Walter Cronkite

This past week, the world lost one of the greatest newsman of all time, Walter Cronkite. He was known as Uncle Walter as many people turned in to him to watch the news. Many people referred to him as "the most trusted man in America". I remember growing up watching him on the evening news.

Cronkite was the face of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.

It was Cronkite who read the bulletins coming from Dallas when Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963, interrupting a live CBS-TV broadcast of a soap opera.

Cronkite died just three days before the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, just another moment of history linked with his reporting.

A few years ago, I was able to see him in Salt Lake as he took part in the Tabernacle Choirs annual Christmas program. It was a great experience that I'll always remember.

So it's farewell for another one of the "good guys"