Coca-Cola Corporation, 13, 584
Cochran, Ron, 273, 275
Cocoa Beach, Florida, 408, 414, 429
Cohen, Adam, 405
Colbert Report, The (Comedy Central), 666
Colbert, Stephen, 666
cold war, 151, 193, 196, 197, 235, 349, 591–92
Colgate Comedy Hour, The (NBC TV), 498
Collier’s Weekly, 326
Collingwood, Charles
as candidate for CBS’s news anchor, 247
and Kennedy assassination, 278
as one of the Murrow Boys, 105, 124, 130, 141, 178, 209
and 1952 elections, 167, 168, 169
retirement from CBS News, 531
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy, A, 250
Vietnam: The Deadly Decision, 300
”Vietnam: The Hawks and the Doves,” 341
in Vietnam, 352, 408
on What’s My Line?, 186
Collins, Michael, 412, 419–22, 425, 603
Collins, Reid, 514
color television, 323, 352, 353
Colson, Charles, 445, 446, 447, 459, 465, 466, 477, 478, 479, 480
Columbia (Apollo 11 spaceship), 412
Columbia Journalism Review, 283
Columbia Missourian, 55
Columbia University, 355
Graduate School of Journalism, 283, 533
Columbia University Press, 507
comedy shows
CBS’s, 291, 498–99
Cronkite on Mary Tyler Moore Show, 498–99, 658
Cronkite on Murphy Brown, 613
NBC’s free-form, 217
Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CREEP), 471, 476
Commoner, Barry, 429, 433, 437
communications satellite, Telstar, 253–54
communism, 148, 196, 449–50, 553, 608
concentration camps, 126, 127, 135, 654
Concord High School, New Hampshire, 590
Confederacy of Dunces, A (Toole), 363
Congress Hotel, Chicago, IL, 163
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 295, 332, 352
Conlisk, James B., Jr., 406
Connally, John B., 268, 271, 379, 538
Connor, Bull, 294, 328, 406
Conquest (CBS News), 257
Conrad Hilton, Chicago, IL, 163
Conrad, Pete, 426
conservative movement, 622–23
Considine, Bob and Millie, 453
Consolidated Edison, 437
Continental Hotel, Leavenworth, Kansas, 13
Conversations with Cronkite (Carleton), 648
Conway, Mike, 150
Cooke, Alistair, 234
Cooley, Denton, 33
Cooper, L. Gordon, 236, 338, 422
Cornell University, 141
“Correspondents Report, The” (CBS News), 442
Cory, Sarah Gross, 30
Cosell, Howard, 487
Cosmoplitan magazine, 306
counterculture, 401
Courageous (yacht), 585
Couric, Katie, 637, 638, 647, 652, 660
Cousteau, Jacques, 429, 555
Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA, 310, 311, 312, 313–14, 315
Crane, Philip, 538
Cravat Hotel, Luxembourg City, 122–23, 124
Crisis of Global Capitalism, The (Soros), 630
Cronkite, Anna (paternal grandmother), 14, 19, 21, 38
“Cronkite Diplomacy,” 529
Cronkite, F. P. (paternal grandfather), 13–14, 19, 21, 38
Cronkite, Helen Fritsche (mother), 14–15, 17, 18, 21, 25, 27–29, 38, 43, 46, 49, 80, 114, 178, 235, 255–56, 581, 591, 621, 622
Cronkite, Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” Maxwell (wife), 222, 231, 264, 278, 486, 500, 509, 525, 578, 592, 606
children, 145–46, 153, 181, 231, 401–2
courtship with Cronkite, 50–51, 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 64
death of, 644, 659
on early years of marriage, 72–73
family and personal life, 452, 578–79
health issues, 624
journalism career, 54, 55, 56, 70–71, 76, 136
marriage to Walter, 69–70
media profiles of, 306
pilot’s license, 72
and sailing, 581
travels with Walter, 77, 134, 136–37, 138, 140, 147, 153, 310, 311, 398, 557, 617–18, 633–34
and Walter during World War II, 71–85, 86–87, 88, 95, 103, 110, 113, 114–15, 131
and Walter’s retirement, 535, 559
on Walter’s star quality, 360
Cronkite, Mary Kathleen “Kathy” (daughter), 12, 41, 136, 137, 153, 181, 231, 327, 394, 401, 414, 453, 501, 521, 559–60, 580, 581, 583, 593, 624, 652, 656, 659, 663
Cronkite, Nancy (daughter), 145, 181, 231, 309, 315, 319, 327, 340, 401, 414, 453, 580–81, 624, 656, 659, 663
Cronkite, Walter, IV (grandson), 626
Cronkite, Walter Leland, Jr.
