you looked at walter cronkite, you said uncle walter.uncular never fit anyone better than -- as charles was just saying, we're all beneficiaries of the standards that he set. i dare say i have to give some tribute to david brinkley in the early days as well if when network news first began, it could have gone in a lot of different directions. but it became a very serious enterprise, and walter, of course, took it to heights that no one could have imagined. >> tom, talk about that competition because the competition was phenomenal. >> it was. huntley and brinkley obviously took off very quickly. they became the first real television news celebrities in america. they took their jobs very seriously. but then when chap left, that was a great opening for walter cronkite. and that a-team he had around him of correspondents and producers very quickly they became like 1929 new york yankees. and to be across the street from them was sometimes frustrating but i always admired the work that cbs news would do. and walter was a generous man. when i w

walter went on railing about walter, and the caller, amazingly unaware that he was talking to walter,et this collor de fin walter for a bit, and then he said, well, maybe you are right. -- he let the caller defend walter. walter thank him and hung up. he looked at us and said, now that is how you do it. [applause] >> do you know who would have loved this day? walter. what today is. mr. president, and mr. president, members of the cbs family, member of walter's family, the other day, walter's grandson, who is a proud member of the cbs washington bureau now, working this summer as an intern, came into my office and ask me, what was it like when my grandfather was here? i tried to tell him, and the first thing i told him was, it was fun. we all wanted to be there. his grandfathers' enthusiasm captured us all. walter cronkite was the most curious man i have ever met. he always wanted to know everything about everything, and he wanted to know it before everyone else knew it. that was the spirit that settled on to the washington bureau and the cbs news. there was a downside to this. many of

this time for walter scott's family.stime, and walter scott had just returned home from his concert tour to spend the holidays with his wife and children. friends said that walter didn't appear to be himself, that he was distracted. two days after christmas, joanne scott called police to report walter missing. she said he had left for a garage to get a new battery for his car and that he had not returned home. the owner of the garage said walter never arrived. the next day, the police found walter's automobile abandoned in a parking lot at the st. louis airport. but none of the flight manifests listed walter scott as a passenger. at t-mobile, get a sweet tablet on us. right now, when you get a new data plan, you can also get our most popular 7 inch tablet with no money down and no monthly payments. grandpa bode, grandma said you used to really... control. i guess i did take some risks. anncr: bode, bode miller!!! trained a little bit differently. a little too honest sometimes. the media is useless. you were out of contro

- oh, oh no, he's here, now that's walter, walter's here, walter's here, walter's-- - vivian, vivian, there's no need to panic. i'll simply just get lost in the crowd, he probably won't even notice me. hing. the man who's coming in is walter. - norman! - [norman] walter, how are you? norman. - [norman] nice to see you. - norman, this is kathy rivers. this is norman johnson. - [kathy] hi. how are you? - [norman] nice to meet you. - what a crazy rumpus room, it looks like the ladies lounge at trader vic's. (laughter) - isn't she sensational?! - what do you think of him, bob? - [bob] oh, he's all right. i think he brought his daughter. - [bob] does he have a niece? - yes. - i think he brought his niece. - she better be three years old. (laughter) (applause) - oh, good evening mister findlay. - [walter] misses naugatuck. - i'll pass, you walter? - i don't drink kathy, i have a problem. i'm a reformed alcoholic. - that's cool, i dig men who've gone through torment. (laughter) - isn't that nice? misses findlay's been married to four of those so far. (laughter) - vivian, arthur, happy annive

walter, walter, walter, you have every right to absolutely furious with me. honey, i know i've been spending a lot of time up in albany lately, you know, lobbying for that antipollution bill. and, oh, walter, i know i couldn't have honey, my guy, my guy, walter findlay, chosen tuckahoe's businessman of the year. (audience laughs) winner of this year's tuckie award. (audience laughs) ah, come on, walter. walter, honey, i am so sorry i came in in the middle of the presentation and everything. oh, walter, they can have their oscars i love your tuckie. (audience laughs) oh, walter, sweetheart, i know what an honor it is. your name on this trophy along with other tuckahoe men of the year, art of art's gas station. joe gamble, night manager of chicken delight. mario leonetti, philanthropist. and part-owner of the pussycat porno theater. i mean, but i really blew the whole thing. oh, but, honey, walter, when you find out why i was late, i know you're going to understand. walter, i know that tonight was the most important night of your life. but, walter, i just had t

