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 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 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'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

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

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

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,

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 was always walter cronkite, comfortable with himself.ry, 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

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

how you doing, walter? >> cue walter. >> this is walter cronkite. good night.a cold "good night"? all these famous broadcasters have their catch lines. murrow... >> good night, and good luck. >> so why not have one of those? and a nice one might be, "and that's the way it is," because i could say it almost any way. and that's the way it is. that's the way it is. and that's the way it is. >> and that's the way it is. >> now that's the way it is. or ironic, you know, "and that's the way it is?" >> we'll be right back. >> and now, let's all play "what's my line!" and now, let's meet our first contestant. will you come in and sign in, please? ( applause ) we'll begin our questioning with dorothy kilgare. >> mr. contestant, would we recognize your name or your face rather than your costume? >> probably. if your kids can go onward and upward, no matter what. if you get side-lined from work. insuring your family's ifs can be hard to figure out. so metlife removed the guesswork, by combining the most essential insurances, term life and disability, in one surprisingly a

i think walter went for the facts. he didn't give a lot of additional opinion and his own views and so on. people would automatically think, well, they might be true or might not be true. he stuck with the facts. i think that's the reason he came to be trusted so much was because people knew that when they heard from walter cronkite, why, it was true. he looked into the background of it. it wasn't just his opinion. he was giving the facts, whatever the situation was. i think that was valuable in the early days of the space program when aate low of people still doubted whether whether we should be going into space and some of those debates still continue to this day. walter had no doubt about the wisdom of it. >> smith: this notion though of speaking truth to power. i mean the audacity, it would seem audacious even in retrospect to have a reporter go over, go into the field of battle, and say something contrary to whatnot only the white house was saying but what also the military establishment was saying. we don't see t

walter got that. you know, listen, it was not the speed of which we work at today, because technology didn't afford us that. i mean, when walter cronkite was doing the "evening news" we were processing film. you would treat a story and it had to be processed in film. so it wasn't until just about the end when we were making the conversion to tape, now it's, you know, do your flip camera and ftp it and we're there. walter's value was he saw everything as it was. there was an honesty, as john talked about, and, you know, john and i have worked together for years when he was here at cbs. this was the walter cronkite newsroom. it will always be. it star started with murrow, it went to cronkite. we totally embody what walter was about. and -- and, you know, i take pride in the fact that i was a cronkite producer. i take pride in the fact that when i took a cab with walter, he never had money on him and i had to pay. every single time. i took pride in the fact that he was cheap and i loved him for it. he wa

and that's a little bit of the walter i knew. >> i didn't work with walter.end for a long time. like everyone that knew walter, i was always asked, what's he really like? and i would answer, he's just the way you hope he is. he was always, i thought, the same guy that most of america guessed he was. he was physically brave, and he wasn't afraid to show his emotions. he's generous, fun loving, a courtly gentleman, and good company wherever we were. to steal a line from melville, he was my harvard and my yale. i learned to think and appreciate and observe the world the way walter did. i even learned how to handle my own very, very small celebrity watching him enjoy with good humor, a smile, and patience his slack-jawed admirers. our happy friendship began years ago. we were hosting a financed raiser at my home down on the chesapeake bay. walter and betsy were the celebrity couple. it was a rather dull affair, actually. mrs. cronkite seemed content. she was whistling a little ditty to herself. seemingly. of course, all of us that know betsy's little whistle, and

walter. >>. johnson said "if you've lost walter cronkite, you've lost america." he wasn't bragging. the enormous power and authority of these broadcast giants is something we will never see the like of again. it's interesting he was willing to describe man's first walk on the moon and the same time, the same weekend, to describe the tragedy of chap apquidic. there -- chappaquiddick. there was this incredible narrative ability, truth-telling, story-telling ability. a man almost aside from politics. politics. >> richard

and walter didn't either. >> reporter: walter it seemed was always there. for the moon landing. >> man on the moon. oh, boy. >> thank you. boy. >> reporter: for watergate, the mideast peace break through. he was humble, honest, straight for war and never made himself the story even on a winter day in 1981 when he saint the anchor chair for the last time. >> old anchormen you see don't fade away they just keep coming back for more. and that's the way it is, friday, march 6, 1981. i will be away on assignment. dan rather will be sitting in here for the next few years. good night. >> good night, mr. cronkite. good night and godspeed. anderson cooper, cnn, new york. >>> president obama is reacting to the passing of walter cronkite. he has this to say about the newsman once termed the most trusted man in america even in the most trying of circumstances. >> he was the first to share the devastating news of john f. kennedy's assassination, crystallizing the grief of a nation while fighting back tears of his own. he cheered with every american, when we went to the

you can see walter's correction ins there. this was really what walter was about.s like the man on the moon, and if i could just read like the last section. it's pretty extraordinary. "and so virtually on the eve of our bicentennial, the united states has passed through a day of historic drama, a day many of her citizens had been awaiting with dread, a day some feared would shred the fabric of her society. but the feared has not come to pass. as president ford said in his acceptance speech, our long national nightmare is over. our constitution works. ourcçvvÑ great republic is a government of laws and not of men. here the people rule." this is walter cronkite, cbs news, washington. good night. i get a chill. >> me too. >> and even the copy, you know, it was an orderly succession. you know, there was just amazing lines in this. i think as a 19-year-old going through what the country was going through but also with cronkite, there was a mission. there was nobody that didn't understand that cronkite was about one thing, not about himself as the story, it was about see

