[QuadList] News icon of the Quad era passes-Walter Cronkite, EOT at 92.

[Ted Langdell]

Walter Cronkite left his CBS anchor chair in 1981 after 19 years.  
Today, after 92 years on the planet, he left us behind for a look a  
whatever adventure faces mankind at the end of our earthly presence.

Cronkite presided over what became the top ranked newscast of the  
1960's and 70's, each broadcast recorded on Quad videotape for re-feed  
across the country and for time-zone delay on the West Coast.

He took over the CBS network's daily news broadcast from Douglas  
Edwards, the first anchorman recorded on videotape.

His legacy lives on through reels of 2" Quad archived at CBS and other  
repositories, documenting and commenting on some of America's most  
historic moments in the mid-20th Century: The assassination of  
President John F. Kennedy, and the results of Kennedy's pledge to put  
a man on the moon before the end of that century's sixth decade.

During his 19 years at the helm of the CBS Evening News, Cronkite  
certainly had the chance to become the man most recorded on Quad.

One can speculate about what Cronkite's reaction was to entering his  
new form of existence.  I think he might have  echoed his summary of  
the first moonwalk just 40 years ago... "Whew!"  And then, with a wry  
tone of voice thought, "And that's the way it is."


Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

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