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Topic: Walter Cronkite

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Tony Dokoupil’s viral debut at CBS

Gen. Lucian K. Truscott Jr. (Wikimedia)

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Lucian K. Truscott IV

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2013 file photo, Charlie Rose, host of "Charlie Rose: The Week," takes part in a panel discussion during the PBS Summer 2013 TCA press tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Rose, who is also the anchor of CBS This Morning," will receive the 2015 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University's Cronkite School, the school announced Monday, June 1, 2015. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) (Chris Pizzello/invision/ap)

Charlie Rose stripped of awards

Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)

This guy changed the world

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Brian Williams, Max Headroom (AP/Evan Agostini/Salon)

Downfall of a fake newsman

Rush Limbaugh (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Limbaugh complains about Rice

St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., during President John F. Kennedy's funeral, Nov. 25, 1963. (AP)

My case for JFK "griefporn"

Walter Cronkite (AP)

Boomer JFK media

Daniel D'Addario

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Alex Seitz-Wald

CBS-TV newsman Walter Cronkite is interviewed in his CBS office at the broadcast center 524 West 57th Street on Feb. 3, 1981 in New York.

Compiled by Dana Cook

Amy Reiter, Karen Croft

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