College drop-out and famed news reporter Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. passed away yesterday from complications relating to dementia.

As anchor of the CBS Evening news, he covered such events as the Cuban missile crisis, JFK assassination, Vietnam War, Apollo 11 landing, Apollo 13 crisis, Watergate scandal, and the Iran hostage crisis (adding the length of hostage captivity to the end of the broadcast).

Source: Kalena and his wiki.