. >> and remembering walter cronkite, through the words of the colleagues who knew him best. >> walter smiled after the evening news if he did kind of an amusing piece, i mean it just made your day. >> this is captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> and good evening, the pentagon now confirms a u.s. soldier missing for weeks in afghanistan has been captured by the taliban, the soldier bowe bergdahl is from ketchum, idaho and seen last night in a taliban video posted on-line. tonight, u.s. military is condemning the release of the video as the soldier's family praise for his safe return. >> correspondent man difficult clark has the latest. >> from i'd doe. >> in the video 23-year-old private first class bowe bergdahl appears in good health, questioned in english by his captors he says she being treated like a guest but in the 28 minutes of footage he often looks downcast and says he is afraid. >> scared i won't be able to go home. it is very unnerving to be a prisoner. >> the u.s. military has reacted angrily to the release of the video. >> we a

with walter, the news always came first. the cbs evening news with walter cronkite was about news. it was not about walter cronkite. people understood that. he came through to people. the other part, howie, and the part that i think was most important, walter was just the same off camera as he was on camera. he loved the news. he loved to talk about it. he sounded exactly like he did on television, and everything about him was just the same, that, too, came through. >> he was not a showman, not flashy in the style so many today's television personalities. he was also very competitive, wasn't he, even when he became a big success? >> oh, he loved a scoop and loved no scoop better than when it was his scoop. he thought broadcasting was about getting the news. you know, i was listening to that sound bite there, did people think his fiphilosophy impacted on the way he covered the news. with him it was just finding out what happened. that was what drove walter cronkite. it wasn't ideology or some sort of an agenda. he just wanted to find out and find out before other people. he was the

president walter was -- >> walter was a gold standard, he set the pace. personification of integrity. >> sometimes television is a sports stadium. sometimes it's theater. sometimes it's a movie house. sometime sometimes it's strength. people would come to him and he'd say, walter was the ultimate television preacher who they came to to be told, everything's fine. >> reporter: walter cronkite live out the rest of his years still itching to cover the big stories that broke. accepting the celebrity that followed him everywhere. he worried, though, about the fate of journalism, compromised, he feared, by more instant and sensational global communication. >> journalists, about telling people what they need to know. not what they want to know. you must be responsible if we're going to have the informed public that we need to have to make this democracy work. >> i want to see a script. >> reporter: in the end, walter cronkite remained an optimist who believed mightily in america. >> anything i learned, it's that we americans do have a way of rising to the challe

journalist walter cronkite died. the former cbs news anchor was 92 years old and died at home in new york after a long illness. tributes from fellow journalists and friends are pouring in, honoring the newsman routinely called the most trusted man in america. president obama is also reacting to the passing of walter cronkite. here are some of those tributes. >> in an era before blogs and e-mail, cell phones and cable, he was the news. >> it's hard to imagine a man for whom i had more admiration than cronkite. cronkite is just -- he was a superb reporter, an honorable man, a fine friend and i have nothing but admiration. >> walter cronkite is survived by three children, four grandchildren, his wife betsy died in 2005. >>> walter cronkite's 70-year plus career in journalism covered most of the 20th century and beyond. he anchored the cbs evening news from 1962 to 1981. he was visibly shaken, but a consummate professional bringing us the news of president john f. kennedy's death. he was so excited he could barely speak

walter came into your living room, yet walter was not about flash. walter was about the story. >> that's susan, a cbs news producer who worked with walter cronkite of course, who passed away at the age of 92. take a look at this. she says she kept a copy of the script that cronkite read to the nation the day president nixon resigned. says she keeps it at her desk. take a look at that. he died last night, again, at his home in manhattan after a long illness. cbs owe pisfficials say his fams at his side. again, walter cronkite, 92 years old. >> and that's the way it is. >> that was his signature signoff. and that's the way it is. in fact, one of our news writers on this show remembers those words very well. clint was a college summer intern back at cbs when walter cronkite was working there. and you have a unique story as to how that signature came about. >> yes, betty. this was 1978 when i was an intern there. the international radio television society brought about ten students from around the country to new york. ed bliss was cronkite's chief writer

