You can listen to it at: http://www.insideout.org/documentaries/meltingice/
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 12:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Uncle Walter Closes The Show BTW, Rych, can you archive that boradcast on the KFCF site and post a link? thanks. deb --- On Sat, 7/18/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Uncle Walter Closes The Show > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009, 12:29 AM > > > I was just clocking out of work when the CNN breaking news blast > showed up in my office email. My first thought was "the flash, > apparently official." > > But I came home, cracked a bottle of wine, and watched the tributes > before coming online. > > Not much to add. As a kid, my folks were Huntley/Brinkley Report > watchers while that lasted, but switched to CBS when Chet Huntley > retired. Still carry clear memories of the nightly Vietnam War dead > count, on both sides, as a kid. He must have been horrified to see > what passes for "news" these days, to take his leave at what we all > know is the time and day of the week to break news you don't really > want noticed. > Fat fucking chance. > > Farewell Uncle Walter. We owe you, big time. > > --Deb > > > > --- On Fri, 7/17/09, Rychard Withers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Rychard Withers <[email protected]> > > Subject: RE: Uncle Walter Closes The Show > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 9:15 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > It's a sad day for me . > > Walter was a hero of > > mine. > > He loved sailing and seab...@cbsnews was his email for a long time > > after he had retired. I found his email one day in the > CBS > > global directory and > > sent him an email and told him a story about how as a > five > > year old, I started > > school in Fresno. My parents were from West Virginia > and > > Alabama and I had a > > ferocious southern accent when I started elementary > school > > and got teased > > unmercifully. > > > > After school I would sit and watch > > the news with Walter > > Cronkite and imitate him and trained myself to not > have a > > southern accent but a > > Midwestern accent. Later in school I often had > English > > teachers asking me when I > > had moved to California from the Midwest. They all had > a > > hard time believing I > > had grown up here, as I didn't have San Joaquin > Valley > > speech patterns like git > > and ah-gin, warsh it and then put it thru the wrench cycle, etc. > > > > > > I told him thanks for being there > > and he had inspired my > > occasional forays into the journalism > > world. > > > > He wrote a note back saying he loved > > my story and it made him > > laugh to think there might have been a nation of > toddlers > > running around > > imitating him. > > > > I just retired the somewhat hokey > > KFCF radio promo for our > > news stringer fund I had done in my (poor) Walter > Cronkite > > impersonation. I just > > aired a radio documentary he had hosted on Glacial > > melting. > > > > America has lost a legend, and a > > voice. > > > > Rych > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: > > [email protected] > > > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Richard > > de > > Give > > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:29 PM > > To: > > [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Uncle Walter Closes The > > Show > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If Danny doesn't mind me > stealing > > his "teevee worth > > watching" line, CBS > will air a retrospective on > > Sunday at 7 p.m. (in the > > "60 Minutes" timeslot, > no less. > > > > --- On Fri, 7/17/09, Glenda > > Collins <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > From: > > Glenda Collins > <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Uncle > > Walter Closes > The Show > > To: "[email protected]" > > > <[email protected]> > > Cc: "[email protected]" > > > <[email protected]> > > Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 6:05 > > PM > > > > > > > > Very sad indeed. > How lucky are we > > that > > saw and heard > his broadcasts. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Jul 17, 2009, at 5:23 PM, [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Expected, > but still sad. > > > > > > -----Original > > > Message----- > > From: CNN Breaking News <[email protected]> > > To: > > [email protected] > > Sent: > > Fri, Jul > 17, 2009 8:22 pm > > Subject: CNN Breaking News > > > > > > -- Former > CBS News anchor Walter > > Cronkite is dead at age 92, CBS reports. > > > > > >+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= > > Politics from a new perspective. 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