Walter Cronkite


The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

02:26

Tabs

About
Interviews
Who talks about this person

Charlie Andrews

View Interview
Charlie Andrews on working with Walter Cronkite and Dick Van Dyke on The Morning Show and his experience with the Hollywood Blacklist
03:43

Walter Bernstein

View Interview
Walter Bernstein on whether the host of You Are There, Walter Cronkite, or any of the other correspondents, knew that the writers of the show were blacklisted
00:55

Tom Bettag

View Interview
Tom Bettag on Walter Cronkite, anchor of CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
04:27

Wade Bingham

View Interview
Wade Bingham on Walter Cronkite hosting The Twentieth Century and The Twenty-First Century
00:43

Ed Bradley

View Interview
Ed Bradley on the role television played in shaping public opinion about Vietnam, and on Walter Cronkite's role as communicator
01:46

James L. Brooks

View Interview
James L. Brooks on wanting Walter Cronkite on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
00:48

Charles Cappleman

View Interview
Charles Cappleman on Walter Cronkite
00:42

Connie Chung

View Interview
Connie Chung on getting hired at CBS News
01:12
Connie Chung on her colleagues at CBS News
03:02
Connie Chung on working with Walter Cronkite
01:44
Connie Chung on Walter Cronkite appearing on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
00:17

Nick Clooney

View Interview
Nick Clooney on a picture of him with Walter Cronkite at the presentation of Fail Safe, produced by George Clooney
01:09

Ann Curry

View Interview
Ann Curry on watching Walter Cronkite's news broadcasts with her father when she was growing up
01:57

Phil Donahue

View Interview
Phil Donahue on getting his first national exposure on CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and a phone call from Walter Cronkite
03:30
Phil Donahue on his admiration for Walter Cronkite
00:33

Louis Dorfsman

View Interview
Louis Dorfsman on Walter Cronkite appearing on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
11:25

Mike Douglas

View Interview
Mike Douglas on news anchor Walter Cronkite
01:52

Bob Doyle

View Interview
Bob Doyle on working with Walter Cronkite and Betty Furness at the 1952 presidential conventions
02:45

Dick Ebersol

View Interview
Dick Ebersol on Walter Cronkite's telegram to Jim McKay
00:29

Jamie Farr

View Interview
Jamie Farr on appearing on You Are There
00:38

John Frankenheimer

View Interview
John Frankenheimer on working on You Are There  
00:06

Murray Fromson

View Interview
Murray Fromson on Walter Cronkite's visit to Vietnam
01:56
Murray Fromson on what he told Walter Cronkite on his visit to Vietnam
03:15

Julian Goodman

View Interview
Julian Goodman on Walter Cronkite dominating coverage of the 1952 Presidential Convention
02:11
Julian Goodman on CBS' Walter Cronkite announcing JFK's death, and NBC's announcement
00:51
Julian Goodman on news coverage of the moon landing
01:12

Buck Henry

View Interview
Buck Henry on appearing on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, explaining his prank-organization S.I.N.A (the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals) which was treated as a real-news piece and caused a rift between him and Cronkite ever since

Don Hewitt

View Interview
Don Hewitt on why the public trusted Walter Cronkite
02:37
Don Hewitt on covering the political conventions in 1948 and 1952, and on anchors Douglas Edwards and Walter Cronkite
07:59

Bob Markell

View Interview
Bob Markell on working with Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Robert Trout and Charles Collingwood on You Are There
00:41
Bob Markell on working with Walter Cronkite
01:34

Jim McKay

View Interview
Jim McKay on working with Walter Cronkite on The Morning Show on CBS as the sports guy
05:22
Jim McKay on his long friendship with Walter Cronkite
00:39

Sig Mickelson

View Interview
Sig Mickelson on CBS News' coverage of the Japanese Peace Conference which included Walter Cronkite
11:58
Sig Mickelson on his involvement with Walter Cronkite
02:03
Sig Mickelson on Walter Cronkite anchoring CBS News' coverage of the conventions and on inventing the term "anchorman"
02:24
Sig Mickelson on why Walter Cronkite was selected to cover Elizabeth II's coronation for CBS News over Edward R. Murrow
01:10
Sig Mickelson on Walter Cronkite anchoring the 1960 Winter Olympics from Squaw Valley
02:15
Sig Mickelson on CBS News' coverage of the 1960 political conventions anchored by Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, and on their different styles
03:29

Roger Mudd

View Interview
Roger Mudd on Walter Cronkite getting hired at CBS and his competition at NBC; on trying to get pieces onto Cronkite's show
09:11
Roger Mudd on Walter Cronkite killing one of his stories on Ronald Reagan
02:57
Roger Mudd on learning of Walter Cronkite's retirement
04:57