now walter again. he knows he has this choice to live is what life is a white man or black man because nobody would know. but something incredible happened to him when he was 12 years old. that set the foundation for his life's work as a sort of maniacal and i don't use that word loosely a maniacal. um secret of justice in america and that is when he 12 years old. he went on his father's mail route. his father was a male carrier and after school each day. walter would go with his father on this mail route. and on this day i think was in september 1906. they witnessed the outbreak of the atlanta race ride of 1906 now at the time. um photographs didn't really exist cameras were hard to come by and there's very little photographic evidence of this riot, but it was reported so widely that you can see this this is actually the cover. of a french newspaper and in france because photography they didn't really work in newspapers at that time. they would paint the covers you can see across the bottom in small l

walter's friends were walter's friends.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 sho

walters and obama -- walters writes about obama. obviously, walters passed away in 2010 of cancer. he is around for the '08 election. he writes his column. wrote a weekly column for decades on black politics. he is both impressed by barack obama but also disappointed that obama refuses to listen and understand that his job as president is to be open to a black agenda along with white agendas and other agendas. that's what he is disappointed by. he realizes that obama is president of the united states but what walters makes an argument about in his writings and criticism of obama but also black leadership and black people is that as president of the united states, you have to listen to multiple agendas and then decide the importance of those agendas, the order you are going to tackle those agendas. presidents of the united states, they listen to armenian americans, turkish americans, they listen to multiple constituencies. what walters argued was that barack obama was being disingenuous when he said he couldn't advocate for black agenda. he could only follow the law. because walters

walter, now don't be idiotic. whatever they call it. lie down, maude. walter, walter. maude, down! really, walter. shut up and bundle. you know, walter, you're--you're outrageous. you know, you're gorgeous. i always wanted to rough it with you. oh, honey, you know, this is really all i ever wanted. not the cabin. i mean, just a little attention. what do you mean? oh, sweetheart, that's all any wife really wants, walter. just a little more attention lly gets. you know something, maude? we could be home. or we could be here. but it's the two of us together that makes everything work. oh, walter, we can survive anything. why, we could spend the whole weekend here with no trouble. weekend? we could stay here a week. a month. a year. ten years. a lifetime. ? donny hathaway: ? lady godiva was a freedom rider ? women: ? ooh ooh ooh... ? ? she didn't care if the whole world looked ? ? joan of arc with the lord to guide her ? ? ooh ooh ooh... ? ? she was a sister who really cooked ? ? ooh ooh... ? as the first bra burner ? ? ain't you glad she showed up? ? ? oh, yeah ? ? and when the countr

oh, walter. walter, walter, please don't walk . and listen, maude! maude... do you see what you've turned us into, walter? laurel and hardy. except that you're not only the dumb one, and the joke, walter, is our marriage. maude, our marriage isn't a joke. our marriage and you... mean more to me than anything-- pride, money, business... then, walter, listen, for the last time, will you please, please, for the last time, will you please take the ridiculous check? yes. oh, i love you. and i love you. oh, oh... oh, maude, mmm.... ? donny hathaway: ? lady godiva was a freedom rider ? women: ? ooh ooh ooh... ? ? she didn't care if the whole world looked ? ? joan of arc with the lord to guide her ? ? ooh ooh ooh... ? ? she was a sister who really cooked ? ? ooh ooh... ? ? isadora was the first bra burner ? ? ain't you glad she showed up? ? ? oh, yeah ? ? and when the country was fallin' apart ? ? betsy ross got it all sewed up ? ? and then there's maude ? ? and then there's maude ? ? and then there's maude ? ? and then there's maude ? ? and then there's maude ? ? an

