# RIP Walter Cronkite **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395 "2009-07-18T00:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/1 "2009-07-18T00:36:01Z")
From [cnn.com](http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/17/walter.cronkite.dead/index.html). **Moderator note:** I merged in a separate thread that was originally in MPSIMS. If the chronology of the posts seems a little wonky, that’s what happened. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/2 "2009-07-18T00:38:10Z")
A class act all the way and the end of an era. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/3 "2009-07-18T00:38:32Z")
You beat me to it. Just announced on BBC TV. RIP, Walter. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/4 "2009-07-18T00:43:56Z")
CBS Apollo 11 live coverage of the landing, with commentary from Walter. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sWmD6NvMY) RIP. To the stars! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/5 "2009-07-18T00:43:56Z")
There was just a recent thread on the fact that he was very ill. Sorry to hear about his death - he was truly a class act, and a piece of television history has died with him. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/6 "2009-07-18T00:44:45Z")
Wow, another death this week where I was like, “He was still alive?” I thought McNamara and Cronkite were long dead. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/7 "2009-07-18T00:52:35Z")
Truly a legend. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/8 "2009-07-18T00:57:25Z")
[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/17/eveningnews/main5170556.shtml](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/17/eveningnews/main5170556.shtml) Apparently he’d been ill for some time. And it strikes me as tremendously unfair that he died just three days short of the 40th anniversary of one of the most amazing - and positive - broadcasts he ever got to make. That’s the way it is, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/9 "2009-07-18T01:00:26Z")
[Scooped.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=524923) ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/10 "2009-07-18T01:00:37Z")
It really is sad, but not unexpected. I respected him as a newscaster. (Isn’t this supposed to be in Cafe Society?) ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/11 "2009-07-18T01:00:46Z")
☹ He stopped news broadcasting long before I started paying attention to it, but I’ve learned a lot about his character and demeanor from my studies. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/12 "2009-07-18T01:02:07Z")
Weird. I just mentioned him in a GQ thread not 2 hours ago, not knowing he’d passed away. They don’t make em like that anymore. And that’s the way it is. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/13 "2009-07-18T01:02:09Z")
And that’s the way it was. RIP, Mr. Cronkite. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/14 "2009-07-18T01:03:55Z")
Cronkite was probably the media’s biggest space buff. A damned shame that he died just before the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/15 "2009-07-18T01:11:35Z")
The last voice I trusted on a newscast. RIP, Walter. You were one of the good ones. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/16 "2009-07-18T01:12:48Z")
Damn. I was hoping he would have made it past the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/17 "2009-07-18T01:20:27Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > CBS Apollo 11 live coverage of the landing, with commentary from Walter. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g\_sWmD6NvMY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sWmD6NvMY) > > RIP. > > To the stars! One of my earliest memories. I was three years old. He was the gold standard for television news. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/18 "2009-07-18T01:25:26Z")
Arguably the best-known voice in TV news for many decades. You never felt you were being spoon-fed the network version of things. He was a journalist in every sense of the word. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/19 "2009-07-18T01:34:26Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > A class act all the way and the end of an era. ☹ Yes. But one could say, not without a certain melancholy, that the era had ended some time back, and he was more a living memorial to it. Once upon a time, there was someone on TV who was called “the most trusted man in America”… Today, never mind TV… whoever the hell anywhere do we trust at all… ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/20 "2009-07-18T01:48:30Z")
He lived to be 96 or something, so he had a good long life. Farewell, Mr. Cronkite. You were the gold standard. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395.md?page=2)