RIP Walter Cronkite

[caybee 21]

And the man could dance.

I don't think there's anyone left in the world whose hand I really wanted to shake.

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

Start at 5:01; 5:17 is a historic moment in history as viewers watched Walter Cronkite put on his glasses then tears and chokes up after announcing President Kennedy is confirmed dead.

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. "

"Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy."

"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."

"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."

"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."

"The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good."

"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."

"And that's the way it is."

-Walter Cronkite (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)

R.I.P.