walter came into your living room but walter was not about flash. walter was about the story. morley safer and bob schieffer talked about he wasn't a flashy, fancy guy. he was about the core value of the news. i think we live in an era with the proliferation of cable, fikac sesz by people to information t. great part about having a smaller platform is that you were always heard. it is harder to have a distinctive voice. i'm proud to work at cbs where "60 minutes" is the hallmark of journalism and continues to break new ground. walter was all about that. walter was about the value and knowledge of a story and shedding light. it sounds old fashioned but that is what it was about. >> susan we have talked about so many big nights, kennedy assassination, man on the moon, the turning point in vietnam. walter was a pack rat we are told. that is one of the things you learned from your friend and mentor. you have in your desk a script of another famous night in walter cronkite's life. >> i do, indeed. i feel grateful that i can show it tonight. let me put it up here so you can see it.

walter was us. he was a part of us, and he got us, speaking for so-called middle americans. these days you can wake up and there's already a cable network that agrees with you and you can watch it all day in total agreement with its -- its political bent, and it's hard to conjure up the past where there were just three choices on television. and at his height, he addressed the nation. he didn't just anchor the "evening news," he addressed the nation. he had a tear in his eye, twice in his career. and, again, fast-forward to today, we've got some hosts on television who cry twice a day easily. and it's just times have changed so, so much. and we -- we loved him as a country, the model was quite different, anchorman talks, americans listen. we turn off the set. that was the end of the conversation. today in e-mail and the internet, the conversation goes on 24/7. he in these later pictures, you know, he's wearing suits that he had handmade in london, and we kind of knew that about him as viewers, and h

walter: correct.id: and ultimately, you had to spend a lot of time fixing the bank of america, is that right? walter: that is correct. david: you led an effort to pick brian moynihan, who is still the ceo of bank of america. is that right? walter: that's right. david: so that worked out ok. walter: that worked out fantastic. brian has done a wonderful -- it's not just my opinion, he has been chosen ceo of the year a couple of times, not just in the financial industry. but throughout corporate america and banking. ♪ david: let me ask you right now about something you are involved in right now, which is the giant magellan telescope. you are leading the effort to get people to fund the giant magellan telescope. why do we need the giant magellan telescope, since we have the webb telescope, that seems to be sending back nice pictures. how much better is the giant magellan going to be? walter: four times better. david: four times better. walter: four times better resolution, which means the pictures will be

walter... walter, walter, walter. oh, hi, maude. here, walter. walter, beat me. beat me! beat me with the umbrella! don't be ridiculous, maude. i mean, what if it breaks and it rains tomorrow? walter, i come to you for punishment, and what do you give me? gh humor in this world already? oh, walter, i'm sorry, i'm sorry, but, walter, i am so riddled with guilt. i've been wandering around all day wondering how to tell you what i did. i even stopped in at the funeral. i had three irish coffees and confessed twice to father monahan. he loves my hat. look, maude-- dropped out of your wallet, and, walter, i looked at it! oh, i-i'm so ashamed! i even went to the apartment and confronted the girl! darling, darling, darling. we all make mistakes. the important thing is that we learn from our lesson. oh! oh, walter, walter, you're so understanding! well, i like to think so. that's why when carol told me what you did, that you went into town-- oww! you knew?! you let me make a fool of myself twice in one day? walter, isn't it enough that i have learned my lesson? what lesson, maude?

what did it mean to walter? >> it meant everything to walter. i heard you asking before what the greatest story that you asked about walter, opining on the greatest story he ever covered and what he often said. he said it was man's landing on the moon. because it was our escape from our environment and an opportunity for -- to discover a new world. >> marlene, i unfortunately need to stop there. unfortunately we're out of time. i want to thank you so much. i apologize for your reflecting. as we end the program tonight, we want to end the program tonight with the words of the man in his day was the most trusted name in news. >> a press corps of 500 and we of television and radio standing by and the top rocket colonel john glenn standing by. man on the moon. >> the eagle has landed. >> boy. >> we're going to be busy for a moment. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> if you're just joining us tornts, this is ac 360, john king sitting in for anderson. sad news. millions of americans from all over the country and walks of life. may have shared l