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and walter didn't either. >> reporter: walter it seemed was always there. for the moon landing. >> man on the moon, oh, boy. >> thank you. >> boy. >> we'll be busy for a minute. >> reporter: for watergate, for the mideast peace breakthrough. he was humble, honest and straight forward and never made himself the story. even on a winter day in 1981 when he sat in the anchor chair for the last time. >> old anchormen don't fade away. they keep coming back for more. that's the way it is. i'll be away on assignment. dan rather will be sitting in for the next few years. goodnight. >> reporter: goodnight, mr. cronkite. goodnight and godspeed, anderson cooper, cnn, newark. >> president obama is asking congress to keep the ball rolling on his proposed health care reform. but six moderate senators say lawmakers should take more time with it. a new government report concluded the bill won't cut long-term health care costs. these senators represent both parties, plus one independent. president obama says this is not time to slow down. >> now i realize that the last few m

it did walter.the essence of his persona. he even looked like your favorite uncle, and he remained a generous man in spirit. he did not become just the most famous, i mean the most trusted man in america but he was one of the most famous men in america and yet, he would always have time when i would see him at a broadway opening when people would rush up to him, he would be courteous and funny and an tentative to them. he had lots of friends that were famous, but he had a lot of friends that no one knew, as well. so he was a man who lived life every day, and he came out of the heartland and traveled the world, and remained true to who he was as a journalist and as a human being. and i think that's something that we all have to keep in mind. the idea of becoming famous as a journalist had not occurred to him when he began. that was not his objective. he simply and had to be a reporter and that he became famous and handled it with such grace along the way is a great tribute to him. >> but he was a rep

and there was no other. >> and this is walter cronkite, good night. >> walter cronkite's wife betsy died of cancer in 2005. they are survived by three children. we'll be right back. ♪ [ female announcer ] for underarms that are sexy smooth, get secret flawless touch with olay. it even reduces irritation caused by shaving. oooooo-lay... [ female announcer ] secret. because you're hot. with annuities from fidelity. turn your savings into income -- guaranteed, and get a retirement "paycheck" for life -- guaranteed. call... to get started, and learn how to secure retirement income that won't go down -- guaranteed. call fidelity at... for details about guaranteed income for life, >>> big day for space exploration. we've got these cool live pictures from nasa. just a little while away, i guess an hour and a half from the first of five scheduled space walks. two members of the 13-astronaut team now housed at the international space station are going to venture outside to help assemble a porch that will be used to hold outdoor experiments. there are now 13 astronauts under that one roof at the s

that's why we love walter. he was the news. >> we are hearing from you, today, as you reflect on this icon when it comes to television journalism. send us your memories. we are reading a lot of them this morning. let me go to my facebook page. daniel says, i will always remember that man. what a class act. he will be missed. billy says i'll always remember him as the voice when jfk was shot. he loved new england and sailing was his passion. i think we all remember the video, the day jfk was shot and killed. the way he brought that news to america. he took us through the most trying times. we saw him get choked up. he was not a man that put his emotions out there. he was real in that sense. >> it's news you react to. again, like you said, the country was depending on him to take him through. it's how people found out. it's going to be okay. we'll make it through it as well. >> he was the most trusted man in america. >>> continue to send your comments to us. you can find us on twitter, facebook, tell us your thou

walter was-- walter would try anything. there is he' a great story.sland and she kept screaming at him, walter, walter, low water, low water. and he kept going and he ran aground. and she said, what's the matter with you? i kept screaming at you low water low water. he said i thought you were saying hello walter. >> steve, talk about the family man that walter cronkite was. i don't hear enough about the the fact that he was married for nearly 65 years, not only do we not see journalists like walter cronkite, rarely see someone so dedicated to their wife like that these days. >> and walter and betsy were a unique couple and she had been also in the news business, but had a lot in common. she was marvelous. she had a delicious sense of humor. even about him. i remember when we were at the races in nassau, the car races and walter insisted upon taking a racing car and whipping around the track a couple of times and betsy turned to me and she said, it looks like we are going to be back here again next year. i said for what, betsy? >> she said the walter c

walter cronkite. laura ingle is standing by in new york to begin our coverage, hello, laura. >> walter cronkite has sparked many loving memories from those who knew him so well and from those who called him the most trusted man in america. he died last night of cerebral vascular disease at age 92 with his family by his side. many watched him deliver the news reporting from the front lines of world events like the vietnam war and the voice of authority and the first to report president kennedy's death in 1963. well, cronkite was in on some of the darkest hours in our nation's history, he took us for a magnificent ride, the news, including the apollo 11 moon landing. >> 22, thanks a lot. >> oh, boy. . >> reporter: and that tangible joy was felt around the world and you see that smile. cronkite passed away three days before the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, among been considered an authority on the space program. and president obama had this reaction. >> walter cronkite was more than a name. some

