Yesterday, Walter Cronkite, iconic host of the CBS Evening News for almost 20 years, passed in New York.

Here's the broadcast Cronkite did the day Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. It's chilling, maybe especially for those of us, cough, who weren't even alive back then.

The Times, as usual, has the go-to piece here.

The American media universe has shattered since Cronkite's departure from CBS. We're not going see his like again: one man shaping the entire national conversation.

Our condolences and best wishes to the Cronkite family.