walter: yes. david: so, what happened to the 11th and 12th grade? you didn't need that? weren't you kind of young to go to college? walter: i was 16 and i was part of a program. i was not the only one. it had been going on for three years. i was in the third year of this experiment and there were about 15 of us in my group. and there had been some before, so the college had sort of adjusted to these young kids coming in who didn't have courses. we had good counselors, good teachers and evidentially, we were smart. i did not know it, we were able to not just survive, but we were some of the most accomplished students in the college. david: you go to morehouse and decide you want to major in physics. was that a very popular major at morehouse at the time? walter: i was the only physics major in the four years in my class. [laughter] there was one before me and one before him. david: what did you tell your parents? a physics major, what did they say? walter: my parents were very good. my mother would

>> walters: yeah. that, before the day's over, i'll probably end up with, i don't know, maybe $2 million at risk. >> logan: over the years, people have spied on walters, even rifled through his trash, trying to learn what teams he's betting on and how much he's betting. to protect his operation from prying eyes, walters has become obsessed with security and secrecy. all of his partners use code names, like "j-bird" and "wolfman." >> walters: wolfman, we want to take new england plus three and a half and three. >> logan: can you tell me who wolfman is? >> walters: he's a retired disc jockey. >> logan: he is not. come on. >> walters: he has a nickname. he prefers to be called "wolfman." that's what i call him, wolfman. >> logan: billy walters has also built a brain trust of consultants, most of them mathematicians and experts on everything from weather conditions to player injuries. he told us they act like analysts for a hedge fund manager. so, information is key. i mean, it sounds like you track every

also when you watched it, walter cried. walter had tears. he was for so many of us, john, a member of the family. that's why people called him uncle walter. there was this wisdom about him and this great voice, and we felt that we knew him and that he knew us. now, we're in a different time, and there's nobody, although there are excellent anchors of course, there's nobody that had the command that walter had. first of all, television is much more fractionalized, there's no one person that has that much power, and we're more cynical, maybe more sophisticated. i think the sad thing about walter was that he left broadcasting too soon, and i think he regretted it. >> i think a lot of people share that feeling. you mentioned power. i was reading that a great many people urged him to take his fame and turn it into high political office and he never would do that because he understood that you can't use the power of journalism and take advantage of it in that way to then move to a political position where you try to ram your point across. >> well,

with walters and presidential leadership and walters and white nationalism, what walters sees is the fact that black politics and the way in which it moves from protests to politics, we have to remember, there is all kinds of grassroots insurgency happening in the 1980's and 1990's, and walters is connected somewhat, but this is absolutely happening. but we are thinking about black politics as it is organized at an elite level, it goes from protests to policy. they are not organized. in 1972 we saw a congressman from michigan align himself. and this was not happening by the 1980's. walters says black politicians have to reach out to the grassroots. he tries to connect this at a national black leadership roundtable, a national black faculty congress, all these things that are never well resourced enough to become institutionalized. and when it comes to white nationalism, walters sees what we are experiencing today, but when you think about whiteness as a socially-constructed identity, postwar whiteness includes all sorts of previously marginalized white ethnics, people who could not b

walter white. walter francis white. and i never mentioned his name, the only thing people thought about was breaking bad. and i thought that's not going to work for me. the first thing i did was i want to yale university, i look at the archives, that's where walters papers are. i want to the public library at the schomburg center in harlem. i went through most importantly the naacp papers which is a treasure trove of materials regarding walter white. and when i found was more than i hope to and i really learned that the story of walter's life and why we should know about it is really much greater than i even anticipated. so who was walter white? one way to say this, explain in a very short sentence. you might say walter francis white was the powerful civil rights figure, in the first half of the 20th century. and already, you're saying to yourself, how can that be? he's making this up, it can be true. because of that was true, we would all know who was. another way to define walter sesay walter whi

