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- Full name: Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.
- Born: November 4, 1916
- Birth place: Saint Joseph, Missouri
- Spouse: Betsy Maxwell Cronkite
- Children: Nancy Cronkite, Kathy Cronkite, Walter Cronkite III
- University: University of Texas at Austin
- Trademark signoff: "And that's the way it is"
- Nicknames: Uncle Walter, "The Most Trusted Man in America"
- First signed to CBS Television in 1950
- Started career in journalism in 1937
- Wife Betsy died on March 15, 2005