"And that's the way it is": Walter Cronkite's final sign off
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- čas přidán 5. 03. 2014
- From the CBS News archives, legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite signs off for the final time on the "CBS Evening News." Cronkite manned the anchor desk from April, 16, 1962 until March 6, 1981.
"Old anchormen, you see, never die. They just keep coming back for more."
Oh I wish they'd come back
@@mdscownz ikr! I wish he would come back too!
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I watched him back in the day. He was my favorite news anchor. I actually cried on the night of his last broadcast. I know silly kid. RIP Sir.
Walter Cronkite burned a Human effigy every year in the Bohemian grove.
We need a walter cronkite asap. They don't exist today!
@@joesmith6357 no they don’t exist today.
@@estelleacocella9818*cough cough* Judy Woodruff had just recently left PBSNewsHour.
@@estelleacocella9818 We grew up in a great time ...hello from NYC
You can tell he just wants to cry but he doesn't.
What a man.
What a professional.
Exactly what my dad said too. And he also said that he doesn’t know what it is about this man, but he believes the words he says, and that was a comfort for a newcomer to the United States. And that’s the way it is.
He only really showed emotion twice in his career. Once when Kennedy was shot, and later when we confirmed landing on the moon.
Yeah there really was something about Walter Cronkite that's very believable and trustworthy , wholesome and gentlemanly ; he had an understated humble type of class .
You sense a certain generosity and compassion in his spirit that is truly gentle ... real decent human being .
The last of the good (and honest) reporters of our time . He got a lot of practice talking on the HAM radio too , him and Barry Goldwater
Is he still around?
He was just as liberal as any other so-called "journalist". He just came across as less shrill.
@@fredkelso1089 He died in 2009 at 92.
@@razorback9926 I just dont remember hearing about it
@@francismallard5892 A "so-called journalist"? Oh please. Give it a rest. He was a giant in journalism. To you wingnuts anyone who isn't a far right reactionary is "liberal."
When news was a 30-60 minute snapshot of the days events , not the 24 hour ongoing trilogy of stories that slowly morph into one another by the mundane butter heads that litter today's "news channels"
Wow, idk how I got on this rabbit hole, but this was six years ago.... and you thought it was bad then! Cheers! Hope your doing well fellow human ❤️
Jesus I thought this was a comment from maybe a couple of months ago. It's sad to see how this hasn't changed.
This is why ABC, NBC, and CBS are important. They truly embody what the news should be--unbiased and actually informative.
"Butterheads" is now apart of my vocabulary. Thank you sir/madam
And their conga-lines of experts, who know absolutely nothing
I miss hearing his voice and listening to him. He was a great guy, and that's the way it is.
You are an old man, your back hurts
@@lumpylumpyloo aren’t you a kind soul!
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Yeah bro it hurts from the things that make it easier for you buddy
Kinda wish your mom would’ve cleaned you off her back
66 years old and just wanted to hear him say it, I must miss him too
When news was news. Goodnight, Uncle Walter.
Damn this was powerful. 40 year old clip and it still brought a tear to my eye
Man you have deep emotional issues
He was a liar and worked to control people. Checkout his Vietnam broadcasts and the JFK broadcast. Definitely CIA
I like the way he did it, no sappy words, no tears. Just a very professional man, doing what he did best...being a great professional news anchor. It was before my time, but my dad said that he was one of the, if not the best news anchors of all time. After watching some of his archive footage, I have a hard time disagreeing with that. He always came across as very genuine and actually giving a damn about what happens in this country. These days? Eh, not so much.
He did nearly cry when reporting the death of John Kennedy.
These days the local and national news has become nothing but a beauty pageant of women who take the jobs they are given on a silver platter as a joke.
@@VictorFr0st He didn't. When you watch it, he kept his composure intact, taking off his glasses, then putting them back on as it is unmanly for a man to show emotions or to cry. He was a pillar of strength especially when the country need a pillar of strength to rely on and to lean on in a most turbulent time that was needed the most.
Unmanly lol ok
R.I.P. Walter Cronkite
Happy 100th, Walter.
Walter Cronkite was a trusted American in the homes of all of America.
I would not believe a president. I would not believe a senator. I would not believe a priest. And if mom said it, we'd have to verify it.
But if Uncle Walter said something we knew it came from the bottom of his heart and he had checked and re-checked it.
And we believed him.
I long for the next trusted person this national can believe in.
Jeeeeeee-zus! If you trusted old uncle Walt, his successor, Dan Blather, and the crew of Pravda West at See-B-S, then you must hang on every word of our beloved POTUS American Pharaoh, The Dog Eater, Allah praise his name.
