AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A University of Texas official says legendary newsman’s Walter Cronkite’s papers and photographs will be permanently housed at the Austin campus and then exhibited in May.
Don Carleton, director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Center, told The Daily Texan student newspaper that the papers are the “most influential documents in the history of broadcast journalism.”
He worked with Cronkite from 1988 until his death in July to secure the papers for the center, the newspaper reported. Cronkite’s will has been finalized allowing for the transfer.
The center already has the majority of Cronkite’s papers stored in its archives, including all of his reporter’s notebooks from his 1968 tour through Vietnam.
Carleton said a May exhibition is planned.
Cronkite wrote for the student newspaper before dropping out of UT in 1935 in his junior year.