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Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, &#; July 17, ) was an Americannewsreporter. He was the anchor of CBS News from to Important events he reported included when PresidentJohn F. Kennedy was assassinated. He reported the Apollo 11 moon landing. He also reported on the Watergate scandal, which led to President Richard Nixon resigning from his position. He was often called "the most trusted man in America." People across the country tuned in nightly to hear his coverage of the Vietnam War as it progressed.

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is named after Walter Cronkite.

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Cronkite was born on November 4, in St. Joseph, Missouri. He studied at the University of Texas at Austin. In he left school to work for the Houston Post.^[1] He later worked for several midwestern radio stations. In World War II he was a war correspondent for United Press International