faithful gift shop after he had done a documentary. there was a woman him and behind the woman was bessie caron cite. a woman behind him sailed, you look just like walter caron cite before he died. she turned to bessie and said, he is dead, isn't he? she said, well, if he is not dead, he ought to be. dan, here we are joined once again on the news and talking about someone who is so important us to. thanks, rachel, for having me on. >> tom brokaw, thank you so much. >> rachel, thank you for having me. >> thank you for joining us tonight for our coverage of the death of walter caron cite. david shuster will have more of

our special coverage at the top of the hour. we leave you with the words of the most famous man in america. good night. >> and that's the way it is, monday, december 5th, 1977. this is walter caron cite, cbs news, good night. >> beginning from paris. >> from the great wall of china. >> reporting from mad right. >> this is walter cronkite. this is my last news. it nevertheless comes with sadness. for the last few decades we've been meeting like this.

good evening from new york. i'm david shuster in for keith olbermann. legendary newsman walter cronkite died at the age of 82. he became known as the most trutheded newsman in america. he had been suffering from kreeb ral vascular disease. caron skit's soothing image and his words became seared into america consciousness when he covered the assassination of john k. kennedy, the vietnam war and men landing on the moon. his humanity, integrity and keen intelligence the common denominator. matt lauer has more. los, texas, the flash

official. president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m., central standard time. >> walter cronkite became as important as the new we recovered. >> reporter: steady telling of our history made him the most trusted man in america. a combination of triumphs and its tragedies. >> dr. martin luther king has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee. >> he was a quintessential american. he came from the heartland. he wasn't flashy one way or the other. his reporting was straight forward. >> i fell into what i ever do naturally. >> in the hostile environment of outer space. >> born walter leland cronkite in 1916 in missouri, ways an

only child. an enterprising boy whose first job at age 7 was selling magazines. he reported for his college newspaper at the university of texas. at a local radio station where he met the love of his life. >> down the corridor, i could see her coming, the most gorgeous creature i had seen in my life. the absolute lly sensational redhead. >> he married bessie in 1940. they were parents of three children, nancy, kathy and chip. at 23, cronkite took the job where he would make his name as united service correspondent for united press covering the world war ii. >> make it snappy. >> reporter: he learned to write fast, accurate and unbiased.

cronkite accompanied bombing missions over germany and covered landing troops of germany at norm andy at d-day. after the war he covered the nourm berg trials. by 1950, a new median beckoned. the brave new world of television. edward r. murrow asked him to join cbs news. at the time testify was less reputable than radio. >> the film seems to be upside down. the young reporter at the time, television was the future. even without formal broadcast training, cronkite seemed born for the job. it wasn't always hard news. for a time he co-hosted the morning news with a puppet. in 1962 he was named anchorman

of the evening news which was 15 minutes long. >> as walter grew in stature, television news grew in stature. >> cronkite made cbs news respectable. >> reporter: less an year later, the news expanded to 30 minutes. viewers tuned into cronkite who saw his job as a mission to get the facts fast. >> he had more experience, more knowledge. there wasn't a day when news was a much more serious teaching cool. . >> the highest calling is to get the facts straight and report them impartially, fairly. >> he seemed comfortable. why was he so well suited? >> he was a presence america took to.

he was telling everybody, everything's goesing to fine. >> he reflected what many ofs felt and showed the emotion we were feeling. >> his broadcast was the number one evening show for 13 years. he covered presidents from truman to clinton and was fascinated by politics. he took us to convention after convention, perched in his booth over the floor. >> i think we've got a bunch of

thugs here, dan. >> once in 196 in a cbs documentary he dropped his anchorman objectivity. >> to say we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory conclusion. >> t-minus 19 seconds. >> when it came to american exploration in space, he was particularly excited and on. >> one small step for man. >> oh, boy. i'm speechless. it will be the story people remember for the 20th century. >> reporter: during a tumultuous time in our history, his nightly sign-off became one constant we all counted on. >> that's the way it is. that's the way it is. >> reporter: ever the working reporter, cronkite was the first anchor to be named managing editor of his broadcast.

