Walter Cronkite - Walter Cronkite was born in November 4th in the year 1916 in saint Joseph in Missouri. His mother was Helen Lena who was born in 1892 and died in 1993 while his father was Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite who was born in 1893 and died in 1973 and worked as a dentist.

Walter Cronkite CBS News Early life Walter Cronkite was born in November 4th in the year 1916 in saint Joseph in Missouri. His mother was Helen Lena who was born in 1892 and died in 1993 while his father was Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite who was born in 1893 and died in 1973 and worked as a dentist. Before his family moved to Houston Texas, they used to live in Kansas City in Missouri where he was born. His early school life was mostly spent in Lanier junior high school and later on joined San Jacinto high school. At a tender age Cronkite took interest in media as he was the school paper’s editor. He later joined the University of Texas at Austin where he worked on the daily Texas. Cronkite Career In 1935 Cronkite dropped out of college and immediately started his own series of newspaper which mostly dealt with reporting sports as well as any other news. His first broadcasting job was with the WKY which was based in Oklahoma. In 1936 while working as a sport announcer with KCMO Cronkite also meet his future wife (Mary Elizabeth) that same year. While broadcasting Cronkite didn’t use his name but instead he used Walter Wilcox as his broadcasting name. During the world war, he was among the top journalist covering all that was happening and this propelled his fame to even greater heights. When traveled to Europe as well as northern Africa so as to cover the world war. He was also among the elite eight journalists chosen to be present by the United States army during the bombing of Germany by the United States air force. After the world war Walter Cronkite went to serve as the main united press in Moscow for duration of about two years. Career at the CBS Cronkite join CBS in the year of 1950 just when the television station was at its early stages. He first began by doing a fifteen minutes anchor on late Sunday evenings news called Up to the Minute but later he went ahead to do what’s my line that aired at 11.00pm. He anchored that program for over ten years until the time when he was replaced by both Roger Mudd and Robert Trout but he later return to the screens since the two couldn’t do a good job as he did. Also while still in CBS, Cronkite hosted a news event game show named its news to me as well as hosted the morning show.