Background
CRONKITE, Walter Leland. Jr. was born on November 4, 1916 in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States. Son of the late W. L. Cronkite and of Helene Fritsche.
CRONKITE, Walter Leland. Jr. was born on November 4, 1916 in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States. Son of the late W. L. Cronkite and of Helene Fritsche.
University of Texas.
Writer and Editor, Scripps-Howard & United Press, Houston, Kansas City, Dallas, Austin, El Paso and New York. United Press War Correspondent 1942-1945, later Foreign Correspondent, Chief Correspondent Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Bureau Manager, Moscow' 1946-1948. Lecturer 1948-1949; CBS, news correspondent 1950-1981.
Anchorman and Manager.
Board of directors CBS Inc.
Married Mary Elizabeth Maxwell in 1940.