>> go back to the beginning, try to tell it as close to a narrative as you could and answer the questions, how, why, what and where? >> reporter: away from the anchor chair he had many interests. a passion for fast cars and song and dance and sailing, a sport he shared with his beloved bessie, his family and others. march 1981, after nearly 20 years on the cbs evening news, he anchored his last forecast. >> good evening. >> walter was the gold standard. he set the pace. he had this almost personification of integrity. >> sometimes television is a sports stadium. sometimes it's theater. sometimes it's a movie house. sometimes it's a cathedral with times of stress.

people go to the television stress and say, tell us it's going to be all right. walters with the ultimate television preacher. who they came to to be told everything is fine. >> he lived out his years itching to be where the story broke. he worried though about the fate of journalism, compromise he feared by sensational and global communications. >> journalism ought to be about what people need to know, not what they want to know. we must be responsible if we want to have the informed public we need to have to make democracy work. >> in the end, walter cronkite remained an optimist who believed nightly in america. >> the mine thing i learned is that we americans do have a way

of rising to the challenges that confront us. there is reason to hope for the 21st century. >> again, the new, reaction has been pouring in from across the nation and in fact, across much of the world over the past two hours since cbs news announced the death of walter cronkite. here is a statement from president barack obama at the white house. "for decades, walter cronkite was the most trusted voice of america. walter set the standard by which all has been judged. he was there flew wars and riots, marches and milestones, a couple ofly telling us what we needed to know. walter was more than an anchor, he was someone we could trust to guide us through the importance of the day, a voice of incertainty in an uncertain world. he was family inviting us to believe in him and he never let us down. this country lost an icon and a

dear friend and he will be truly missed." that is the statement tonight from president barack obama. he will be missed from americans used to watching walter cronkite and news professionals throughout the years who had the benefit of working with this legend and learning the news from walter cronkite. one was sylvia chase who worked at cbs news under walter cronkite from 1971 to 1977. thanks for joining us. what is going through your mind at this hour? >> mostly, i guess, summed up by saying i feel honored to be asked to talk about him. i was thinking about him so much because of the 40th anniversary of the first apollo mission. i was listening to him today talking about alan dean and others there in the apollo missions and saying, i hope walter's listening.

what you ran in your package there sums him up so well. he had a glee thinking about what was going up on the moon and in general about the space program. particularly about the moon and all these astronauts were also talking about the thrill of being on the moon. i thought walter will love hearing about this. that is one of the things that struck me today. >> so many of us as we are trying to get ready for the 40th anniversary of the apoll other 11 mission to the moon and 40 years on monday, there was this incredible moment where walter cronkite, where he is speechless where he gets the word they are on the moon. apparently for years he felt badly about that. he was apologetic he ran out of words. >> well, of course, the thing

that makes a successful broadcast, it seems to me, is that you can betray vulnerability. i always thought that was one of walter's great strengths. when you recall when he announced president kennedy was dead, he caught himself for a minute. you could see the emotion. that made you feel more that you could trust him because he was really just being like you and i would be under the same circumstances. >> you essentially joined cbs news 1971 after starting in radio in los angeles. it must have been fairly intimidating to join cbs news in 1971 with the roster of talent theyed had led by walter cronkite. what was it like working with walter cronkite at the time? >> i felt like a groupie. there he was. one of the things i often said when people would ask me about walter, what's he like?

i said, you know, what you see is what you get. that's who he is. he was generally supportive of me. he made me think, you may be one of the first women in this newsroom and that's a good thing and we are glad about it. that is one of the lovely things he did to support me. the other thing about him was, i don't know if others have expressed this. he always made you feel you wanted to really work hard for him and do the right thing. advance the story. don't just say what everybody could read in "the new york times" this morning. bring us something new. when you were working for him, you felt really proud to be working for him. >> it was then in 1972, right in the middle of your career at cbs where there was a trust index