and automobile racing, 16, 180–81, 243
animal lover, 78
annual Christmas Party, 500, 551
archival papers of, 648
awards and honors to, 436, 438, 454, 455, 458, 503, 532, 543, 548, 559, 583–84, 630, 648
and Benjamin’s death, 600
birth of, 15
as bookie joint announcer, 231
books on sailing, 579–80
as a Boy Scout, 25
with Braniff Airlines, 59–60, 61, 89
business partnership, 579–80
and cable television, 558–59
on CBS board of directors, 584, 586
cerebrovascular disease diagnosis, 652–53
and charitable causes, 618–19
childhood and family history, 11–21
children, 145–46, 153, 181, 231, 401–2, 414–15, 452–53, 579, 580–81
Christian upbringing, 28
color blindness, 72, 98
courtship with Betsy Maxwell, 50–51, 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 64
Credibility Gap Award to, class of ’33, 33
Cronkite-Simon relationship, 646–47, 649, 653–54
death of, 656–67
and death of Bob Post, 101–2
drinking problem, 39, 45, 578, 597–98
Dutch and German heritage, 12–13, 71, 121, 128–29
and elder-statesman role, 584–611
entrepreneurial ventures, 579–80, 600–603, 618
family and personal life, 231, 452–54, 578–82
and father’s alcoholism, 27–28, 180, 492
first car, 27
fund-raising efforts, 582–83
grandchildren, 580
and the Gulf War, 605–6
and ham radio operator’s license, 649
health issues, 480, 512–13, 619–20, 622, 623–24, 632, 642, 652
High Cronkite and Low Cronkite personas, 195, 517
and high school class ring, 33, 34
and high school reunions, 33–34
high school sweetheart, 32, 36, 37, 38, 43–44, 45, 46, 50
high school years, 29–33, 35
honorary degrees to, 540, 633, 634
in Houston public school system, 26–27
journalism classes, 29, 30, 32
journalism school named after, 583–84
as King Features columnist, 637–39
Latrio band, 92
liberalism defense, 600–602, 622–23, 637
“living legend” designation, 618
marriage, 69–70
on Martha’s Vineyard,
470, 491, 578–79, 593, 625, 626, 629–30, 649
memoir, 15, 20, 40, 109, 139, 313, 355, 374, 461, 513, 597, 622, 656
military service ineligibility, 72, 77, 121–22
as “Most Trusted Man in America,” 481, 497, 582–83, 657
and mother’s death, 621, 622
and music, 592–93, 594, 623–24, 656
nicknames, 12, 29, 96, 277, 310, 313
and nightlife, parties, and strip clubs, 50, 469–70, 561, 592
and 9/11, 633–36
in Northridge earthquake, 612–13
in Nuremberg, Germany, 131–36, 654
paperboy jobs, 19–20, 26–27
and parents’ divorce, 28
pop culture knowledge, 190
and prejudice, 24–25, 297–98
Presidential Medal of Freedom to, 543
and Rather feud, 595–97, 604, 644, 645, 646
and Rather’s forced dismissal from CBS, 641–42
residences, 70, 147, 181, 500–501, 624
and retirement decision, 559, 566
and sailing, 243–45, 306, 315, 317, 427, 439, 471, 480, 501, 524, 526–27, 535, 539, 579–80, 581–82, 594, 599, 602, 608, 620, 625–26, 649
sailing memoir, 636–37
and Sevareid’s death, 616
speaking engagements, 197, 578, 600–603, 618, 622
and Telstar communications satellite, 253–54
twilight years, 647–55
at University of Texas, 36–41, 44–45
on USIA blacklist, 571–72, 620
and Vietnam War, 301–3
in Washington, D.C., 147–49, 151–66
on What’s My Line?, 186–87
and wife’s death, 644
and World War II, 71–85
