00:00 If you were an American of a certain age,
00:03 television anchorman Walter Cronkite was your hero.
00:08 Walter Cronkite was the news, the tip-off, the chase,
00:12 the sources, the facts, the who, what, when, where,
00:16 and why of a breaking story.
00:18 This is what Walter lived for day in and day out.
00:23 And no story was bigger than the one that broke at 1 PM,
00:28 Friday, November 22, 1963.
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