Walter Cronkite (1916–2009)
Autore di A Reporter's Life
Sull'Autore
Walter Cronkite was born in St. Louis, Missouri on November 4, 1916. As a teenager, he got a job with The Houston Post as a copy boy and cub reporter. In college, he worked part-time for the Houston Press, a paper he joined full-time after leaving the University of Texas in 1935. From 1940 to 1949, mostra altro he reported for the United Press wire service. One of the first journalists accredited to cover World War II, Cronkite accompanied Allied forces into North Africa, reported on the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. At the end of the war, he became UP's bureau chief in Moscow and then its chief correspondent at the Nuremburg war crimes trials. After returning to the United States in 1948, he covered Washington, D.C., for a group of radio stations before joining CBS, where he remained for the rest of his career, first working on various news programs and then, in 1962, becoming anchor of the CBS Evening News. Over the years, Cronkite covered such events as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the moon landing of Apollo II (staying on the air 24 hours to do so), the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal. He twice visited Vietnam during the war, and, after the Tet offensive in 1968, candidly questioned the rationale for American involvement and the U.S. military's prospects for victory. He won numerous awards including several Emmy Awards, the Peabody Award in 1962, the William A. White Journalism Award in 1969, the George Polk Award in 1971, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. After his retirement in 1981, Cronkite continued to work on special projects for CBS and wrote his autobiography A Reporter's Life in 1996. He died from was complications of dementia on July 17, 2009 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Walter Cronkite
The ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION: "The Constitution, The Bill of Rights and Additional… (1998) 5 copie
Walter Cronkite Selects: The 60 Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows That Transitioned to TV (20 cassettes, 30 hours) (2001) 3 copie
Man on the moon 1 copia
Greatest Shows of the 20th Century; the Life of Riley, Father's Day 06-19-48 (2000 Publishing, 20061948) (2000) 1 copia
The United States Constitution: U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Additional Amendments/Audio Cassettes (1987) 1 copia
American Milestones: 55 Events That Shook The Nation - 1850-2000 Original News Coverage From The New York Times… — Introduzione — 1 copia
Texas: The State of Springs 1 copia
I Can Hear It Now / The Sixties 1 copia
Scandinavia 1 copia
Great Speeches of Abba Eban 1 copia
War In The Pacfic 1 copia
World War II ; The Seeds Of War 1 copia
Opere correlate
First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War (2006) — Prefazione — 247 copie
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (2002) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 173 copie
Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Archives of the Associated Press (2004) — Introduzione — 24 copie
Liberty's Kids - The First Fourth of July — Narratore — 7 copie
NOVA: Secret of the Wild Child: The Revealing Story of Genie [1994 TV episode] (2006) — Narratore — 7 copie
A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy [1962 TV movie] — Commentary — 7 copie
Liberty's Kids - Give Me Liberty — Actor — 6 copie
Dream to Fly: Howard Hughes & The Flying Boat [2005 film] — Narratore — 4 copie
Nixon in China [1988 TV episode] — Host — 2 copie
The United States Constitution Volume II The Constitution the Bill of Rights and Additional Ammendments narrated by… (1987) — Narratore, alcune edizioni — 1 copia
Lucky Man, Memories of a Life in Communication, with a foreword by Walter Cronkite — Prefazione — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- CRONKITE, Walter
- Data di nascita
- 1916-11-04
- Data di morte
- 2009-07-17
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- St. Joseph, Missouri, USA (birth)
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Houston, Texas, USA
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- University of Texas
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
editor
news anchor - Relazioni
- Cronkite, Kathy (daughter)
- Organizzazioni
- CBS
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1981)
Peabody Award (1962 ∙ 1981)
William A. White Award for journalistic merit (1969)
George Polk Journalism Award (1971)
Gold Medal, International Radio and Television Society (1974)
Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism (1978 ∙ 1981) (mostra tutto 7)
Bellarmine Medal
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 16
- ISBN
- 89
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 1