youthful hobbies of, 23, 24
youth in Houston, Texas, 22–34, 297–98
See also aviation; CBS entries; early journalism career; radio career; television; television news
Cronkite, Walter Leland, Sr. (father), 12, 14–17, 20–21, 24–25, 27–28, 36, 45, 46
Cronkite, Walter Leland, III, “Chip” (son), 181, 231, 401, 410, 414–15, 432, 452, 453, 579, 580, 624, 634, 652, 653, 656, 659, 663
Cronkite Remembers (documentary), 397, 496, 622, 623, 663
Cronkite Report, The (Discovery Channel), 619, 620, 650
Cronkiters, 482–87
Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASU), 583–84, 648
Cronkite, Ward and Company, 619
Cronkitiana, 486, 648
Cronkititis, 418
Crosby, John, 158, 165, 175, 179
C-SPAN, 381, 389, 506, 558
Cuban Missile Crisis, 256
Culbert, David, 383–84
Cunningham, Chris, 82, 83
Cuomo, Mario, 574
Curtiss-Wright biplane, 11–12
Cushman, Robert, 372
Cuyahoga River, Ohio, fire of 1969, 429
Dachau death camps, 135
Daily News (Saigon newspaper), 343
Daily Show, The (NBC TV), 499, 666
Daily Texan, The (college newspaper), 36, 37, 38, 44, 148, 648
Daley, Eleanor, 404
Daley, Richard J., 400, 403–4
Cronkite’s interview with, 404–5, 406
Dalí, Salvador, 470, 579
Dallas, Texas, Kennedy assassination in, 266–84
Daly, John, 158, 167, 186
Daniel, Margaret Truman, 574
Dan Rather Reports (HDNet), 644
Darrow, Clarence, 12
Davis, Elmer, 78, 167
Davis, John Paul, 44
Davis, Peter, 450
Davis, Rennie, 406
Dayan, Moshe, 529
Day, John, 248
daytime programs, CBS’s, 252, 288, 289, 354
D-day (invasion of Normandy), 80, 103, 110–14, 119, 288, 298–99, 572–73, 620
D-day (Plus 50) (CNN), 620
“D-Day Plus Twenty Years: Eisenhower Returns to Normandy” (CBS News), 114, 288, 298–99
Dean, Morton, 604
de Gaulle, Charles, 147, 280
Dellinger, David, 406
Democratic National Committee, Watergate scandal, 164, 445, 470–71
Democratic National Convention (DNC)
Cronkite’s demotion from 1964 DNC coverage, 317–19
first televised, 1948, 141
1928 (Houston, TX), 25
1952 (Chicago), 159–66
1956 (Chicago), 183–85, 186, 187
1960 (Los Angeles), 203–6, 208–11
1964 (Atlantic City), 307, 315–16, 317–22
1968 (Chicago), 399, 400–401
1972 (Miami Beach), 471–72
1976 (New York City), 517, 518–19
1980 (New York City), 542–43
1984 (San Francisco), 573–76
Denmark, 125
dentistry, early, 13–14, 16, 17, 20–21, 27
Denver, John, 590
Denver Post, The, 497, 508
Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S., 147, 148
Department of Defense, U.S., 196, 346, 371
and Pentagon Papers, 458–60, 461–62, 463
propaganda activities of, 449–50
Department of Justice, U.S., 177, 406, 454
Der Spiegel, 305
Detroit News Magazine, 153
Devlin, Art, 202
Dewey, Thomas, 147, 220, 311
“Dial-a-President” event, 526
Diaries (Warhol), 593
Diary for Timothy, A (TV documentary), 193
Didrikson, Babe, 156
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 261, 346
Dieppe, Battle of, 80
Dimbleby, Richard, 254
Discovery Channel, 329, 548, 558
Cronkite and the, 609–10
Cronkite Remembers on, 622, 623
Cronkite Report, The, on, 619, 620
Cronkite’s Universe on, 609
Disher, Leo, 82
Disney Channel, 558
Disney, Walt, 225
documentaries, news, 12, 34, 134
Eyewitness (CBS), 179, 226, 228, 242, 243–45, 250, 253, 261
