Walter Cronkite ... in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Cronkite served as the CBS Evening News anchorman for 19 years before his final sign off on March 6, 1981. He died on July 17, 2009, in New York ...

a mark it would hold for the rest of Cronkite's 19-year tenure. "Uncle Walter" increasingly became the most-admired figure in the news media. His sign-off, "And that's the way it is," became a ...