http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/07/17/Newsman-Walter-Cronkite-dies-at-92/UPI-58181247878099/

NEW YORK, July 17 (UPI) -- Walter Cronkite, a broadcast journalism pioneer who became known as the most trusted man in America, died Friday in New York, CBS News reported. He was 92.

Cronkite suffered from cerebrovascular disease, which affects vessels that supply blood to the brain. His family issued a statement last month saying he was "very ill and )was) not expected to recuperate."

Cronkite anchored the "CBS Evening News" for two decades, beginning in 1961 until his retirement in 1981 at age 65 -- reporting on the Cold War, civil rights, the assassination of President John Kennedy, Vietnam, Watergate and the U.S. space program.

In a 1972 poll, Americans named him "the most trusted man in America."

Cronkite was a reporter's reporter for more than half a century in a career that carried him from World War II foxholes to the Great Wall of China to the launch pad of the U.S. space program.

Cronkite's national reputation as a journalist began at United Press, the forerunner of United Press International, where he honed the writing skills that became the hallmark of his later reports for the CBS television network.

His sign-off each evening, "And that's the way it is," is among the most familiar quotations in television history.