survey, a poll that came out. it found walter cronkite was the most trusted man in america. there was a survey in 1974 he was chosen the most trusted television newscaster. i guess people to young to remember the 1970s, i wonder if you could describe how tumultuous a time it was and when americans didn't have trust, and to have this iconic figure everybody trusted in and the nightly news what so crucial. >> well, i think one of the things that made you feel you trusted him was that he had the courage, and again i'm going back to the vulnerability thing. he had the courage to say things such as that we were not doing well in vietnam which was a brave move for him to make. i think that, although i often

have said really it was years after he said that before the united states left vietnam, and i think people just trusted him -- i mean, everything was going on. you've seen it. demonstrations and it was amazing. then of course the watergate thing. he, i don't know if that's come up at all, but he had the courage to put the pieces together about the watergate and the white house connection to the committee to re-elect the president. that reporting was very, very brave of him to do because no one was really addressing it. people didn't know what was going on. he had a wonderful producer who

connected the dots between the white house and the committee to re-elect the president. there was another brave thing he did. i think we all at that time, everybody was a little shaky. >> indeed. according to all the statements and the biographies everyone will read about the next couple of days, it was a crucial piece of journalism during the midst of watergate and cbs news and what walter cronkite did was take this complex story at the time and lay it out for americans to understand what watergate was all about. another incredible aspect of walter cronkite's career. sylvia chase, early reporter and from cbs news, we appreciate it. >> it was an honor to talk about walter. thank you for the opportunity. >> we'll be back with this and the coverage of walter cronkite. cbs news announced his death about two hours ago.

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age of 92 passed away. walter cronkite was 92 years old. for so many millions of americans, it's an understatement to say they experienced key part of american history in the 1960s and 1970s through the eyes of walter conkrite. he was the authorizing voice during the assassination of president kennedy, robert kennedy, martin luther king, on and on. he was the man so many americans turned to and trusted to find out what happened in our world. the nbc news anchor and managing editor brian williams had the opportunity in the last several years to get to know walter cronkite. we had an opportunity to walk to brian earlier about his thoughts on the passing of walter cronkite. joining us to talk about the impact of his life on all of us is brian williams, anchor and managing editor of "nbc nightly

news. "in. your thoughts on this passing? >> david, thanks for having me. i headed home tonight after "nightly news." unbelievably, i did a telephone interview for a friend preparing a journalism text book. she is writing this in los angeles. i just finished talking about walter and the effect he had on, not just my life, but our country and our industry for the past half hour, not knowing until a few minutes ago what had happened. from the perspective of my living room as a kid, he was born in 1959. i grew up in the cold war, the space shots, the moon mission, the vietnam war, he was it. our dinner couldn't be served in my house until he said, "that's what it it is" at the end of the broadcast.

he was the icon. when that opinion poll came out in the 1970s calling him the most trusted man in america, it stuck. no one quarrelled with it. the moniker stuck to him forever. he was really the first modern day anchor, i guess don huet at cbs is credited with coming up with that term, and people forget over the next couple of days will talk a lot about how he broke the news of kennedy's assassination to the country. we remember the black and white video from that day in 1963. he removes his glasses, loses his composure, just ever so briefly. he was 47 years old on that day. he had covered, of course, world war ii and we're looking at it right now on the air. young men got old very quickly in that era and walter cronkite lived one of the great american lives. >> brian, for a lot of people who were born after walter

cronkite was off the air, i wonder if you can put in words the steadfastness of the gravitas of walter cronkite that exists to this day, the impact that he still has had on broadcasts, whether it's yours or cbs or abc that the network broadcasts in so many ways were defined by the likes of walter cronkite. >> first of all, try to imagine a country with three networks so just three choices in this amazing new box called television. families, as they used to gather and it's hard for us to believe gather around a radio and kind of stare at it and watch the words come out of it, this was magical. it was black and white but we didn't know any better. and so when the notion of an evening newscast came around, various anchor combinations were tried. the camel news caravan on nbc actually, you know, bore the name of a cigarette company. and then cbs news, they loved

the nickname the tiffany network, really made their bones from hard news coverage, dating back to ed murrow, the blitz in london over radio. they came up with a very, very strong combination headed by walter cronkite, who set journalistic standards. he was an old school print reporter from the midwest. he was a no-nonsense guy. look, he loved the air time. he was an on camera creature, after all. but his first concern, his first love was journalism. i'm a great collector of the recorded telephone conversations of president johnson and to hear those two guys talking, a president at the prime of his power, an anchorman at the prime of his, really sounds like they're running the country over the phone almost too close a collusion for journalists and president.

