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Transcript: Walter Cronkite, The Nation's Narrator, Dies At 92
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- July 17, 2009
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MADELEINE BRAND
NPR All Things Considered
07-17-2009
Walter Cronkite, The Nation's Narrator, Dies At 92
Host: MADELEINE BRAND
Time 21:00-22:00 PM
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MADELEINE BRAND, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Madeleine Brand.
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
And I'm Robert Siegel.
There are newscasters, there are anchormen and then there was Walter Cronkite. The journalist who was known as the most trusted man in America died this evening at the age of 92.
For nearly two decades at CBS News, Cronkite told tens of millions of Americans: That's the way it is. And in the most contentious of times, Americans believed in his fairness, even if a perfect objectivity was something he did ...