Walter CronkiteWalter Cronkite (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was a CBS broadcast journalist who was the anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During that time he reported such breaking events as JFK’s assassination, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Watergate scandals and the NASA landing on the moon in an extraordinary journalist career that stretched all the way back to World War II.

Generations grew up watching “Uncle Walt” on TV and many trusted him as much as a member of their own family. Walter Cronkite died at his home in New York City, New York, at the age of 92 on July 17, 2009.

And [sadly], that’s the way it is…