but walter never crossed that line and he worried about that line until the day he died. he expressed his dismay over some of the trends in television news early and often. >> brian, i'm told that you had at least some contact with walter cronkite as you made the transition into the anchor chair at nbc news. i wonder if you can talk briefly about what you knew about him personally. >> i've been very lucky to get to know him. he's had -- i'm happy to say he's had dinner in my home, and you know when you have public figures who are your icons growing up, people you worship, this is the guy i wanted to be. i don't know how to say it any more plainly. it's so nice when they turn out to be everything you wanted them to be. and this was one such case. he was gracious. he had a terrific sense of humor.

walter's friends were walter's friends. and there's no one who made fun of walter more than walter or his beloved wife betsy who we lost a few years ago. a fantastic guy. >> brian, i know that nbc nightly news and msnbc, we've all been going back to a lot of tapes in the preparation for the anniversary on monday of the 40th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission to the moon, and correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe that was the one where when walter cronkite was doing the broadcast he was momentarily speechless when neil armstrong was putting his foot down and that famous transmission, one small step. and later he apologized for being speechless. >> yeah, talk about old school. can you imagine? and they did something quite controversial. obviously we were glued to those grainy black and white live tv images from the surface of the moon, after all, and we watched armstrong step out.

we heard walter say simply, man on the moon. and after the landing, cronkite appeared to be drenched in sweat. they cut away from the surface of the moon to show the anchorman. and he had -- he was just looking around in absolute amazement, because this american life had spanned such a great distance. it was still an outlandish idea that this was happening at all, but again, you know, i was watching him that night. i was watching that coverage. it's unbelievable that his death comes now as we're looking 40 years back to the moon shot. and so many americans were watching him at the height of his power. a friend of mine says cronkite used to address the nation. other people did the evening news. >> brian williams, managing editor, anchor of the nbc "nightly news" who got to know walter cronkite and like so many of us grew up watching walter cronkite and his incredible broadcast on the cbs evening news. thank you so much for being part

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we continue to cover the death of the iconic cbs newsman walter cronkite. his long-time chief of stat maureen adler said he passed 7:42 this evening in manhattan in new york city. he was surrounded by family and the cause of death was cerebral vascular disease, a d-generation of the arteries and veins in the brain. he was the anchor of cbs news from 1962 to 1981. the remembrance of those who worked with him continue to come in tonight. sean mcmahon yus released this statement earlier. "it is impossible to imagine cbs news or journalism in america without walter cronkite. guided america through crises,

tragedies and also our victories and greatest moments. no matter what the news was, walter was always the consummate professional with an unparalleled sense of compassion, integrity, humanity and warmth much there will never be another figure in american history who will hold our position. walter held in our minds. there are no words to droib how he which isle miss. joining us is tom shields. so many will read his article tomorrow that he starts his piece differently than others. he refers to 1981 when walter cronkite was retiring and a t-shirt said, "oh, my god, what are we going to do without walter cronkite?" he reflects how walter conkrite will be remembered. can you pick us up there and

take us through what walter cronkite meant to america and the world of television journalism? >> yes. he wasn't just a professional. he became the friendly uncle walter to millions and millions of families. that would include the so-called greatest generation that tom brokaw wrote about. walter epitomized that generation. he was there during world war ii and the depression and all those years. he just became so integral to the stories that he covered that they were almost inseparable as you watched them on tv. >> there is, of course, any time we cover somebody we all seem to know from television or because of their celebrity or impact on our society, it reminds us of

