When I saw Lyle was the last post, I KNEW Lyle was going to talk about Dan Rather at some point. Dan Rather did some great reporting in his time and went on location to the some of the craziest places in the world like Afghanistan when the Russians were slaughtering them and they were still fighting all the way to when he interviewed Sadaam after the whole Axis of Evil deal. He fucked up bigtime at the end but he was an important figure in his own right.

Anyways, I came along almost a full 10 years after Kronkite left the desk so I obviously have never watched a Kronkite broadcast before going to bed but I have heard his more historical calls. Kind of like Johnny Carson where I knew they were icons and I knew what they were thought of but I never grew up and got to know Kronkite and Carson like my parents and grandparents did.

I did see him in the fantastic Jim McKay documentary that's OnDemand for HBO.