To end the debate, the photo is from the Kennedy assassination coverage. One of two notable times that Cronkite lost his composure for just a moment. The other, as packratmac suggested, was when Armstrong stepped onto the Moon.
I think it says a lot about Cronkite that he was not the first network anchor (John Cameron Swayze was), nor the first anchor for CBS (Douglas Edwards), nor the longest (Rather, Brokaw, and Jennings all held their chairs longer), but he is still the image that we all think of when we think of TV news.
To end the debate, the photo is from the Kennedy assassination coverage. One of two notable times that Cronkite lost his composure for just a moment. The other, as packratmac suggested, was when Armstrong stepped onto the Moon.
I think it says a lot about Cronkite that he was not the first network anchor (John Cameron Swayze was), nor the first anchor for CBS (Douglas Edwards), nor the longest (Rather, Brokaw, and Jennings all held their chairs longer), but he is still the image that we all think of when we think of TV news.