our morality. i wonder if you think the passing of walter cronkite signals the morality of news and how it sort of the role it performed in broadcasting in america for so long? >> certainly the morality of network news, which is just in the proverbial shadow of its former self. it is no long-range the truth-givers of the nation when those of us growing up with tv versus radio then tv. there were only three networks for a weigh. they were -- the news came down from mount olympus in a way and the anchors were considered worldy-wise and almost dieties. that's given away to cable and the media and fragmentation of the audience, and even now with

the decline of the great american newspaper which is happening in city after city. people get tired of hearing, we'll never see his like again, but i think in the sad case of walter cronkite, it's quite true. even as the greatest newsman in the world should come along, he probably wouldn't command the kind of audience and constituency and the kind of majority rule in a way walter cronkite did. he was the kind of guardian angel of the news. we took from him not just information but a kind of sustenanace and support. walter cronkite was a newsman and a member of the familiar,

the great national family that watched television as it grew up and grew older and finally has grown into something else all together. >> the title "anchorman" was first applied, i suppose to the broadcasters of his generation, but i'm reading here one of the tributes of walter cronkite says in sweden, anchors are known at cronkiters, and in holland they were cronkiters. it's as if he defined something that was never mark of history before. >> anchor is something that holds something in place or stabilized it. walter helped stabilize us through some of the greatest triumphs, but also some of the great tragedies of our national lives. the most outstanding being the assassination of president kennedy, which those of us who are of a certain age will always

think of in terms of walter cronkite telling us the news, having just heard from, i think, dan rather in dallas that president kennedy was dead. as he said it, took off his glasses and his eyes grew moist. he didn't cry, exactly, but there was this suggestion of tears. that was how we all felt. it was at that moment the anchor, so-called anchor became more than an anchor and became benign, big brother figure. not the one orwell envisioned, but an authority figure we felt warmly toward and felt sort of a kindred relationship to. that was forever on walter was the definition of an anchor. in some countries the word

cronkite means anchor. i don't know how much more impressive you can get than that. >> tom, we appreciate you being part of our coverage tonight. it means a lot you would join us. tom shields, tv critic with "the washington post" who has a must-read piece of walter cronkite and his impact on broadcast news. >> i'm sorry i can't be as eloquent about walter as he was about the world. he will be missed. it's just as a presence in the world, he is no longer with us. >> indeed. we will continue our coverage here at msnbc. walter cronkite dead at the age of 92. welcome to the now network. population 49 million. right now, 1.5 million people are on a conference call. 750,000 wish they weren't. - ( phones chirping ) - construction workers are making 244,000 nextel direct connect calls. 1 million people are responding to an email. - 151 accidentally hit "reply all." - ( foghorn blows )

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as we continue to remember the work of walter cronkite, we are honored to be joined by tom brokaw. a lot of people may not realize you were also a good friend of walter cronkite. on behalf of all of us, our condolences on you on behalf of your friend. what is going on with you through these past hours? >> i've been keeping track of walter's condition more closely in the last six weeks or so. the other day it occurred to me i thought he lingered so long because there was one more story he could cover. he loved the news with great passion and he loved breaking news. i don't think we all had an opportunity to pause and reflect on the breadth of his career. it occurred to me no other american journalist has been in the middle of huge stories as

walter cronkite. he was there with world war ii, he covered the cold war and the election of kennedy, assassination of the president, landing of the moon, watergate. it went on and on and he did it with such a steady hand on the tiller to borrow a nautical term he would probably approve of. he came to the end of his career as an anchor, as the most trusted man in america. he guided us through so many of these epic events. people, even those of us across the street, frankly works look on with a sense of awe and gratitude that he was there. then i got to know him personally. i always considered that one of the great benefits having the good fortune i had in my life. walter was generous to me personally, to nbc news when we would do a good job on a big story, we would hear from him

personally. there was nobody who liked to have a good time better than walter. walter and betsy, his late wife, never missed an opening night or movie premier. they were the life of the party. i think it's an old-fashioned journalist attitude if there is something going on, i want to be there. >> i understand quite a family man. some of us will never forget he was on with one of his grandchildren sitting there in a la-z-boy chair with his grandson and describing it as one of the most interesting experiences of his broadcast life. >> it was. he was very close to his family. it's not easy having the kind of attention he did we had no larger celebrity than walter cronkite. he kept a measured life when it came to his family. he was helped a great deal by