barbara walters. terry reeser saw the writing on the wall on the back to cbs. barbara walters did not lose her anchor title but redefine how the evening news was going to work with guys working different capitals on barbara still technically an anchor but gradually she did what she does best which was a big interview. she did not create a big tv interview. i think you would say edward r earl did that she expanded it, defined it came to donna that genre. >> absolute true. the today show experience she was clearly always told to beat besecond fiddle or third fiddle, did that help her in the later reachingia out to a broader, not just politicians and national leaders, but really broadened her access to other figures? here's a life lesson from barbara walters when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. here's how she o had done that. she had been on the today show and the host was hugh downs heard he was very supportive of her. one of the very few men on the air who supported barbara walters and her ambiti

paige: walter! paige, get to the door! walter! (shouts) there's got to be a way to get them out of here. (grunts) guys, there's a door at the end of the walkway over the cooling room. it must be defective 'cause it's closing slower than the others. (alarm continues blaring) over there, the door! (grunts) cabe! cabe! hurry. cabe! cabe! it's not gonna hold! go now! cabe, it's not gonna... go! go! there's got to be an override here somewhere. ah, damn it! calculate fast, walter! how much time to get me out of here? you hold on tight. i'm gonna figure this out. (classical music) (rock music) the steakhouse thickburger. onion strings, blue cheese and a1 sauce on a burger. when things look the bleakest, heroes find a way. one way or another... something's wrong. i'm gonna getcha getcha, getcha, getcha... oh, my god. one way i'm gonna getcha, i'll getcha... i knew you'd save the day. (laughs) one way. what's going on? walter's safe. cabe's trapped in there. (alarm blaring in distance) thanks to you. hey, how about you settle down? oh, th

barbara walters. tehran, 1977. i said, indeed, we work for the same company and gyptian said he wants to know, is it true she is paid $1,000,000 a month? and i said, well, actually i think it's $1,000,000 a year. and the drivers face fell. barbara walters was already a global icon. and then didn't it kind of propel her her career from that point on? isn't that a wonderful story? because how many journalists have had similar experiences to that? and, you know, one of them who did was walter cronkite. so walter cronkite was, of course, the leading anchor of the day and a figure of unquestioned authority. and someone who viewed barbara walters with a little bit of skepticism about whether she was a real journalist. and they were both trying to cover the groundbreaking things that were happening in the middle east, a groundbreaking trip of anwar sadat of egypt to israel. and it was barbara walters and her ability to cultivate relations with world leaders that a few months earlier in 1977 enabled her to get the first si

also when you watched it, walter cried. walter had tears. he was for so many of us, john, a member of the family. that's why people called him uncle walter. there was this wisdom about him and this great voice, and we felt that we knew him and that he knew us. now, we're in a different time, and there's nobody, although there are excellent anchors of course, there's nobody that had the command that walter had. first of all, television is much more fractionalized, there's no one person that has that much power, and we're more cynical, maybe more sophisticated. i think the sad thing about walter was that he left broadcasting too soon, and i think he regretted it. >> i think a lot of people share that feeling. you mentioned power. i was reading that a great many people urged him to take his fame and turn it into high political office and he never would do that because he understood that you can't use the power of journalism and take advantage of it in that way to then move to a political position where you try to ram your point across. >> well,

walter: i was amazed. in the midst of a complicated program with all of them working and you come out here to shoot a press story and here, the bus is rolling up with 50 people aboard from all parts of the u.s., getting out and looking. it was wide open. fmr. pres. johnson: something our system has that man has equaled. that's why we have the strength we do. walter: thank you very much, mr. president. former president johnson, who as a senator first but the drive behind our catching up in space after the russian sputnik and as the vice president, as chairman of the space council. now he sees apollo 11, 75% of the way around the earth in the pacific toward the west coast of the u.s.. everything is going well. systems are checking out. there should be no constraints on the third stage firing in an hour and a half that will put them toward the moon. in a half-hour, we are expecting a television transmission from the color camera on the rocket. it's the same camera on the earlier apollo and the lunar lander. w

