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

[Dave Sieg]

I have a 3/4" off-air recording of Walter's last nightly newscast.Its quite
a time capsule!

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Ted Langdell <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>wrote:

> 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."
>
>
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