Thanks for the comments. I will have some trusted friends analyze it for sense, if any, and will get back to you. The one portion I think I understood was about our president. I guess you learned all your mistrust and hatred on the knee of your mom. Luckily, haters are in the minority in this country, but people like you keep us amused here and there. And welcome to our country and you can go back to Faux News. I believe they are showing Cruz show Hannity how to cook meat at the end of a hot rifle barrel. .
Guillermo Torres ..not a hater, old son. Just someone who recognizes progressive propaganda when I see/hear it. And, no, I do not think FNS is the second coming. BORE and the rest of those bloviaters suck swamp water as well.
My mother? Screaming liberal Democrat with no clue -- just like you.
Anyway, give my regards to The Chocolate Jesus next time you smooch him on the butt.
Well said, mein brave Internet jester! Good luck at the cross burning!
+Guillermo Torres Cronkite was a liar.
He gave me the inspiration to go into journalism. Thank you Walter.
The Best Newscaster Of All Time A Class Act! RIP Walter Cronkite!
1000% agree
The most trusted man in America. I loved that guy and America lost a true American Hero when he passed on in 2009. Never again will we learn to trust what we hear on TV or radio like we did when WC made CBS Evening News the most watched regularly scheduled news broadcast in the world. And that's the way it is.
When Walter said ' That's the way it is." That's the way it was.
He reported the news. that is all he did. he didnt add his political leanings to it. he didnt whine or complain about it. he just did the news. i respect that. he was the last true journalist this country ever had. what has come since then is not news but entertainment, ideology, indoctrination and mostly unamerican.
Exactly. Unlike these biased pinheads today.
Too bad that's not true. Study his declaration that the Vietnam War was a stalemate and see how many died after he misjudged the outcome of Tet of 1968.
Apparently you missed his tirade on Vietnam, at the worst possible time for the guys fighting that war!
@@williamanthony9090 but turns out he was right
You can blame that on the repeal of the "Fairness Doctrine" in 1987, which led to the rise of partisan television and radio, such as Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
Uncle Walter always had class and integrity. His signoff had great class. His special programs were excellent. I just recently read his autobiography. Quite a life. He got to do some very interesting things during his active career and after his retirement.
Uncle Walter?
Our whole family loved and trusted this man. Don't think anyone ever had a bad word to say about him. He is still missed.
Loved him, what an icon.
Long live the 60s and the 70s.
He kept America informed but in a way that was calming. collected ..professional ..had that voice that made you listen...a proud man...a caring soul...R I.P.
He must be an extraordinary man. To project such hope and reassurance when telling us about some of the most horrible things in history is a gift. He's got a "Mister Rogers" quality about him!
The greatest of the greatest. There'll never be anyone else like Walter Cronkite
I wish our generation had news reporters like this.
One of the finest evening news anchorman in history!
The most trusted name ever in broadcast news
1/9/20. We need this man more than ever.
Total class. Sorely missed in this day & age.
Looking at the sorry state of journalism today on both sides of the political spectrum, makes you miss someone like him who just stated objective facts and left opinion to the viewers.
Back when news was news, not news like we have now.
R.I.P. Walter Cronkite (1916-2009).
Before fake news. He would be appalled at the state of news today. God bless him. We need his ilk today.
"And thats the way it is"....Walters famous sign off .......when news was news
little had I known whenever i pretended to be someone from early 60's-90's america I was impersonatig this man. famous voice, amazing journalist. RIP
THE G.OA.T ( GREATEST OF ALL TIME)
AMEN
I remember this. It was one of my 1st memories. My parents used to watch CBS evening news every night. Bits and pieces until about 1982, I was born in late 77.
goodbye walter,we love you.
Back when journalism had integrity and class.
Mr. Cronkite has a similar speaking tone to Walt Disney. I love that he is very sincere, and he really cared about his audience a ton. I'm so thankful he was more professional than most news anchors/talkshow hosts nowadays.
We don’t have news casters like Walter Cronkite, he reported the news, and didn’t have any bias! One of the legends of news broadcasts!
IMO, ushering in 24-hour news programs resulted in filling a LOT of airtime with opinions and editorials--the more sensational, the more viewership. I love and miss Walter Cronkite, but to be fair, he had a set window in which to deliver the headlines. THAT is what would benefit us all.
That’s because leadership in news has changed.
In the early days of TV news it cost a station or a network money and you got that news in 15 minutes per day. A lot of people are confusing editorials & commentators with news anchors & reporters who have formal training in journalism and know bias isn’t a good thing. People like Walter were part of standardizing the integral journalistic standards of their era in radio news casting there was no formal training in early television. But no matter what anyone thinks news and news reporting are part of a constitutional right to get news good or bad reported! Communist countries do not have this freedom!