walter's mother was friendly.ut i wondered if she was wishing that walter had married an american girl. the others were nice to me, too. then, i had my first look at cleveland, ohio, the city which was to be my new home. his mother had been living alone since walter's father died. and we are going to stay with her until we can get a home of our own. as i looked around me, i was frightened. in this house, i would have to face a new life, very different than the one we had known in japan. ♪ the next evening, walter invited his family to come to the house and to see the pictures he had taken in the japan. i was still uneasy because i was not sure if these if these people liked me. something unpleasant happened to me. that night. walter's cousin wanted me to introduce myself. english was hard for me then, especially on the telephone. what i expected happened -- i could not understand a word. i knew there was no reason to be upset, but i felt stupid and ashamed. walter: i took this picture of her on our wedding day. th

walter aced it. he had his chance in american journalism and television history and he stuck the landing. and he got it right. >> brian, i know that you had somewhat of a personal relationship with mr. cronkite. when you talked to him about his career, he looked back on his career, what did he think was the hardest thing he did? what did he find most challenging about what his work? >> i think keeping his head in check and his beloved wife betsy was a -- the senior vice president of keeping walter's head in check. and he loved the acouterments of his job. my god he was known just about as well as the coca-cola logo throughout the united states and as media proliferated around the world. he wanted to keep working. it'll be said in various forms of truth over the next couple of days that he was, he left cbs news not in a way he would have liked. and he missed it and he regretted retiring. that gave a certain sadness to his retirement years. he never stopped reading newspapers just voracious. he never t

walter... walter, japa-- that's right. walter, we're go-- yes! oh, walter, i love japan! i know. walter, i adore japan. i know. walter, the first song i learned to play on the piano was chopsticks. oh, walter, if carol had been a boy i would've named him "toyota." sweetheart, do you realize how long we've been dying to go to the orient? oh... we're going to experience how the oriental lives! oh, walter, mt. fuji, the ginza, where will we be staying? the holiday inn. the tokyo holiday inn? howard johnson's was full. ( panting ) thank goodness, you're home, walter. listen, could i borrow your car? sure. where's yours? well, either vivian borrowed it, or it was stolen. what a terrible thought-- there could be a crook drivin' around with m.d. plates. somehow arthur, that doesn't strike me as unusual. arthur! arthur, the greatest thing that could ever happen to me happened today! you found a pair of pants that fit you in the seat? no, arthur. my ex-wife, miserable marta, met a guy on a singles cruise to jamaica, and she's getting married! no more alimony! well, congratulations, walter

walter massey. walter massey has been the leader of morehouse college, the university of california, the university of chicago, art institute, the national science foundation, argonne labs, and now he is leading the effort to get the giant magellan telescope funded by the u.s. government and by private institutions. i sat down with him recently at the university of chicago to talk about what he is most proud of having achieved in the incredible life he has had. dr. massey, you have been, i would say, a renaissance man. you have been involved in education, the arts, business, science. of all of the incredible things you have done in your career, what is it you are most proud of? walter: actually, i am proud of all of those things, but i think the position that has given me more satisfaction is going back to morehouse college, which was my alma mater, as president. i went back in 1995. my wife cheryl and i, when we talk about the various things we have done, we agreed that that was a lot of fun, but a

i'm going, walter, you're not. you're going?u talking about? out of my way, walter. i am a woman, and because i am a woman, i must make myself beautifulfor. erful head start. now, come on, maude. you cat accept the husband and the wife of the year award without a husband! walter, i am accepting the wife of the year award. i have also just become the most liberated woman theofe. why dn't i think of it before? walter, darling, i have decided i am not accepting your estate. no, i'm not. i have just cut myself out of your wi i don't want your protection, walter. i don't want your money, i don't want findl's appliances. after you're gone, arthur can take your piece of the rock you mean that you would give up everythi want leave you just because you don't like my will?! that rightthat is absolutely right, walter. i would rather be free and poor an be safe and secure under somebody else's control. i don't believe thust ard that! you can't do this to me! you've gotta accept my estate! sorry, sweetheart, you had yohance, and, like bobby riggs, you blew it. maude, you've gotta