his wife betsy who met when they were reporters on the "kansas city star." she had a wonderful sense of humor. they lived in a townhouse and then moved to a high-rise apartment. somebody said to betsy, this will be more convenient. she said i would miss the townhouse. she said i'll miss the backyard because i could bury all those damn plaques walter keeps getting. they had that kind of relationship in their lives. they all kept each other on even keel. >> tom, you wrote about the greatest generation of which walter was obviously a part of. essentially covering normandy and crucial times during world war ii. i wonder how that shaped him as a journalist years later? >> i always thought cbs news had at its core people who covered

world war ii, and it was walter cronkite and les mitchell who was writing for the "herald tribune" and bill leonard. they all came up in that school and saw the world in those terms. i think it did help make cbs news what it became. when vietnam came along, they knew this was a big and important war. they unleashed their a-team on vietnam. when the tete offensive occurred, walter came there personally and came back and said on the air he didn't think the war could be won. that's when lyndon johnson said we lost middle america. i think that formidable experience during world war ii was important not just to walter, but to the core senior people at cbs news. it helped form who they were. >> tom, you were an nbc news

white house correspondent in the 1970s in the midst of watergate and walter was the competition. what was that like? >> i was competing with dan rather and the press room and walter on the air every night. chet huntly retired at that point. we were trying to find the right combination. john chancellor was on the air with david brinkley. we were doing, i think, a distinguished job to stay competitive. it was tough. they were the gold standard. you knew when the big story broke there was this inclination to go to cbs. you had to say, look over here for a moment. we've got something going on here, as well. the nice thing about walter was i hadn't been on the job too long and this super-heated environment when i met him at a

white house correspondent dinner. he said, young man, we are keeping our eye on you at cbs. you are doing too well for nbc. he gave me a slap on the back. he wasn't patting me on the head, he took me from a colleague the moment we first met and i must say it grew into a nice friendship. it meant a lot to have that. >> tom, we are going to ask you to stand by and stay with us. we are going to continue our coverage and remembrances of walter cronkite with tom brokaw. cbs news announcing walter cronkite's death. announcer: here's ryan getting ready to make his approach... to the men's room. second announcer: looks like he needs to go urgently. true. and there's casey, about to drive... also to the men's room. he has been going over and over. they ought to see their doctors. could be male urinary symptoms due to bph, an enlarged prostate. for many guys, prescription flomax reduces their urinary symptoms due to bph in one week. and if their doctors do prescribe flomax,

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>> well, walter cronkite was a seminole figure of that coverage. i want to make sure everyone understands this in context. the assassination of john kennedy made television news what it became. it became what everyone called the electronic hearth. it was this common experience of seeing it and sharing it in realtime. walter broke the news of john kennedy's death there was that emotional moment where he removed his glasses, gave us the time and put them back on, ever the journalist, but also human. i was working for an nbc station at the time and remember watching that and being so impressed by the utter professionalism of it. at the same time, showing his personal side.

then that launch -- and by the way, it was just a few weeks before that that nbc and cbs both went to half hour nightly newscast. they had been only 15 minutes up to that point. it was appointment television in. america, you were a wall street cronkite family or a chet huntley/david brinkley family. people would come home with their offspring, watch the news. they may have seen the beginning on "the today show," there was no morning news. people were waiting to see what happened. the assassination of john f. kind i believe triggered a series of catalyst mick events. it's well known what walter cronkite said about vietnam,

civil rights and the terrible loss to pay with the death of martin luther king. robert kennedy gets assassinated. there were those wearing hard hats going off to vietnam and the universities and protesting against the war. we were in a real crisis in this country. richard nixon gets elected and gives us watergate. through it all walter cronkite there is steady as she goes. the helmsman at the tiller, steering america, with enormous integrity, a great supporting cast of the serious correspondents and others who worked with it. it wouldn't have been the same cbs news without walter cronkite sitting in that chair. >> anything in particular when you look back at his career he would talk about? >> he would always talk about, i