Regarding the letter to the editor "Public's loss of trust in the media long predates the last 4 years" (Dec. 12): The writer cites Walter Cronkite's commentary in 1968 suggesting negotiations as an ...

Believe it or not, there was a time, in another America, where, with a few words, a network TV anchor could trigger a seismic shift in public opinion. On February 27, 1968, Walter Cronkite, anchoring ...

Many of you, I have to assume, were watching TV in the late 1960s as images of blood and death in Vietnam and protests against that war were becoming more frequent features of the evening network news ...

A vigorous 64 years old, Cronkite had stepped down with the assurance that other duties awaited him at CBS News, but found little demand there for his services. He hosted the shortlived science ...