BBC News: Obituary: Walter Cronkite (18.7.2009), haettu 18.7.2009 "When he broadcast his belief that America could not win that war, President Johnson was heard to say: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle-America." He decided then not to seek re-election."
Museum of Broadcast Communications: In Memoriam - Walter Cronkite (Albert Auster), haettu 19.7.2009 (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)"It was also ironic that Cronkite's first thirty minute newscast included an exclusive interview with President John F.Kennedy. Barely two months later Cronkite was first on the air reporting Kennedy's assassination, and in one of the rare instances when his journalist objectivity deserted him, he shed tears."
Newsweek.com - Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009 (Ben Bradlee, 17.7.2009), haettu 18.7.2009"We were the second-biggest newspaper in the country trying to scramble for a good story—whereas Cronkite was the reigning dean of television journalists. When he did the Watergate story, everyone said, "My God, Cronkite's with them. [...] A little more than a week after the Cronkite broadcast, Nixon decisively won his reelection campaign. But those of us following the story felt it. Washington people, people who followed national stories—a lot of them who had not decided that we were right changed their minds because of Walter. They said, "Cronkite wouldn't hitch his wagon to any fly-by-night outfit." It was terribly important."
Museum of Broadcast Communications: In Memoriam - Walter Cronkite (Albert Auster), haettu 19.7.2009 (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)"It was also ironic that Cronkite's first thirty minute newscast included an exclusive interview with President John F.Kennedy. Barely two months later Cronkite was first on the air reporting Kennedy's assassination, and in one of the rare instances when his journalist objectivity deserted him, he shed tears."
