Come back Walter! Pour your spirit into the newsguys of today. More than ever, we need you now!
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SERENDIPITY – SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH
Come back Walter! Pour your spirit into the newsguys of today. More than ever, we need you now!
Categories: Anecdote
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SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
I know you remember his reporting of the Kennedy assassination that day. We always watched him at home.
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I remember him covering the first men walking on the moon. It was so obvious he wished he was up there with them. I know just how he felt. I wanted to be up there too. i still do.
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I wouldn’t mind being up there. But since I hate to fly, maybe they can drug me or put me into hyper sleep for however long it takes to get there!
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Yeah, well, this was a dream of youth. Now, I can barely limp up the stairs to my house. I don’t think I’m off to other worlds, at least not physically 🙂
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Sometimes the best world is what we make of where we are. Geez, I’m getting sickeningly philosophical today!
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I think you are philosophically speaking, probably right. But I still dream of other worlds and watching earth rise over Mars’ horizon.
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Uncle Walter loved talking about space exploration the way I do about baseball. We used to swap stories about baseball heroes. I loved his accounts of Babe Ruth.
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Yes he was a great.
Leslie
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Every time I see him in a clip on TV, I realize how far we’ve fallen from when the news was something you could believe in.
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Some how you just trusted everything he said.
Leslie
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Leslie, Uncle Walter was a nice fella off camera. He used some pretty salty language in talking about the “suits” we all battled for truth, justice and the American way. It was somehow off-setting to hear we had the same issues. Truth has always been an endangered species. We played on a more leveled ball field.
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You know one gets a sense about these guys. I think most people felt is was the real thing. They trusted him and believed what he said.
There’s a whole other chapter, Garry. You saw a side of Cronkite that we can only imagine.
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Again, you are right. Leslie, you’re becoming my Max Perkins. I think I could more easily write a piece about personal/social memories of the news legends. More fresh in my mind. I haven’t forgotten the Alcott-Hepburn suggestion. Thanks, again, Leslie.
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I would so like to read about your experiences, Garry.
Leslie
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Yes. Yes. And Huntley and Brinkley. Those two guys figured out the Cuban Missile Crisis before JFK had acted. He asked them to stay quiet about it and they did.
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I just yearn for someone I can really trust. There was a higher standard for news back then. They actually had to check and make sure it was true before they broadcast it! Imagine that!
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I am forever grateful that I grew up with some of the legendary newsmen. Murrow, Cronkite, Sevareid, etc.
I’m fortunate to have learned from and WORKED with some of them. My working years encompassed radio news, the growth of TV News and the eventual Network/Entertainment division butchering of news as journalism.
We had a great ride.
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