walter was always walter cronkite, comfortable with himself., very good at what he did. he made it look deceptively easy which is what the great ones do. when i was on the road with him, we always looked forward to the evening because you could have a better time with walter cronkite than anybody. you could go sit in the restaurant and drink a glass of wine had him until the small hours. he was as much fun as you could imagine. no art i physician. just i'm walter cronkite and i'm having fun. >> how big of an era was the walter cronkite era at the cbs news. >> it was an era in which the stars of news were wonderful writers and wonderful broadcasters. he sat there at the top of the pyramid representing the authority and credibility of news at a time when it was really needed it. everybody watched the evening news then. so he was the focal point of an entire nation during a critical time, during vietnam not just the moon landing but you remember that he was there when the streets were rioting. he was at the chicago convention. his authority and hi

from the cbs news control center in new york, this is walter cronkite reporting. >> walter cronkite was the man who most americans turned to to find out what was happening, to be comforted in times of stress, to be reassured that as bad as things might be, there was a feeling of continuity. he provided that continuity five nights a week. >> supreme court today legalized abortion. a flurry of activity at the jack ruby trial. the risk of a meltdown at the three mile island atomic power plant. >> reporter: and he was with us during america's darkest moments. >> from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official, president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern standard time. some 38 minutes ago. and i almost lost it there. >> his authority and his calmness held the nation together, don't forget cbs news, he held the nation together during critical times. >> reporter: cronkite was a fixture at national conventions including the democrats' meeting in chicago in in 1968, a party and a culture at war with itself over vietnam. walter's skepticism grew while reporting on th

walter, walter, walter. adele, you are beautiful. i mean, believe me, you could have any man you wanted. any man in the world, any man. then how come edgar walked out on me? except edgar. where are my rolaids? this indigestion is killing me. rolaids. i'm ready to kill myself over edgar, and what do you do? adele, i don't want you to take an overdose of sleeping pills. so tell me where you hid them so i can go home. you know what's going on with my wife. we must have talked on the phone ten times already. boy, i'm such a looser. i call you because you're my boss and i look up to you. i'm ready to kill myself because edgar left me, and as soon as you get here, your store calls, that it's your wife, your inventory, your gas pains. what happened to my suicide?! adele, i beg you. i got indigestion, i got pains in my chest, my wife's waiting-- please! give me those sleeping pills! no! then why don't you call a priest? there's at least 10,000 ministers in new york. they couldn't help. i'm an atheist. then call a communist! father were divor

>> walters: four. indicted three times by the attorney general's office in nevada for the same thing. i got indicted, went to court, it was thrown out. i got re-indicted for the same thing, went to court again, it was thrown out. got re-indicted again, went to court again-- finally, the third time, it was thrown out and that was the end of it. >> logan: none of the charges stuck, and walters went on to build his own betting business. he became better than the bookmakers at predicting which team would win and by what margin. that margin of victory is called the "spread" or the "line." now, your lines are often different from the bookmakers' lines. >> walters: yes, substantially. >> logan: what do you do, in that situation? >> walters: the bigger the difference between the lines, the bigger the discrepancy, the larger bet i make. >> logan: what's unique about walters is that, when he doesn't like the line, he can sometimes force the bookmakers to change it. >> walters: we're going to work on this a littl

arthur: bet walter would know. hey, walter. walter: what? about the energy crisis. which uses the most energy, an electric toothbrush or an electric clock? a toothbrush uses seven watts an hour; a clock, only two. maybe we'll have to start brushin' our teeth with our clocks. vivian: anyway, she's all well again. and pregnant again. walter! what is it? what is it, guys? i say the energy crisis is blown all out of proportion by the oil companies. arthur believes every word that they say! why should the oil companies lie? they've got all the money in the world. maybe they wanna raise the price of gasoline. the crisis is serious, walter. otherwise, the president wouldn't have turned down his thermostat to 68 when he went down to key biscayne. the poor man was freezing down there! rn up his heat? of course not. he flew out to california. arthur, since you're so patriotic, how come you're still driving that big eight-cylinder job? well, i have to. it's part of my image. i mean, would you trust a surgeon that drove a volkswagen? what about your car? it's foreign. and that'