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Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (4 November 1916 - 17 July 2009) was a Human broadcast journalist on Earth during the 20th century, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981.
Biography
On 19 May 1974, Cronkite delivered the news of an underground nuclear explosion in India. The explosion went down in history as a nuclear test, but was actually the destruction of the Chrysalis Project. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)
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External link
- Walter Cronkite article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.