When I worked at a radio station in Connecticut (before I worked in traffic, I was the receptionist/sales assistant), the GM was close, personal friends with Cronkite. One day, the phone rang and when I picked it up, I heard, “Tell (him) Cronkite’s on the phone.”
The GM had worked for CBS prior to his stint in radio and knew quite a few of the classic newscasters. Charles Osgood swung by late one afternoon, but it was Cronkite I wanted to meet.
I never did, but I did talk to him. Or listened to him, at any rate.
Walter Cronkite’s passing is the end of an era, even for me, who mainly remembers his presence throughout the the Iran hostage crisis and the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.
- Walter Cronkite, an American icon
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