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* 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become " the most trusted man in America ".
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Congressman Walter has been all-powerful in immigration matters, but he has announced plans to retire in 1962.
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* 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
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Moving images of Walter Cronkite reading the news in his studio every night for six years are gone with the exception of his coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the JFK assassination in 1963.
* A small park in the center of town was created in the 1960s to honor Walter M. Schirra, Jr., astronaut, marked by a plaque that reads " Home of Commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., USN, the first Jerseyman to orbit the Earth, Oct 3, 1962 ".
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. ( November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009 ) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years ( 1962 – 81 ).
On April 16, 1962, Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of the CBS Evening News ( initially Walter Cronkite with the News ), a job in which he became an American icon.
Crenna played " Walter Denton " in the CBS radio and CBS-TV network series Our Miss Brooks, and " Luke McCoy " in ABC's TV comedy series, The Real McCoys, ( 1957 – 63 ), which moved to CBS-TV in September 1962.
* 1962: Walter Lippmann, New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, " for his 1961 interview with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, as illustrative of Lippmann's long and distinguished contribution to American journalism.
Eyewitness to History was a CBS Friday night public affairs program which was initially hosted by veteran broadcaster Charles Kuralt ( 1960 -' 61 ), followed by Walter Cronkite ( 1961 -' 62 ), and Charles Collingwood ( 1962 -' 63 ).
" By that time, the program had surpassed CBS's evening news program, Douglas Edwards with the News, in ratings and maintained higher viewership levels for much of the 1960s, even after Walter Cronkite took over CBS's competing program ( initially named Walter Cronkite with the News in 1962 and renamed the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite in 1963 ).
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