PlayFormer CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite has died at age 92.
Mr Cronkite, who covered many high-profile news events such as the John F Kennedy assassination to the Apollo moon landing and Vietnam War, died in New York after an illness, CBS said.
His family issued a statement weeks ago that he had been suffering for some years with cerebrovascular disease and was not expected to recuperate.
His death coincided with the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which took the first astronauts to the moon.
Mr Cronkite was a passionate chronicler of the space program and anniversary celebrations of Apollo 11 have featured frequent rebroadcasts of his coverage of the historic moon landing.
Don Hewitt, a longtime CBS News executive and creator of the long-running 60 Minutes news program, said: "He was the consummate television newsman. He had all the credentials to be a writer, an editor, a broadcaster. There was only one Walter Cronkite and there may never be another one."
President Barack Obama said Mr Cronkite "was someone we could trust to guide us through the most important issues of the day; a voice of certainty in an uncertain world. He was family. He invited us to believe in him, and he never let us down."
Former President George W Bush called Mr Cronkite "an icon of American journalism."
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