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Newscaster Walter Cronkite—once known as "the most trusted man in America"—launched his career in Texas. Born in Missouri, Cronkite moved to Houston at age ten and discovered journalism in high school. He was a student reporter at The University of Texas at Austin before pursuing journalism full-time. After earning national recognition during World War II, Cronkite moved to television and became the anchor for CBS Evening News in 1962. For two decades, there was scarcely a story he didn’t cover. Whenever earthshaking events occurred, most television viewers learned about them from Cronkite, and his reporting became closely associated with the average American’s point of view. Cronkite retired in 1981 but remained a vocal advocate of journalism’s role in preserving democracy. He wrote in his autobiography, "The First Amendment, with its guarantees of free speech and a free press, has been at the heart of the American success story." More»