Transcript: Walter Cronkite, America's 'Most Trusted Man,' Dead

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SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
07-18-2009
Walter Cronkite, America's 'Most Trusted Man,' Dead

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This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. The most trusted man in America has died. That's a factually verifiable lead. Walter Cronkite, the face of CBS News in its greatest days and the definitive anchorman, died last night at his apartment in New York. He was 92.

He saw Americans through assassinations, wars and moon shots. For nearly two decades, tens of millions of Americans tuned in to watch him deliver the nightly news with his famous signoff: That's the way it is. NPR's David Folkenflik has this ...

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