Countless others have been saying this, but as a child, visits to my grandparents' house always included the family gathering around the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, parents and grandparents primed with fresh cups of coffee and slices of coffee cake. I was still young when he retired and Dan Rather took his place ("Seems like a nice young man, but he's no Cronkite" was pretty much the sentiment for at least a decade in that house. Luckily for Dan, he finally won them over.).
These pivotal clips are as much a part of our history as the events themselves. Thanks to the Huffington Post for so conveniently gathering them together for me to poach and post here.
Reporting on the JFK assassination in 1963:
Reporting on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968:
Cronkite remembering his moving and influential 1968 Tet Offensive editorial:
And that's the way it is.