The LA Times has reported that:   Walter Cronkite, the television newsman whose steady baritone informed, reassured and guided the nation during the tumultuous 1960s and ’70s and who was still regarded as “the most trusted man in America” years after leaving his CBS anchor chair, has died. He was 92.

♦Walter Cronkite Bio♦

Cronkite died Friday at his home in New York after a long illness, according to CBS Vice President Linda Mason.

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