NEW YORK — Legendary television broadcaster Walter Cronkite died Friday at his New York City home. He was 92.
The iconic newsman’s death was confirmed by CBS vice president Linda Mason, who told The Associated Press that Cronkite was surrounded by his family when he died at 7:42 p.m. ET.
Cronkite was often referred to as “the most trusted man in America.” He anchored the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981, a period in which he covered such historic events as: the Cuban missile crisis; the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the Vietnam War; the Apollo moon landing; and Watergate.
His final “CBS Evening News” broadcast on March 6, 1981 included his signature sign-off — “and that’s the way it is.”
“I had a pretty good seat at the parade,” he once said of the era that he covered. “I was lucky enough to have been born at the right time to see most of this remarkable century.”
Cronkite’s wife, Betsy (Mary Elizabeth Maxwell), proceeded him in death in 2005. The couple had three children: daughters Nancy and Kathy, and son Walter III. Cronkite also had four grandchildren.
