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'Wise Uncle' Walter Cronkite
To Take Mike At U. Hall
By SAM BARNES
CBS news anchorman
Walter Cronkite, the man
Time magazine has called
"the single most convincing
and authoritative figure in
television news," will speak
Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in
University Hall.
Mr. Cronkite, sometimes
referred to as the "reporter's
reporter," has won
international acclaim for his
skillful and often
extemporaneous narratives on
news events.
As the prime figure on CBS
"Evening News," he is regarded
by many as America's "wise
uncle."
High School Reporter
Beginning as a high school
reporter for The Houston Post,
Mr. Cronkite attended the
University of Texas from 1933
to 1935. He served as a state
capital correspondent there,
attending classes in the
morning and covering the state
legislature in the afternoon.
After graduation, Mr.
Cronkite served as a news
writer for the Scripps-Howard
Bureau and subsequently
joined United Press (UP)
working in Houston, Kansas
City, Dallas, Austin, El Paso
and New York City offices.
As a UP war correspondent
from 1942 to 1945, Mr.
CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite
accounts of the first U.S.
bombing raids over Germany.
He was one of the first
newsmen on the scene at the
Normandy invasion and was
dropped with the 101st
Airborne division into the
Netherlands.
Following World War II,
Mr. Cronkite served as a UP
foreign correspondent,
re-establishing bureaus in
Amsterdam and Brussels. He
covered the Nuremberg war
crime trials and served as UP
Bureau Manager in Moscow
during the critical post-war
years from 1946-1948.
After 11 years with UP, Mr.
Cronkite joined CBS-TV in
July, 1950. With CBS he has
covered numerous political
conventions, election
campaigns, and every manned U.S.
space mission. He serves as the
managing editor of the "CBS
Evening News with Walter
Cronkite."
Award Winner
He has also appeared in the
CBS "You Are There" series
and has moderated other CBS
series, including the "Morning
Show" (1954) and "It's News
To Me" (1954).
Mr. Cronkite has won
numerous awards for
excellence in journalism,
including the Peabody Award
(1962), the William A. White
Award for Journalistic Merit
(1969), three Emmy Awards
from the Academy of
Television Arts and Science
and the George Polk
Journalism Award (1971) for
"resisting a White House
attempt to discredit CBS News'
televised disclosure of an
atrocity at Bau Me, South
Vietnam."
Sponsored by the
University Student Legal
Forum, the appearance is open
to the public without charge.
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