NEW YORK: Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the golden age of the U.S. networks who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday (Saturday morning Malaysian time). He was 92.
Cronkite's longtime chief of staff, Marlene Adler, said Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. at his Manhattan home surrounded by family. She said the cause of death was cerebral vascular disease.
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