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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
Walter Cronkite
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Walter Cronkite
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: November 4
Died: 2009
Died: July 17
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Saint Joseph
Missouri
Walter Leland Cronkite
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Walter Leland Cronkite
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