Abraham Polonsky

View Interview
Abraham Polonsky on the format of You Are There, and on Walter Cronkite as the host
04:52

Dan Rather

View Interview
Dan Rather on Walter Cronkite's retirement
13:12
Dan Rather on Walter Cronkite's quote about him being up to his ass in water moccassins, while Rather was covering Hurricane Carla in 1960
21:57
Dan Rather on anchor Walter Cronkite and Rather's path to Vietnam
03:56
Dan Rather on an incident that occurred while talking to Walter Cronkite during the 1968 DNC
05:12

Tim Reid

View Interview
Tim Reid on learning the real reason behind the cancellation of Frank's Place
04:05

Morley Safer

View Interview
Morley Safer on Walter Cronkite
01:22

John Silva

View Interview
John Silva on introducing Walter Cronkite to Klaus Landsberg
01:25

Bob Simon

View Interview
Bob Simon on the role Walter Cronkite had in arranging a historic meeting between Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin
01:05

Howard K. Smith

View Interview
Howard K. Smith on Walter Cronkite on television and in front of a podium
00:31
Howard K. Smith on his thoughts on Walter Cronkite
00:31

Sanford Socolow

View Interview
Sanford Socolow on Walter Cronkite's report on Watergate resulting in the White House launching an assault on William Paley and Frank Stanton
10:19
Sanford Socolow on he and Walter Cronkite both having a background in the wire service; on his first encounter with Cronkite
01:08
Sanford Socolow going to Israel with Walter Cronkite to conduct interviews for the televised Adolf Eichmann trial
02:01
Sanford Socolow on the Russians putting the first man in space and Walter Cronkite anchoring coverage of where the U.S. stood in the space race
01:14
Sanford Socolow on producing CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite; on the show becoming 30 minutes instead of 15
04:31
Sanford Socolow on Eric Sevareid and Harry Reasoner's contributions to CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
02:48
Sanford Socolow on the decision to replace Douglas Edwards with Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News
02:04
Sanford Socolow on Walter Cronkite interviewing Frank Sinatra and asking about Sinatra's alleged mafia ties and Sinatra pulling Don Hewitt into another room
01:20
Sanford Socolow on what Walter Cronkite brought to CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
01:13
Sanford Socolow on Walter Cronkite's famous sign-off on CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite  - "And that's the way it is" 
02:15
Sanford Socolow on how Walter Cronkite became "the most trusted man in America" and the story behind Cronkite's on-air condemnation of the Vietnam War (which Cronkite delivered on a special primetime report, not on the CBS Evening News)
05:13
Sanford Socolow on his professional relationship with Walter Cronkite and some of the disagreements they had (involving Dan Rather's location during Kennedy's assassination)
05:24
Sanford Socolow on he and Walter Cronkite sharing a wire service background and both being hard news guys; on a disagreement they had over the film "The China Syndrome"
02:53
Sanford Socolow on socializing with Walter Cronkite and the demands on Cronkite's time
02:14
Sanford Socolow on Walter Cronkite's announcement that President Kennedy was dead
02:01
Sanford Socolow on CBS' coverage of the Civil Rights Movement and Walter Cronkite never reporting on the scene during the Movement
03:44
Sanford Socolow on Walter Cronkite's coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and Cronkite interviewing Mayor Daley
04:35
Sanford Socolow on Walter Cronkite's coverage of the Moon Landing
01:37
Sanford Socolow on the competition between CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and The Huntley-Brinkley Report
05:45
Sanford Socolow on the circumstances around Walter Cronkite's retirement
10:27

Frank Stanton

View Interview
Frank Stanton on Walter Cronkite
03:25

James Wall

View Interview
James Wall on stage-managing CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
08:20
James Wall on traveling with Walter Cronkite while he was covering various presidents
04:53
James Wall on being on-hand for Walter Cronkite's final broadcast of CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
02:04
James Wall on being at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago with Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather
05:34

Barbara Walters

View Interview
Barbara Walters on Walter Cronkite's involvement in securing interviews with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin
07:19

Joseph Wershba

View Interview
Joseph Wershba on working with Walter Cronkite
05:21
Joseph Wershba on the relationship between Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow
02:46
Joseph Wershba on Edward R. Murrow's relationships with William S. Paley and Walter Cronkite
03:05
Joseph Wershba on Walter Cronkite
01:24

Av Westin

View Interview
Av Westin on various people with whom he worked at CBS News
03:36

Brian Williams

View Interview
Brian Williams on his affinity for Walter Cronkite and Johnny Carson
02:09

Perry Wolff

View Interview
Perry Wolff on working with Walter Cronkite on Air Power
03:01
Perry Wolff on working with Eric Sevareid and his strained relationship with Walter Cronkite 
04:17

All People

A
B
C
D
F
G
H
K
L
M
P
R
S
T
W