this is walter cronkite reporting. in 1996 he told us how he felt about the amazing century he had witnessed. >> if there's anything i have learned it's that americans have the way of rising to the challenges, we suddenly show a remarkable -- it does seem darkest before the dawn. there's reason to hope for the 21st century and that's the way it will be. >> he touched a countless number of lives and inspired journalists. we'll share more information of walter cronkite's death. to show your favorite memories, go to wjz.com and then tomorrow tune in for a prime time special, that's the way it was, remembering walter cronkite. that's here on wjz. >>> two men shot, the first was a double shooting in the 600 block of mccabe avenue. both injuries are non-life threatening. and the other happen a little while later, one man was shot in the back and expected to survive survive. >>> police are looking for two suspects suspects that shot and killed a liquor store owner. they killed the owner. the employees are still shaken. >> eve

television. >> hello, i'm walter cronkite. >> as walter grew in stature, television news grew in stature. cronkite made cbs news respectable sna he began anchoring the evening news in 1962, two years later, perhaps the defining moment of his career. >> the flash apparent official, president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> reporter: after a trip to vietnam, rare statement of opinion. >> to say that we are mired in the stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory conclusion. >> reporter: outer space seemed to excite him most. >> man on the moon. phew, boinchts okay, we're going to be busy for a minute. >> the biggest thing about him is he loved reporting and presenting the news. he had a passion for it. if the audience recognized that he really cared about it. >> reporter: today that audience remembered. >> i don't know, i just felt safe watching walter cronkite. >> when you think about american news he's the first guy you think about it. >> reporter: cronkite retired reluctantly. >> we'll we've been meetingike this in the evenings and i'll miss that. and tha

that being walter cronkite. he died last night at the age of 92 and so many people are reflecting today on the kind of impact he had on their lives. here's what cbs's katie couric said on cnn's "larry king live." >> you are the current anchor of the "cbs evening news." you sit not exactly but you sit in walter cronkite's claire. how does that feel every night? >> well, it is a huge responsibility, and i have to say slightly intimidating when i took this job, and you know, for a number of days we've known at cbs news that walter was in failing health, and we were all worried about when this day would come, and he was so revered and so belove here, and i've read so much, john, in recent days and, really, throughout my career about walter, but i've been reminded, really, only recently what incredible man and journalist he was. i mean, he was the personification of integrity and decency and hue mandy. that's one thing that struck me as i've watched some of the earlier broadcasts from the past. you know, when he anno

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it's a walter's script.ve writer, it was written by charlie russ, but the 37th president of united states died today. this is what cronkite embodied. we have a special tomorrow night that's the way it was, remembering walter cronkite. what he was and what we tried to do, it wasn't just a great journalist. but he took the country through its history. it was very comforting fact. if i can, i would like to read the last couple of lines of this. >> julie: please, do. >> he said, i'm eve of the bicentennial, the united states has passed through a day of historic drama, a day that many citizens had been waiting for dread, that would shred the fabric of the society. in his acceptance speech, long national nightmare is over. our constitution worked and great recipe is a government of laws, not of men. here, the people rule. this is walter cronkite, good night. >> julie: i get chills, i just got chills when you read that. >> you know, when lyndon johnson had left office, this is another remarkable story. walter had g

under walter, walter embodied kind of the best of everything and the best to aspire to. there were three networks at that point, and walter was the most important man. you lived and died by what he said, how he wanted pieces to be told. you were answerable to walter when walter picked up the phone, you were scared to death, but on the other hand, it was a core value in what we did, and, you know, it was a time when one voice mattered. >> 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. >> reached that moment where he took off his glasses, looked at the clock and said, president kennedy has died, and i -- you know, that was one of the earliest moments i can remember that i really wanted to pursue a career in news, and i watched walter all through the days of the apollo space program and i remember him saying on july 20, 1969 that man has landed on the moon. >> the eagle has landed. >> roger. thanks a lot. >> whew. oh, boy. whew, boy. >> we'll be busy for a minute.

thanks, walter.o we'll continue to keep you update and a we'll find out whether or not we saved that money and just how many vegetables and fruit we gather. >> okay. i am so impressed. that garden looks good. >> thank you. >> yes. >> so much better than expected. but i have help from walter. not everybody has help from walter. so you're probably going to get on the internet or read books. as you can see, not maybe not all of the methods are the best but check it from a reputable website to make sure you're doing the right thing. >> that's so great. >> most nurseries have a little info place, go during a time when it's not so busy. not a saturday afternoon kind of thing but go when there are fewer people there and you can ask them questions about what to do. >> i've enjoyed this journey since you started in the spring and now fwruts of your labor. it's so impressive. >> i'm going to pick my cucumbers and show them today but they needed to grow much more. >> i look forward to the cucumber display. >> w