Walter Cronkite

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1916 age 0

   Born

2. 1995 age 79

   CreditApollo 13

3. 2009 age 92

   Died

4. 2013 age 92

   CreditThe Butler

5. 2020 age 92

   CreditThe Trial of the Chicago 7

• WDWayne Duvall2 titles
• MJMartin Luther King Jr.2 titles
• THTom Hanks1 title
• GSGary Sinise1 title
• GBGeoffrey Blake1 title
• GFGerald Ford1 title
• JHJames Horner1 title
• BPBill Paxton1 title
• LMLaurie MacDonald1 title
• WPWalter F. Parkes1 title

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• And that's the way it is. ...[reads date]. This is Walter Cronkite, CBS News; good night.

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• We recognize, however dimly, that greater efficiency, ease, and security may come at a substantial price in freedom, that can be a version of oppression, that individual liberties surrendered for whatever good reason are freedom lost.

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• I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation, really.

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• Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.

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• More details just arrived. These details about the same as previously: President Kennedy shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas; Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Mr. Kennedy, she called 'Oh, no!'; the motorcade sped on. United Press says that the wounds for President Kennedy perhaps could be fatal.

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• From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official: President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time, 2:00 Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago. [pause as Cronkite fights back tears, then regains his composure] Vice President Johnson [clears throat] has left the hospital in Dallas, but we do not know to where he has proceeded; presumably, he will be taking the oath of office shortly and become the 36th President of the United States...

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