A CBS executive says retired CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," has died at his home in New York.
CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 pm after a long illness with his family by his side.
He was the face of CBS News from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the Kennedy assassination to Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.
Cronkite was born November 4, 1916 in St. Joseph, Missouri. After reading an article about a foreign correspondent, Cronkite left the University of Texas and began his journalism career, which including covering the European front of World War II for the United Press International.
Cronkite was 92 years old.
