walter!

I'll always remember his reaction to Kennedy's assignation. At that moment, he wasn't a TV presenter, he was just an American telling the nation the news that the president was dead. He really felt the same shock and sadness the rest of the nation did. It was a very poignant moment.

WC was simply the best...to understand true journalism, is to understand Walter Cronkite...

I always tear up when I watch this. A legendary news anchor. Would we have more of them in this madness....On the rare occasions when he offered his opinion, he was heard. Lyndon Johnson on Cronkite's, "(Vietnam) at best a stalemate"- "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost the country." And he didn't run again. A mar on an otherwise superb administration.

“If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” President Lyndon Johnson said that about Walter Cronkite. He did the most to end the Vietnam war than anyone else...

The greatest newscaster who ever lived. No one can or will ever reach his standard.

"Most trusted man in America"

The greatest tv newsman ever r.i.p uncle walter.

Walter Cronkite! A class act. Never be another one! RIP Walter!