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Obama Pays Tribute To Walter Cronkite In Memorial Service
New York, NY (AHN) – President Barack Obama joins other veteran CBS journalists and former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday in paying tribute to Walter Cronkite, an American broadcast legend who died in July at the age of 92.
Obama addresses the memorial service for him at Lincoln Center in New York City at 10:30 am ET. He previously issued a statement calling Cronkite, who was known in his heydey by the moniker “the most trusted man in America,” “was someone we could trust to guide us through the most important issues of the day; a voice of certainty in an uncertain world.”
Also attending the service will be CBS President Leslie Moonves, former network president Howard Stringe, Apollo 11 lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, and Katie Couric, who became the first woman anchor of a weekday evening news program when she took the helm at CBS Evening News in 2006.
Cronkite died on July 17, after nearly two decades of giving the nightly news during a historic period in history when the nation brought a man to the moon, saw television broadcasts in color for the first time and suffered the assassination of a president and the resignation of another. He is best remembered for his coverage of the Apollo 11 and succeeding moon landings, as well as John F. Kennedy’s death.
A broadcast pioneer and the “Most Trusted Man in America” according to Gallup, Cronkite is credited with putting the network’s weekday news program at the top of ratings until his retirement on March 6, 1981.
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