Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 - July 17, 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.
On May 19, 1974, Cronkite delivered the news of an underground nuclear explosion in India. This explosion was the destruction of the Chrysalis Project. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)
External link
- Walter Cronkite article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.