Walter Cronkite (1916–2009)
Autor/a de A Reporter's Life
Sobre l'autor
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'n més 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'n menys
Obres de Walter Cronkite
Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism (2004) 11 exemplars
Vietnam Perspective CBS News Special Report 5 exemplars
The ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION: "The Constitution, The Bill of Rights and Additional… (1998) 5 exemplars
Walter Cronkite Selects: The 60 Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows That Transitioned to TV (20 cassettes, 30 hours) (2001) 3 exemplars
Amandla! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony [DVD] 2 exemplars
Man on the moon 1 exemplars
The Constitution Convention Box Set 2 1 exemplars
I Can Hear It Now / The Sixties 1 exemplars
World War II ; The Seeds Of War 1 exemplars
The United States Constitution: U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Additional Amendments/Audio Cassettes (1987) 1 exemplars
American Milestones: 55 Events That Shook The Nation - 1850-2000 Original News Coverage From The New York Times… — Introducció — 1 exemplars
Texas: The State of Water Finding a Balance 1 exemplars
Texas: The State of Springs 1 exemplars
Greatest Shows of the 20th Century; the Life of Riley, Father's Day 06-19-48 (2000 Publishing, 20061948) (2000) 1 exemplars
World War II with Walter Cronkite 1 exemplars
World War II with Walter Cronkite (15 vol) 1 exemplars
A Day in the Life of the American Armed Forces 1 exemplars
Pointless pollution America's water crisis 1 exemplars
Scandinavia 1 exemplars
Great Speeches of Abba Eban 1 exemplars
War In The Pacfic 1 exemplars
Obres associades
First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War (2006) — Pròleg — 246 exemplars
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (2002) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 172 exemplars
Ruth Bell Graham: Celebrating an Extraordinary Life (2003) — Narrador, algunes edicions — 91 exemplars
Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Archives of the Associated Press (2004) — Introducció — 24 exemplars
Liberty's Kids - The First Fourth of July — Narrador — 7 exemplars
NOVA: Secret of the Wild Child: The Revealing Story of Genie [1994 TV episode] (2006) — Narrador — 7 exemplars
A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy [1962 TV movie] — Commentary — 7 exemplars
Liberty's Kids - Give Me Liberty — Actor — 6 exemplars
Reader's Digest Young Families: Liberty's Kids Midnight Ride [video] (2003) — Narrador — 4 exemplars
Dream to Fly: Howard Hughes & The Flying Boat [2005 film] — Narrador — 4 exemplars
Nixon in China [1988 TV episode] — Host — 2 exemplars
The United States Constitution Volume II The Constitution the Bill of Rights and Additional Ammendments narrated by… (1987) — Narrador, algunes edicions — 1 exemplars
Lucky Man, Memories of a Life in Communication, with a foreword by Walter Cronkite — Pròleg — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- CRONKITE, Walter
- Data de naixement
- 1916-11-04
- Data de defunció
- 2009-07-17
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- New York, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- St. Joseph, Missouri, USA (birth)
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Houston, Texas, USA
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educació
- University of Texas
- Professions
- journalist
editor
news anchor - Relacions
- Cronkite, Kathy (daughter)
- Organitzacions
- CBS
- Premis i honors
- 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-les totes 7)
Bellarmine Medal
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A Reporter's Life de Walter Cronkite
An inside look at the US from the 1920's to the end of the twentieth century, and great insight into what made Walter Cronkite the most trusted man in the country in the 1960's and 1970's. I thoroughly enjoyed this story and that surprised me, as I thought I would be reading another somewhat boring "look at me" type of book. His time overlaps my time, having grown up in the sixties, so I am sure I have a bias here. It is one of the few books of the thousands that I have read that I would revisit. Excellent writing style, very engaging.… (més)
A massive book, in number of pages, dimensions, content, photographs maps and paintings, a veritable encyclopedia of the many hundreds of threatened and vulnerable birds and their habitats the world over. It makes for rather grim reading, however, especially the gruesome details of how modern man (mainly Europeans) have slaughtered birds in the millions, bringing many of the most prolific and numerous to extinction in the last 500 years or less. The ecological accounts (divided by biomes) are a bit elementary and pitched to a school level, which of course does not gainsay the wealth of site-specific information and photographs. Definitely a milestone, a classic publication, and a great addition to the bird lover's collection.… (més)
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- Obres
- 68
- També de
- 31
- Membres
- 1,962
- Popularitat
- #13,103
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 16
- ISBN
- 89
- Llengües
- 3
- Preferit
- 1