“Harvest of Shame,” 208, 217, 219, 336
narrated/hosted by Cronkite, 12, 34, 134, 609–10, 619, 622, 630, 654–55
NBC White Paper, 217
Person to Person (CBS), 189
See It Now (CBS), 157, 177, 178, 219, 291, 293, 335
Sputnik One: The Soviet Space Satellite (CBS), 194
Twentieth Century, The (CBS), 179, 190, 191–94, 195, 196, 199, 200–201, 319, 320, 344, 350
You Are There (CBS), 173–75, 176, 178, 179, 189, 191, 192, 196, 199, 333, 385, 458, 482
See also CBS Reports; 60 Minutes
Dole, Bob, 463, 621
Dombrow, Walter, 244, 343, 344, 345
Dos Passos, John, 131
Douglas Edwards with the News (CBS News), 149, 150, 176, 245
Douglas, Helen, 214
Dow Chemical, 431, 437
Dowd, Maureen, 573, 574
Downs, William “Bill,” 105, 121, 124–25, 154, 157
Dozier, William, 174
Dream Is Alive, The (NASA IMAX film), 589
Drinkwater, Terry, 353, 509
Drug Policy Alliance, 650, 651
drugs
cocaine use by Carter confidant, 534
Cronkite and decriminalization of marijuana, 650–51
heroin use in Vietnam, 364–65
patent medicines, 13
Dubos, René, 430, 438
> DuBrow, Rick, 283
Dukakis, Michael, 597, 598, 599, 600
Duke University, 505, 506, 536
Dulles, Allen, 519
Dylan, Bob, 652
Eagle (Apollo 11 lunar module), 412, 419–23
Eagle’s Talon, The (film), 449, 450
Eagleton, Thomas, 472
Eaker, Ira C., 89–90, 91, 94, 129
Eames, Bill, 308
early journalism career, Cronkite’s
abandons print journalism, 49
chief UP correspondent, 134–40, 145–46
college newspaper, 38, 44
D-day landings, 110–14
early journalistic instincts, 19–20
early newspaper jobs, 19–20, 26–27, 31, 38–39
first newspaper story, 31
freelance writer for Texas newspapers, 38–39, 42–43, 45
on German bombing raids, 95, 97–98, 109, 112
learning journalism trade, 39–52
Murrow’s (CBS) job offer to Cronkite, 105–8
1933 newswriting contest, 32
1937 New London, TX, school explosion, 56–58, 613
1939 Brookfield, MO, Lochinvar kidnapping case, 61–63
Nuremberg trials, 131–36, 654
in Operation Market Garden, 117–20, 125
salaries, 39, 43, 105, 106, 108, 140
school newspapers, 26, 29–30, 31–32
for UP in Moscow, 136–40
UP’s “Dean of the Air-War Writers,” 108–9, 129
as UP war correspondent, 76–132
V-E Day in Holland, 125–26
wire-service reporter for UP, 53–58, 61–65, 69–76
with Writing Sixty-Ninth, 95–103
“Earth Day: A Question of Survival” (CBS News), 432–33
Earth Day, 430, 432–34, 436–37, 438, 630
“Earthrise” (photo), 427, 428, 432, 436, 438–39
Eastland, James, 294
Ebb Tide for Pollution: A Program for Cleansing the Coast report (NRDC), 603
ecology, and the environment, 429–30
Economic Club of Detroit, 451
Edmondson, Ed, 403
Ed Sullivan Show (CBS TV), 290
Edward R. Murrow Award, 559
Edwards, Douglas R., 141, 149–51
and CBS’s Evening News, 205, 223, 252
Cronkite as replacement for, 158, 203, 242, 243
Cronkite as substitute for, 179
departure from CBS Evening News, 245, 251, 641
Douglas Edwards with the News (CBS), 149, 150, 175–76, 245
as model for TV newsmen, 156
and 1952 elections, 166, 167, 169
remains with CBS, 250
Sputnik One: The Soviet Space Satellite (CBS), 194
on What’s My Line? (CBS), 186–87
Edwards, John, 219, 638
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