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Walter Cronkite. Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 â July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962â1981). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as the most trusted man in America after being so named in an opinion poll.