Cronkite was an anchor and Managing Editor of CBS Evening News from 1962-1981.
Cronkite swayed the outcome of the Vietnam War in 1968 by declaring it unwinnable.
He made Watergate a nightly theme on his newscast, the relentless repetition of which was used by the left to topple Republican President Richard Nixon.
Since retirement, he has advocated many liberal causes, including a single world government and the end of U.S. veto power in the United Nations.
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Cronkite lost an election for president of his University of Texas freshman class to a high-school friend, Joe Greenhill, who later became chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
He called University of Oklahoma football games for an Oklahoma City radio station in 1937.
As a correspondent for UPI during World War II, he parachuted into the Netherlands with the 101st Airborne Division. Also landed in Normandy on D-day and flew on bombing missions over Germany.
Was the first TV-news personality to be called an "anchor," when he headed CBS's coverage of the 1952 political conventions.
He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981; inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1985; received numerous awards for broadcast journalism, including multiple Emmys and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award.
In the Netherlands (he is of Dutch ancestry) and Sweden, news anchors were sometimes known as "Cronkiters."
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