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[Tom Murray]

Walter Cronkite to receive medal from Radio Club of America

The Radio Club of America has announced that Walter Cronkite will be one of 
two people to receive the Armstrong Medal at its 2007 banquet on 16 
November.

Cronkite is best known as the anchor of the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 
1981.

Among his other interests, Cronkite is a radio amateur.
He said that although amateur radio has been around for 100 years, it is not 
out of date. “Many of you know I’m a sailor. I really enjoy being on the 
sea, with the wind at my back, under way, under sail. What most of you don’t 
know is that I’m a radio ham, too. My call is KB2GSD. And you can bet that 
when I’m on the ocean, even if the GPS, the radar and the ship-toshore fail, 
I’ve still got my ham radio station. It really is the best back-up 
communications system in the world,” he said.

Cronkite was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1916. He first worked in radio 
as an announcer for WKY in Oklahoma City. He later worked as a sports 
announcer for KCMO in Kansas City, Missouri. While in Kansas City in 1937, 
he went to work for United Press International (UPI). The news agency sent 
him to cover World War II, and he distinguished himself as a reporter in 
North Africa and Europe.

In 1950, Edward R. Murrow recruited him to work at CBS News. He anchored the 
network’s coverage of national political party conventions beginning in 
1952, and from 1953 to 1957, he hosted the CBS program, “You Are There.” On 
April 16, 1962, he succeeded Douglas Edwards as the anchor of the “CBS 
Evening News” and continued in that role until March 6, 1981.

After leaving the evening news broadcast, Cronkite was seen and heard 
occasionally as a special correspondent for CBS, CNN and NPR. From 1987 to 
1992, Cronkite filled his last role for CBS News: “Walter Cronkite’s 20th 
Century,” a 90-second radio segment for CBS Radio. A production company he 
cofounded in 1993, the Cronkite Ward Company, produced documentaries for the 
Discovery Channel, PBS and other networks. In 2004, he wrote a weekly 
syndicated newspaper column that appeared in 186 newspapers. For many years, 
Cronkite hosted the annual Vienna New Year’s Concert on PBS and the Kennedy 
Center Honors.

Cronkite is the recipient of a Peabody Award, the William White Award for 
Journalistic Merit, an Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts and 
Sciences, the George Polk Journalism Award, and a Gold Medal from the 
International Radio and Television Society. His autobiography, “A Reporter’s 
Life,” was published in 1996.

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