so what was it a good move by the cronkite's, howling and walter cronkite seniors father to move to houston, but it would be jim crow. they encounter a flood of racism. his father's dental just did not work out. he was at a dental college, has some personal problems with other people and he started drinking heavily, his father. eventually they get a divorce and walter is the only child raised by his mother in houston and his father moved back to missouri. cronkite got a very early interest in journalism in gold. both that lanier, middle-school. they started having journalism classes. for journalism classes and 30, 31 in high school was unusual. cronkite started competing and he was all about the five w.'s of journalism and walter cronkite believed in us until he died. who, what, when, where, why, basic reporting. he did a great job writing for school newspapers and eventually come alertly due to a girlfriend staying in houston, he enrolled in university of texas at austin, got deeply involved with the school paper, wanted for a while to be an engineer, mineral engineering, hoping he could get rich. although he