Meeting Walter Cronkite: Here’s the way it really was

Walter Cronkite at the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami.

I met Walter Cronkite once, in 1972.

Our meeting may not have changed my life, but our brief and exciting encounter certainly cemented it.

I was a photojournalist covering the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach for the Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University’s campus newspaper.

Illinois Republicans had headquartered themselves at the Playboy Plaza Hotel. A great many Republican groups were staying there, along with many celebrities supporting the re-election of President Richard Nixon. (Read more…)