 Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. November 4, 1916 July 17, 2009 aiva mutori wenhau wekuAmerica uyo akashanda semutauri we CBS Evening News kwemakore 19 1962 1981. Mumakore ekuma1960 ne1970, aiwanzonzi murume anovimbwa naye zvikuru muAmerica pashure pokunge ataurwa kudaro muongororo. Cronkite akashuma zviitiko zvakawanda kubva muna 1937 kusvika muna 1981, kusanganisira kubhomba muHondo Yenyika II; kutongwa kweNuremberg; kurwa muHondo yeVietnam; kubiwa kweDawsons Field; Watergate; Iran Hostage Crisis; uye kuurayiwa kweMutungamiri John F. Kennedy., piyona wokurwira kodzero dzevanhu Martin Luther King, Jr., uye muimbi weBeatles John Lennon. Iye aizivikanwawo nokuda kwokufukidzwa kwake kukuru kwepurogiramu yemuchadenga yeU.S., kubva paProject Mercury kusvika pakumhara paMwedzi kuenda kuSpace Shuttle. Ndiye oga asiri weNASA akagamuchira mubairo weAmbassador of Exploration. Cronkite anozivikanwa nokuda kweshoko rake rokutanga rokuti, Uye ndozvazvakaita, rinoteverwa nomusi wokuparadzira. 