Walter Cronkite Walter Cronkite Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the "CBS Evening News" for 19 years (1962–1981). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy,
2009 flu pandemic in Australia Territory has recorded two deaths and 920 confirmed cases by 28 August 2009. Two of the earliest casualties contracted the disease while on the Pacific Dawn cruise ship. The first death in the ACT occurred on 28 July 2009. During the last week of July 2009, Radford College's year 12 cohort was asked to stay home, after a spike of influenza through the year. There have been 27 confirmed deaths in Western Australia. The first person to die in the state was a 26-year-old woman who died on 26 June 2009. A 26-year-old Western Australian man died in Adelaide on