Following almost exactly one month on earlier reports that he was gravely ill, which were followed, in turn, by denials of those reports, Walter Cronkite has died at the age of 92. And that's the way it was.
My earlier post, and one story of Cronkite's brush with Cronkite's brush with racism and a strong Latina woman, is here.
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