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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.
Synopsis. Walter Cronkite helped launch the CBS Evening News in 1962 and served as its news anchor until his retirement in 1981. The hallmarks of his style were honesty, impartiality and level-headedness, and âAnd that's the way it isâ was his jaunty nightly sign-off.rom the early 1960s to early 1980s, Walter Cronkite was a much admired evening news anchor on CBS, serving a reliable source of information for many Americans.