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

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

His legacy lives on here at  the ASU Cronkite  School of Journalism  in 
Phoenix.
 
As well as being an engineer, I am also a  journalist... and Walter 
Cronkite is the person  we always  considered the  stand bearer when it  came to 
how a journalist should  act...
 
He is missed by all of us.
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/17/2009 6:22:48 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
ted at quadvideotapegroup.com writes:

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_ (mailto:ted at quadvideotapegroup.com) 






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