RIP, Uncle Walter

Walter Cronkite, newsman and CBS anchorman, has died at age 92. He was the model of what an anchorman should be. The ones who followed him, on all of the networks, all strove to be as good as Walter Cronkite and never quite made it. Hell, they never came close.

When Apollo 11 began its flight to the Moon, maybe 40 seconds after it took off, the director at CBS cut to the camera that was on Cronkite. He wasn't sitting at his desk looking at a monitor; he was at the window, bending over so he could look up and see the rocket flying, with the camera catching a view of his ass. It was a very telling moment that captured his excitement at what he was seeing.





Fair winds and following seas, Uncle Walter.