Cronkite was born here in my hometown (St. Joseph, MO). The local University has a specific wing dedicated to him and has all his Emmys displayed (11 of them, he won 12 and one of them has been lost and never found). I remember as a little boy in the '60s my dad pulling up in the driveway from work at a local factory he worked at for 20 years. My mom and him had 7 of us (I was #6) and I was the only child to watch CBS evening news with my dad, my sitting on the couch, him laying down from a hard day's work with his shoes off, feet laid on my thighs and his feet stinking so bad because he wore thin black nylon socks his entire life. He'd be so exhausted that he would always nod off during the news and I didn't want to budge knowing he worked so hard and would only get up from dozing off to work around the house and/or on the cars and/or the yard until very late at night, darn near every night (he had sleep apnea from a throat wound he sustained in WW II that prevented him from sleeping much and he was always awake and working on something since he didn't sleep much (besides smoking his non-filtered Chesterfield cigarettes to keep him going). What I remember most from the news was seeing footage for years of the Vietnam War, which seemed to be the top story almost every night in the '60s on the CBS evening news. As a boy of 5yrs old up until the age of 12, I found watching the footage from that war difficult to understand and take in mentally, almost like it wasn't real to me. Walter's reporting was one-of-a-kind, and he even resembled my old man (who was born and raised in Ukraine).
A sad epilogue to this was that the entire set was demolished to build Dan Rather's new set immediately after Walter left the room bound for a farewell party on a lower floor. Nobody thought he would go back up one last time to his desk, but he did. Apparently, he left very quickly after seeing his work site completely torn apart.
really? that was sad, didn't even wait the man to leave the bldg smh
Look at the like to dislike ratio.. 1.5k to 37! That's why Cronkite was the most trusted man in America
A distinguished gentleman void of his own personal commentary yet poetic and factual in his news deliverance
When I spoke with him at a symposium at Arkansas State University in the 90's, he admitted leaving when he did, at age 65 as CBS wanted, was a giant mistake. He wanted to stay, and he should have. Rather held the job longer, but since then, that job's been a revolving door.
Yeah they haven't found anyone really good since Rather...
No newsman today can touch the late and great Walker Cronkite miss your style and great voice RIP.
The greatest broadcaster of all time.
It’s weird, as a young man in my early 20’s when he retired in 1981, after dinner I always watched the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. I would not go out until I watched his broadcast. It was my ritual. Watching Uncle Walter then watching the Mets on WOR Channel 9 in N.Y.
Love the Mets, let’s go Mets baby
How 'bout them Mets?
I am a Korean living in S.Korea. When I was a freshman, I chose journalism as a liberal arts subject, and then the professor lectured on Walter Cronkite's news clips. This is the greatness of Walter Cronkite.
Happy wishes from Ohio!
When news was news. Not fake news, not real news, but simply news.
Old Newsman Walter Cronkite Will Not Be Forgotten. RIP
Legend. You could believe what he said. Unlike today.
Yeah there was a assumed sense that everyone was trying to help you with the information they were giving.
I remember his departure from the evening news. I was only 15, but could remember watching him for over 10 years. I remember watching Dan Rather, thinking it wasn't the same. Whether Cronkite deserved America's trust is an open question, but in a real way he did have it, more than any major news figure would ever have again in America to this day. The difference between now and then could hardly be more stark.
"And that's the way it is..." "Good night Chet, good night David, and good night from NBC news." How well I remember...
❤
I swear my dad lived for the 630 news. As a kid i always liked You Are there. And that's the way it was and you are there.
I would give anything to go back and live for a week in those times, things were so genuine then.
One of the best send offs of all times!
LEGEND
I loved this man !
I remember him well Great newscaster
Walter Cronkite will be sadly missed by us all
2022 and he is still an Immortal Legend
Walter Cronkite was a great man as an anchorman and he is the greatest news anchor of all time. And I love his sign off phrase “and that’s the way it is.” This is why I decided to use that for conversations.
💛I grew up watching him & was always amazed with his tone of voice & admired his composure & eloquence. 💛
so was I
This man was in his 60's in 1981!
And this broadcast happened 12 years (minus one day) before I was born!
Cronkite, Brokaw and Jennings
In that Order The real “big three”
I’d take Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley over any newscasters from the last three decades.
No, make that four decades. No one has come even close to those two, in my opinion.
Walter Cronkite always a professional forever humble he is missed
Well said Diane, he will be missed. How are you doing !
