--- title: Walter Cronkite 100 Years Celebrated by Google Doodle description: Today's Google Doodle is celebrating what would be the 100th birthday of the legendary broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite canonical: https://time.com/4558210/google-doodle-walter-cronkite/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-04T13:08:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:23.400Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Walter Cronkite's 100th Birthday og:description: Today's Google Doodle celebrates what would be Walter Cronkite's 100th birthday og:url: https://time.com/4558210/google-doodle-walter-cronkite/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec274998d3b77d26/6988ad07fb4eacaaad88fbe0/walter-cronkite-100.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Walter Cronkite og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Walter Cronkite's 100th Birthday twitter:description: Today's Google Doodle celebrates what would be Walter Cronkite's 100th birthday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec274998d3b77d26/6988ad07fb4eacaaad88fbe0/walter-cronkite-100.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Celebrates Walter Cronkite's 100th Birthday by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Nov 4, 2016 1:08 PM UTC  Today's Google Doodle is celebrating what would be the 100th birthday of Walter Cronkite Today's Google Doodle is celebrating what would be the 100th birthday of Walter CronkiteCBS Photo Archive/Getty Images by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Nov 4, 2016 1:08 PM UTC Today’s Google Doodle is [celebrating](https://www.google.com/doodles/walter-cronkites-100th-birthday) what would be the 100th birthday of [Walter Cronkite](http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1911501,00.html), the [legendary broadcast journalist](http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1911504,00.html) that TIME described as ‘The Man With America’s Trust,’ following his death in 2009. Cronkite was an even-keeled news reporter and reader, affectionately known as “Uncle Walter” to the American public. After serving as a war correspondent in World War Two and working for United Press in Europe after the war (reporting from Nuremberg and Moscow), Cronkite returned to the States and joined CBS’ fledgling TV news operation. Following an ill-fated stint as a morning-show host, he became a fixture of CBS political coverage and began hosting the evening news in 1962. “Walter has an almost messianic turn of mind. He feels so much responsibility; he feels that if he doesn’t get it right, nobody else is going to get it right,” one of his writers told the _Washington_ _Post_ on Cronkite’s retirement in 1981\. “And that is the reason he is number one. People know that Walter Cronkite would never lie to them. Never. Because it is his religion.” Previously, Google’s Nov. 4 doodle has celebrated the 20th anniversary of the _Wallace and Gromit_ characters, the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street and the 84th birthday of Shakuntala Devi, the Indian writer and mathematical prodigy known as the “human computer”. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4558210/google-doodle-walter-cronkite/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4558210/google-doodle-walter-cronkite/"},"headline":"New Google Doodle Celebrates Walter Cronkite's 100th Birthday","datePublished":"2016-11-04T13:08:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:23.400Z","description":"TIME described Cronkite as 'The Man With America's Trust,' following his death in 2009","url":"https://time.com/4558210/google-doodle-walter-cronkite/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec274998d3b77d26/6988ad07fb4eacaaad88fbe0/walter-cronkite-100.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec274998d3b77d26/6988ad07fb4eacaaad88fbe0/walter-cronkite-100.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Walter Cronkite","caption":"Closeup of American broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite of the 'CBS Evening News, circa 1975.","creditText":"CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4558210/google-doodle-walter-cronkite/","name":"New Google Doodle Celebrates Walter Cronkite's 100th Birthday"}}]}] ```