<\/a>Kennedy assassination (1963)<\/p><\/div>\n
He was the man at the center of virtually every major news story that unfolded during the second half of the century. Our collective memories of the Kennedy Assassination, the 1968 Democratic convention, the first lunar landing, the Vietnam War and Watergate will forever be linked to his voice, his face, and his calm and reassuring manner. \u201cUnflappable\u201d and \u201cavuncular\u201d are two words I first heard associated with him. They were synonymous with his character and personality.<\/p>\n
Despite his immense fame and power (as evidenced when he brought Middle East leaders Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin together for their first summit), he never placed himself above the stories he reported. True to his newspaper and wire-service roots, he cherished clear, correct, concise writing on the air and in print. He never lost his quintessential Middle American sensibilities. And unlike many of his lesser contemporaries, he never cashed in on the public\u2019s trust \u2014 and he never sold out.<\/p>\n
As I approached middle age and Walter ascended to his status as a revered elder statesman, our friendship endured. \u201cI hope that the president of my first fan club has a very happy birthday,\u201d he wrote when I turned 40. \u201cThe fact that your brainchild also was my only fan club has given that long-ago vote of confidence particular luster in my memory.\u201d<\/p>\n
One other line in that letter was pure Walter: \u201cNow that you have moved from youth to baby boomer, do you still love me?\u201d<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t imagine that he\u2019d even have to ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Each year just before his birthday on Nov. 4, I would send Walter Cronkite a tie. And each year on that day, the anchorman of \"The CBS Evening News\" would wear the tie on the air before his audience of millions. Walter and I kept up that tradition all through my high school years and... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}