Journalists these days are as often reviled as admired, distrusted as trusted.

Walter Cronkite never had that problem.

In a career that spanned the Great Depression to the election to the first African-American U.S. president, Cronkite earned and kept the respect, trust and even love of the American people.

He dropped out of the University of Texas in 1935 and worked as a newspaper reporter before landing a job at an Oklahoma radio station as a sports announcer.

He later moved to a station in Kansas City, where he met his future wife, Betsy. They...

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