Walter Cronkite, the nation's "most trusted man", died Friday evening. This beloved voice that has brought us the news from his extensive career ranging from the Apollo 11 launch and the land on the moon all the way to the Kennedy assassination and to the present. he began his news media career as a high school student in Houston, to his tenure at The University of Texas, all the way to the national stage as an anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News in the early 1960's. Even though Cronkite only managed a brief stint in Austin and the University of Texas he stated that he visited Austin "as often as I can but not often enough." This is just a small tribute to the "most trusted man in America" but also to an incredible figure in American History. (http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/2009/07/18/0718highlights.html)
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