Walter Cronkite dies

Television journalism icon Walter Cronkite died this weekend. His wife of 65 years, Betsy, was a women’s page editor in Kansas City when they first married. She was a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism. (That’s a photo of Betsy above.)

The newspaper that she worked for, the Journal-Post, went out of business one day while she was out on assignment. The story is in Walter Cronkite’s autobiography, A Reporter’s Life, pages 77-78.

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