American Masters Walter Cronkite: Witness to History (Season 20, Episode 5)
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TV Episode | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Masters

Walter Cronkite: Witness to History (Season 20, Episode 5)

TV-14

TV Episode | Documentary, Biography, History

He was the man who told us that President Kennedy had been shot, the man who told us that we had put a man on the moon, and the man who told us that we couldn't win the war in Vietnam. For 20 years he anchored the evening news on CBS.

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Spiro Agnew Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Spiro Agnew's Asian Trip (1970)
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Ben Bradlee Self Self See fewer	Born Yesterday (1993)
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William F. Buckley Self Self See fewer	Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Jimmy Carter Self Self See fewer	The American President (2000)
Katie Couric Self - Narrator Self - Narrator See fewer	Zoolander 2 (2016)
Chip Cronkite Self Self See fewer	The Legends Behind the Comic Books (2007)
Kathy Cronkite Self Self See fewer	Network (1976)
Walter Cronkite Self Self See fewer	Liberty's Kids (2002)
David Frost Self Self See fewer	Retreat (I) (2011)
David Halberstam Self Self See fewer	Rowing Through (1996)
Don Hewitt Self Self See fewer	60 Minutes (1968)
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Lyndon B. Johnson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Spartamerika
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John Laurence Self Self See fewer	The World of Charlie Company (1970)
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John McCain Self Self See fewer	Parks and Recreation (2009)
John Mosedale Self Self See fewer	Whatever Happened to '72? (1972)
Bill Moyers Self Self See fewer	Bill Moyers' Journal (1972)
Edward R. Murrow Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Richard Nixon Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Frost/Nixon (2008)
Dan Rather Self Self See fewer	CBS Evening News (1963)
Andrew Rooney Self Self See fewer	Of Black America (1968)
Anwar Sadat Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Midweek (1972)
Morley Safer Self Self See fewer	Morning Glory (2010)
Daniel Schorr Self Self See fewer	The Game (1997)
Sanford Socolow Self Self See fewer	The Cronkite Report: The Faltering Dream (1993)
Helen Thomas Self Self See fewer	Dave (1993)
Andie Tucher Self Self See fewer	In Search of the Constitution (1987)
Mike Wallace Self Self See fewer	60 Minutes (1968)
Barbara Walters Self Self See fewer	The Barbara Walters Summer Special (1976)
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Shirley Wershba Self Self See fewer	Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)