Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr., (born 1916) was an American journalist and radio and television news broadcaster who became preeminent among the outstanding group of correspondents and commentators developed by CBS News after World War II. Walter Cronkite...

Walter Cronkite's 19-year tenure as anchorman of the CBS Evening News was an uncanny match of man and era. Two generations of Americans came to rely upon his presence in the CBS television anchor chair in times of war and crisis, scandal and...

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (born November 4 1916) is a retired iconic American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for The CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1970s and 1980s he was often cited in...

At last night’s 10th Annual Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award Gala, held 64 stories above the street in Rockefeller Center’s Rainbow Room, Mr. Cronkite was talking about the role of religion in the upcoming presidential election. (It was also the eve of televangelist...

Earlier this week, The Observer reported on newsman godhead Walter Cronkite's $4.275 million sale of a townhouse at 160 East 95th Street. Walter “Chip” Cronkite III, who lived in the house with his actress-wife Deborah Rush (they were on the sales deed as well), returned...

Former President Carter, who already has a book coming out this fall about his post-White House years, is working on a memoir about his mother, Lillian, to be published next spring by Simon & Schuster."Jimmy Carter has inspired millions. Its a great opportunity to meet...

After more than 6,500 episodes of "The Price Is Right," it was Bob Barker's turn to "Come on down."House Speaker Rod Jetton and Barry Bennett, a former radio broadcaster who now works for Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, couldn't resist the opportunity to repeat the famed...