# Happy 90th, Walter Cronkite.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-90th-walter-cronkite/379249>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 6, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-90th-walter-cronkite/379249 "2006-11-06T03:29:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-90th-walter-cronkite/379249/1 "2006-11-06T03:29:30Z")

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Okay, his birthday was yesterday. I forgot. So happy belated birthday, Walter Cronkite.

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**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-90th-walter-cronkite/379249/2 "2006-11-06T03:35:27Z")

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The day Cronkite retired, in 1981, my father took pictures of the TV screen.

I’m only 39, but I’m having a “you young’uns don’t know what it was like” moment. The man was a giant.

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**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-90th-walter-cronkite/379249/3 "2006-11-06T10:13:26Z")

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I still miss seeing him deliver the news.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-90th-walter-cronkite/379249/4 "2006-11-07T03:03:50Z")

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[QUOTE=Caprese]  
I still miss seeing him deliver the news.  
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I was a bit young to watch him, and I didn’t really start watching news until I was an adolescent. But I do remember him covering the Apollo missions. And I remember, ‘And that’s the way is; Monday, November 6th, 1972.’