I have a 3/4" off-air recording of Walter's last nightly newscast.<div>Its quite a time capsule!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Ted Langdell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Walter Cronkite left his CBS anchor chair in 1981 after 19 years. Today, after 92 years on the planet, he left us behind for a look a whatever adventure faces mankind at the end of our earthly presence.<div>
<br></div><div>Cronkite presided over what became the top ranked newscast of the 1960's and 70's, each broadcast recorded on Quad videotape for re-feed across the country and for time-zone delay on the West Coast.</div>
<div><br></div><div>He took over the CBS network's daily news broadcast from Douglas Edwards, the first anchorman recorded on videotape.</div><div><br></div><div>His legacy lives on through reels of 2" Quad archived at CBS and other repositories, documenting and commenting on some of America's most historic moments in the mid-20th Century: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the results of Kennedy's pledge to put a man on the moon before the end of that century's sixth decade.<br>
<div><br></div><div>During his 19 years at the helm of the CBS Evening News, Cronkite certainly had the chance to become the man most recorded on Quad.</div><div><br></div><div>One can speculate about what Cronkite's reaction was to entering his new form of existence. I think he might have echoed his summary of the first moonwalk just 40 years ago... "Whew!" And then, with a wry tone of voice thought, "And <i>that's</i> the way it is."</div>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><br>Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:12px">Secretary</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Skype: <span style="white-space:pre"> </span>TedLangdell</span></font></div>
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