Former CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite Dead

Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman known as 'the most trusted man in America' for his rectitude and gravitas, died Friday night in his New York home.

Cronkite was an American broadcast journalist for CBS Evening News for 19 years.

Walter Cronkite was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of Helen Lena and Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite, a dentist. He had remote Dutch ancestry on his father's side, the family surname originally being Krankheyt.