@@AndrewNorbert-ms9mq I'm doing pretty good this a m
Gave me chills
One of the greatest anchors ever.
I loved his reference to Douglas MacArthur... old anchormen don’t fade away 😂
Freshman in college at the time, watched this in a packed TV lounge in the student union. There was a standing ovation for him as he signed off.
So sad that people are this obsessed with a stanger on tv. Get a life.
Wow that must have been a cool scene. Which college?
@@michaelagnew7493 Wooster, in Ohio
When the news was giving straight without bias, Walter Cronkite was the news anchor I grew up with.
The epitome of greatness
The absolute best, too bad we no longer have news anchors that report news "the way it is" instead of TWISTED to fit their party's political agenda.
Which both sides' channels (FOX News and MSNBC) do (each side insisting that they never do, and the other one always does)!
@@bmasters1981 Good thing we have the nightly news on ABC, NBC, and CBS still.
Unless you're watching editorials or opinion shows (the majority of 24 hour news networks), then I really don't know where you're coming up with this.
Don't fool yourself, Cronkite was very obviously liberal.
@@albertjackinson Lololololololololol
Dan Rather may have been on longer! But Cronkite was a man who was loved by all! R.I.P. Walter!
Rather was and is a corrupt newsman.
Dan Rather was the man responsible for the beginning of fake news.
Tom Bradley Rather was exposed and left in disgrace over lies about a sitting president. Leftists do not play fair. They never have.
Danny Rather should have been canned for performance about five years into his tenure. It's a crime they kept him on so long.
Walter Cronkite hated George W. Bush but he denounced Dan Rather for his false news report about him.
He was the man with Barbara Walters... I am now 55 and I remember them around 10 to 14 years of age... now 2023 they're missed. Both powerful news anchors that got and give us the world news with precision.
damn he was the best news person, ever as of today in my opinion
Walter was the greatest. Since Cronkite the best was Gordon Graham.
We still need Walter Cronkite!
I saw this final broadcast live, and like then, I get a lump in my throat.
He was the last of the greatest journalist
I wasn’t born at the time but he will always be remembered for his amazing strength of emotion the day jfk died he held back his tears so bad what a legend
This is the kind of news you need . Not 24 hour water torture news , with phony news and bias . You ONLY needed a hour ! I used to watch this everyday !
REAL NEWS and that's the way it was.
Watched this gentleman ad a kid and always thought he sounded comforting. The news is not comforting now. I guess because I understand things better now. “Those were the days!”
I loved watching Walter Cronkite every evening. He is missed. No one today could fill his shoes. And that's the way it is.
i miss walt ,wish i could have met him.
Recently, this in a way has been more relevant than ever. All of the CZcamsrs we’ve grown up with seem to be retiring, and leaving their viewers with great memories. Walter Cronkite had that same impact with people who watched him on CBS News. For decades, many grew up watching Walter Cronkite and were sad to see him retire as the main anchorman. I’m 21, and I have a hard time believing that 2014 was a decade ago. Time is indeed an enemy.
I'll always remember his reaction to Kennedy's assignation. At that moment, he wasn't a TV presenter, he was just an American telling the nation the news that the president was dead. He really felt the same shock and sadness the rest of the nation did. It was a very poignant moment.
Boy, do I mis this man. Peace be with you Walter.
He was the "man" no one could replace him It would be nice to have him back miss that man 😥
The iconic and legendary Mr Cronkite
He was definitely one of the best. I always looked forward to when he signed off each night. May you R.I
P. Uncle Walter. 3/19/2024
what a guy ♥
The man, the legend
"And that's the way it is" Walter Cronkite
Our Beloved Grandmother never missed the evening news with Walter Cronkite from 1960s-80s
Legendary: Cronkite, Huntley, Brinkley, Jennings, and Reynolds.
Legend that I concede: Tom Brokaw - I could not stand his pompous voice but that's me. Everyone loves him and he is a legend.
Honorable mention: Koppel - yeah he did not anchor the evening news. But he created a new category of late news where his brilliant questions helped bring leaders together and solved world problems. Koppel was pure genius.
Next tier: Chancellor wonderful human being but dull on air.
Infamous legend, the Nixon of anchors, Dan Rather. He was always a reporter but hardly an anchor.
“If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.”
President Lyndon Johnson said that about Walter Cronkite.
He did the most to end the Vietnam war than anyone else...
Yep he lied and good men died.
i grew up watching him he delivered all my news no Facebook back then! he was trustworthy and dependable
He didn't give his opinion he simply reported the news...a real legend.
"Most trusted man in America"
The night the news stopped being the way it is. I cried like a baby.