[GreenKeys] Walter Cronkite and Model 28s

[Ron Ott]

It's ironic that Katy Couric, who "replaced" Walter Cronkite in the anchor's seat decades later, questioned the amounts of money being spent on the US space program in her "Katy's Notebook" segment one day on CBS radio. "Think of what we could do on Earth with all that money!"  I wonder if Walt heard it and ever gave her a very different opinion.  I just wasn't fast enough on the volume knob that day, and I still wonder what we could do on Earth with half her salary.

Ron
W6XY




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From: "jcoward5452 at aol.com" <jcoward5452 at aol.com>
To: w3nu at roadrunner.com; greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 5:20:10 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Walter Cronkite and Model 28s

I had the very brief privlege of meeting the man 35 years ago. I was 
working at a boatyard,Edgartown Marine, when Walter and his son docked 
and requested service.So I pumped gas for him,said a quick "how do you 
do", and a firm handshake.A warm and personable guy.
  ( i did the math: he was 57 then,I am 57 now.)
  All during the early space race years, Mercury and Geminii,my parents 
let us kids stay home from school and watch the launches with Walter 
Cronkite narrating every spell bound moment.
  In his passing,we have lost one of the truely great of the Greatest 
Generation.

Jay








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From: Charles Ring <w3nu at roadrunner.com>
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 3:43 pm
Subject: [GreenKeys] Walter Cronkite and Model 28s



One of my memories of Walter Cronkite is the row of 28RO's on his set. 
I
seem to remember that they were working and someone occasionally would
rip copy off them during the show.Two curiosities: which news feeds 
were
they printing, and I never saw a 28 on AP or UPI elsewhere except the
one I connected at WPIC as a backup to the very unreliable early Extel
dot matrix printers. I know that 28RO's were used on the NOAA weather
wires (I have one of those).
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