
Walter Cronkite
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 15 years ago |
Date of birth | November 4,1916 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Saint Joseph |
Missouri | |
United States | |
Date of died | July 17,2009 |
Died | New York |
New York | |
United States | |
Height | 182 (cm) |
Job | Journalist |
Newsreader | |
Voice acting | |
Radio personality | |
Film Editor | |
Television producer | |
Television Editor | |
Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom |
TCA Lifetime Achievement Award | |
Nierenberg Prize | |
Evelyn F. Burkey Award | |
Peabody Award | |
Spouse | Mary Elizabeth Maxwell Cronkite |
Children | Kathy Cronkite |
Walter Leland Cronkite III | |
Nancy Elizabeth Cronkite | |
Education | Moody College of Communication |
Grandchildren | Pete Cronkite |
Walter Cronkite IV | |
John Ikard | |
Will Ikard | |
Parents | Walter Leland Cronkite |
Helen Lena Cronkite | |
Place of burial | Mount Moriah Cemetery, Missouri, United States |
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ID | 449183 |
Conversations with Cronkite
Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home
Around America: A Tour of Our Magnificent Coastline
South by Southeast
The United States Constitution
North by Northeast
Cronkite Remembers
Westwind
The All You Want to Know About United States Constitution: The Constitution, The Bill of Rights and Additional Amendments
George Washington
Walter Cronkite
Man on the Moon: A Selection of the Original, Live Broadcasts/Audio Cassette
Walter Cronkite's The 60 Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows of the 20th Century
The First Priority of Humankind: Walter Cronkite's Speech at the United Nations
Silent Night, Holy Night: The Story of the Christmas Truce
Reflections on the Life, Assassination, and Legacy of John F. Kennedy
All You Want to Know About the United States Constitution: The Constitutional Convention and the Ratification Debates
Harry S. Truman
The Story of the United States Constitution
Visualizing the Public Spheres: Interviews with Walter Cronkite, Frank Stanton, Reuven Frank, Richard Wald, Robert MacNeil, Cathe Ishino, Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, and Ruprecht Eser and Analyses
The Twentieth Century
Air Power
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
It's News to Me
Great Performances
The U. S. vs. John Lennon
4 Little Girls
Man of the Week
The Living Century
The Dream Is Alive
Walter Cronkite's Universe
JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
Chelsea on the Rocks
SS United States: Lady in Waiting
What Happened, Miss Simone?
The Learning Channel's Great Books
Power for the Parkinsons
Wolf Blitzer Reports
Two for the Money
G. I. Joe: Ernie Pyle
The Facts We Face
Man on the Moon with Walter Cronkite
You Are There: The American Revolution Prepares
Television: The First 50 Years
Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of World War II
Rural Electrification in Ohio: Historic REA Films 1940, 1941
In Celebration of US
Vietnam: Chronicle of a War
You Are There: The Outlaws
The Morning Show
Dinosaur! The Tale of an Egg
You Are There
Liberty's Kids
CBS Reports
Walter Cronkite Life story
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years, 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.
Star Wars spacecraft designer Colin Cantwell dies aged 90
Colin Cantwell , The Artist who designed many of the spacecraft in the Star Wars films, has died at the Age Of 90.
Cantwell's first credit came on Stanley Kubrick 's 1968 sci-fi movie 2001: A Space Odyssey .
Star Wars creator George Lucas then asked him to design and make prototypes for the Death Star , X-Wing, Tie Fighter and Imperial Star Destroyer.
Cantwell's cousin Shannon Eric Denton said he " brought a lot of joy to The World with his art".
: " And for all of us that knew him he brought a lot of joy being himself. "
Cantwell, who also came up with the original design for the Millennium Falcon , was " an incredibly kind human and smart in ways Most People dream of" Denton wrote.
Cantwell was born in Colorado in 1932 and gained a degree in animation before going on to study architecture.
During the 1960s Space Race between the US and Russia, Cantwell worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Nasa, helping The American public to better understand the flights.
This led to him working alongside Tv Journalist Walter Cronkite during his historic Moon Landing broadcast in 1969, providing a link between him and The Astronauts .
Cantwell's interest in both architecture and space saw him prosper in Hollywood, where he worked in special photographic effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey , helping to create The Film 's dramatic space opening scene.
Stars War director Lucas then recruited him, alongside other designers like Ralph Mcquarrie , to help create initial models for the original 1977 film.
'A strange kind of joyous'" The Beginning of The Film after the scroll, The Ship coming by was like one giant dart, " " It kept coming and it kept coming.
" This is what had to compound itself in The First half hour of The Film , " he added. " It had to be all so absurd and different and insanely joyous and perilous that The Audience wouldn't leave. They would want to be in it. The First half hour had to be extraordinarily successful and Beyond Reason .
" It had to be a strange kind of joyous. It is all the impossibilities that are playing together, and that is what makes it Star Wars . It is so many layers that the different characters showed that they are different but doing this giant parody at the same time. "
Cantwell also worked on technical dialogue for Steven Spielberg 's Close Encounters of the Third Kind , was a computer graphics design consultant for WarGames in 1983, and wrote two sci-fi novels.
His long-time partner Sierra Dall that he died at his Colorado home on Friday .
shortly before his death. " I have been So Lucky to be able to spend 24 years with this amazing man, " she wrote. " We have travelled The World together an made many Wonderful Friends .
" I will try to preserve his legacy as best I can. "
Source of news: bbc.com