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,
Trusted Mole spells there came swimming back, brilliantly evoked in Stankovic's fresh prose...Trusted Mole is rich in comic scenes...But the comedy switchbacks with the tragedy...this man was a hero, caught in the middle and discarded by a military bureaucracy that should be shot at dawn for its betrayal." Literary Review. Mark Almond: "Now exculpated from all charges, Stankovic has written a remarkably frank account of his time in Bosnia...What "Trusted Mole" makes sickeningly clear is not just the absurdity of sending in peacekeepers with no peace to keep (and neither the weaponry nor the political backing to impose it), but also the