Cronkite anchored the CBS Evening News from 1962-1981. Over those 19 years, he marveled at Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, grieved as President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and concluded the Vietnam War was a stalemate.
On the hundredth anniversary of Cronkite’s birth, and just a few days before the presidential election, we wanted to gauge his legacy, seven years after his death.
We speak with Douglas Brinkley, history professor at Rice University and Walter Cronkite biographer. Brinkley explains what he thinks is Cronkite's lasting legacy.
