{"id":1610,"date":"2025-11-04T16:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aboutclassmates.com\/blog\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:07:36","slug":"walter-cronkite-high-school-yearbook-photo-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/walter-cronkite-high-school-yearbook-photo-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Cronkite High School Yearbook Photo &amp; Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"celeb_name\">Walter Cronkite<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Broadcast Journalist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Birthdate:&nbsp;<\/strong>Nov 04, 1916<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>High School:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/places\/class\/San-Jacinto-High-School\/5569?communityType=1&amp;year=1933&amp;?s=80640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">San Jacinto High School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yearbooks:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/yearbooks\/San-Jacinto-High-School\/32471?page=0&amp;?s=80640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Yearbook photos of Walter Cronkite from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/places\/class\/San-Jacinto-High-School\/5569?communityType=1&amp;year=1933&amp;?s=80640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">San Jacinto High School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" data-id=\"1658\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutclassmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/young-walter-cronkite.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Cronkite - 1933 senior Campus Cub yearbook portrait\" class=\"wp-image-1658\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" data-id=\"1659\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutclassmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/walter-cronkite-high-school.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Cronkite - 1933 senior Campus Cub staff yearbook portrait\" class=\"wp-image-1659\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" data-id=\"1660\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutclassmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/walter-cronkite-yearbook-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Cronkite - 1933 senior yearbook staff portrait\" class=\"wp-image-1660\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" data-id=\"1661\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutclassmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/walter-cronkite-teenager.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Cronkite - 1933 senior yearbook portrait\" class=\"wp-image-1661\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"431\" data-id=\"1662\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutclassmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SanJacintoHighSchool-1933-yearbook-cover.jpg\" alt=\"San Jacinto High School 1933 yearbook cover\" class=\"wp-image-1662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SanJacintoHighSchool-1933-yearbook-cover.jpg 323w, https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SanJacintoHighSchool-1933-yearbook-cover-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/yearbooks\/San-Jacinto-High-School\/32471?page=70&amp;?s=80640\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/yearbooks\/San-Jacinto-High-School\/32471?page=58&amp;?s=80640\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/yearbooks\/San-Jacinto-High-School\/32471?page=22&amp;?s=80640\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.<\/strong>&nbsp;(November 4, 1916 \u2013 July 17, 2009) was a broadcast journalist. He graduated from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/places\/class\/San-Jacinto-High-School\/5569?communityType=1&amp;year=1933&amp;?s=80640\">San Jacinto High School<\/a>, in Houston, TX, in 1933. While at San Jacinto, Cronkite was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper and co-editor of the yearbook\u2019s sports department. He also participated in band and Tennis Club, among other activities. Cronkite began his broadcasting career in the mid-1930s as a radio announcer and joined United Press (now UPI) in 1937. He was kept busy during World War II, becoming one of the top U.S. journalists to report on the conflict, and covered both the Battle of the Bulge and the post-war Nuremburg trials. He joined CBS News in 1950 and became the anchorman of the&nbsp;<em>CBS Evening News<\/em>&nbsp;in 1962, a position he held for 19 years. He almost always closed his broadcasts with the line \u201cAnd that\u2019s the way it is\u201d (followed by the date). Known as \u201cthe most trusted man in America,\u201d Cronkite was the primary reporting source for many of the country\u2019s biggest news events, including the assassination of President Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the first moon landing, and the events of Watergate. After he retired in 1981, Cronkite continued to do special correspondent work for decades as well as voice-over work and occasional TV and film appearances. In 2013, Missouri Western State University dedicated the Walter Cronkite Memorial in his memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awards (partial list):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>George Polk Freedom of The Press Award<\/strong>. 1970<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service<\/strong>. 1972<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/strong>. 1981<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NASA Ambassador of Exploration Award<\/strong>. 2006<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source: Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Cronkite Broadcast Journalist Birthdate:&nbsp;Nov 04, 1916 High School:&nbsp;San Jacinto High School Yearbooks:&nbsp;1933 Yearbook photos of Walter Cronkite from&nbsp;San Jacinto High School &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.&nbsp;(November 4, 1916 \u2013 July 17, 2009) was a broadcast journalist. He graduated from&nbsp;San Jacinto High School, in Houston, TX, in 1933. While at San Jacinto, Cronkite was editor-in-chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6686,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/6686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}