Beloved journalist Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. is born in Saint Joseph. Missouri. Cronkite, the face of CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981, reported on World War II, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy assassination, and major events of the U.S. space program.
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