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Mini Bio (1). Walter Cronkite was born on November 4, 1916 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA as Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. He is known for his work on Fail Safe (2000), You Are There (1953) and The Twentieth Century (1957).He was married to Mary Elizabeth Betsy Maxwell.ather of Kathy Cronkite and Chip Cronkite. In 1997, released his autobiography, A Reporter's Life, which coincided with a two-hour TV special, Cronkite Remembers (1997), in which he reminisced about his years as a reporter. A week later, an eight-hour version aired on The Discovery Channel.
Media eulogies for Walter Cronkite -- including from progressive commentators -- rarely talk about his coverage of the Vietnam War before 1968.This obit omit is essential to the myth of Cronkite as a courageous truth-teller.But facts are facts, and history is history -- including what Cronkite actually did as TV's most influential journalist during the first years of the Vietnam War.ALTER CRONKITE: We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders both in Vietnam and Washington to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds.. SOLOMON: In early 1968, Walter Cronkite told CBS viewers that the war couldn't be won..