Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite is a renowned, long-time television news anchor.

Tobacco industry documents
Walter Cronkite was featured in anti-smoking ads in the 1960s funded by the Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association. In one ad broadcast in April, 1969 he referred to smoking cigarettes "self-imposed torture."

In 1967, Philip Morris sponsored the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.


 * Advisory Council, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
 * Honorary Director, Drug Policy Alliance
 * Director, National Press Foundation
 * Board of Sponsors, Center for War/Peace Studies
 * Honorary Advisor, Free The Children
 * Honorary Councillor, World Future Council
 * Honorary Trustee, New England Aquarium
 * Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute: Four Freedoms Award (1989)

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