Biography
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. Cronkite received numerous honors including two Peabody Awards, a George Polk Award, an Emmy Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Awards & recognition
- Nierenberg Prize · 2002
- Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award · 1998
- International Space Hall of Fame · 1996
- Ischia International Journalism Award · 1995
- Trustees Award · 1982
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- Presidential Medal of Freedom · 1981
- Peabody Awards · 1980
- George Polk Award · 1970
- Award of Honor of the National Cartoonists Society · 1965
- Peabody Awards · 1962
- Evelyn F. Burkey Award
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Speech
- Great Silver Medal of Honour — Services to the Republic of Austria
- Library of Congress Living Legend
Filmography50+ titles
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
JFK: One PM Central Standard Time
Dateline: Saigon
Apollo 11
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Network
Sally
Liberty's Kids
All the President's Men
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
The Pixar Story
The Sixties
Apollo 13
8 Days: To the Moon and Back
The Seventies
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
Reversing Roe
American Masters
One to One: John & Yoko
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
Apollo: The Forgotten Films
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Milk
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
4 Little Girls
Apollo 13: Survival
Challenger: The Final Flight
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Thirteen Days
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
I Am Richard Pryor
Ethel
Fail Safe
The Man Who Saved the World
The Dick Cavett Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
Gloria: In Her Own Words
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Mike Wallace Is Here
Studio 54
The Reagan Show
Amandla!
American Experience
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner
The Martha Mitchell Effect