Transcript: Walter Cronkite Helped Shape An Era

NEAL CONAN
NPR Talk of the Nation
07-20-2009
Walter Cronkite Helped Shape An Era

Host: NEAL CONAN
Time 14:00-15:00 PM


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Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of the moon as nearly everyone who could watch that amazing event on TV. Most, of course, watched CBS that day to hear Walter Cronkite describe it.

As you've heard, the broadcaster famously known as the most trusted man in America died in New York this past Friday. The U.S. space program was just one of his great stories. Before TV, Walter Cronkite covered D-Day. He told us of the death of President Kennedy, defied one White House over the war in Vietnam and another over ...

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