Sunday, July 19, 2009

Walter Cronkite, KB2GSD Silent Key :

Walter Cronkite, one of the world's most famous broadcasters and TV journalists died in New York on July 17th at the age of 92. Almost all the papers today are carrying a story on him today.

He was an avid ham radio enthusiast with the call sign KB2GSD. He also produced a very good documentary complementing the hobby of amateur radio for television. His other hobby was yachting. These facts have been missed out by the news reports. In fact he was the guy who first broke the news of John .F Kennedy's assassination and man's landing on moon.

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