Editor’s note: This story was originally published on March 6, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 6, 1981, Walter Cronkite signed off for the ...

Walter Cronkite – known in his time as “The Most Trusted Man In America” and “Uncle Walter” who shared the news with America in their living rooms each night – is dead at 92, after a long life and one ...

Cronkite was the face of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Friday, March 6, 1981, Walter Cronkite did his last broadcast as anchorman for the CBS Evening News. During his 19 years as ...

Walter Cronkite was the the most serious of serious journalists. The former CBS anchorman cared not just about the next story but about the future of reporting in a country where was known for the ...

NEW YORK -- Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks’ golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called “the most trusted man in America,” has ...

NEW YORK -- Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died ...