Walter Cronkite, who is best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for about 19 years (from 1962–1981), was reported to be gravely ill and near death. The 92-year-old retire American broadcaster could be best remembered with his on-air reporting of the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. During the peak of his career, he was considered as “the most trusted man in America”.

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Walter Cronkite Personal Life via wikipedia
Cronkite was married for nearly sixty-five years to Betsy Maxwell Cronkite, whom he married on March 30, 1940. They remained together until her death on March 16, 2005. They have three children: Nancy Cronkite, Kathy Cronkite, and Walter (Chip) Cronkite III (who is married to actress Deborah Rush). Cronkite also has four grandchildren, two of whom, Peter Cronkite and Walter Cronkite IV, are alumni of St. Bernard’s School. Peter Cronkite is currently attending Horace Mann School. Walter attends Hamilton College, having graduated from The Horace Mann School.

In late 2005 Cronkite began dating opera singer Joanna Simon, Carly Simon’s older sister. Of their relationship Cronkite stated in an interview for the New York Post in January 2006: “We are keeping company, as the old phrase used to be.”

Longevity runs in Cronkite’s family: his mother died in 1993 at the age of 101. Cronkite was 77 at the time of his mother’s death.

In June 2009, reports began to circulate that Cronkite is in seriously ill health, despite denials by Cronkite’s office.