Walter Cronkite & Russell Stover at rest in KC's Mt. Moriah Cemetery
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Jeff takes this episode of History Hunters to the Mt. Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri to visit the graves of legendary CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite and tell about his life, as well as visit the crypt of chocolate magnate Russell Stover and his wife Clara Stover.
This video will revisit the lives of both men and reveal some little known facts about both.
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So sad what has become of so called "journalism". Thanks for the memories of Walter.
Thank you for sharing! I look forward to seeing your videos every week. I need to send you an email and show you a few pieces of history about southwest Kansas.
I remember this movie called Cold Turkey and Walter Cronkite's name was changed to Walter Chronic. 😂😂😂. You might remember that Jeff?
I actually never saw that movie, so no. Lol.
I'm of the age to remember that terrible day...And I'd get up early to watch the lunar launches while the rest of my family slept!---Fast forward many years, I was privileged to be able to tour the Soviet Union on a nursing tour. Having grown up with Walter Cronkite's reporting (and years before with Chet Huntly & David Brinkley), I learned that the world isn't always as reported by Walter. ---I would have loved to explore the mausoleum...I think I'm fearless!
Jeff, thank you for reminding us of what a great man Mr Cronkite was. He was a first-class reporter. RIP MR Cronkite 🙏.
A great man? Friends of the Clinton's....
I would be scared to be locked inside after evening hours !!!!
Great video as usual.
I was struck by the simplicity of Mr. Cronkite's grave.
What an inspiring and authentic human being.
Great video. Like you I grew up with Walter Cronkite reporting the day's news. He kept it straight and gave you the facts, letting you make up your own mind about the events of the day. How refreshing, compared to today, where media packages the news according to their particular political viewpoint. The stories behind Russell Stover and his involvement with the Eskimo Pie was unknown to me. Eskimo Pie was one of my favorites as a kid. Funny, I would have expected Walter Cronkite's final resting place to be more like Stover's! Thank you for all the research and hard work you put into these videos.
"None of that will change". When reporters were reporters. "And now you know the rest of the story." Always loved him. Life is like, a box of chocolates!
Many people are starting to compare older architecture to modern. That mausoleum would be a great example. No character to modern buildings. Your camera lighted all the rooms so I didn't get the creepies, temperature and smell may have added to your experience. Thanks for another great video.
I was 4 when President Kennedy was assasinated...but I remember every detail of that moment in my house that continued for the next few days. I knew it was bad and very sad as my mother was crying. Seeing this man on TV take off his glasses with such emotion to share with the world what had happened. He was family to everyone. Also, remember with excitement and anticipation the landing on the moon. He just had this way about him. Never been anyone else like him ! He was something special. Thank you for another great history lesson and walk down memory lane. Happy Sunday Jeff and Sarah.
I'm older than you but I was in elementary school and out class was silent for the first time ever. Mom was crying when I got home and that was very rare. Terrible time.
I remember to,,,I was 5 1/2saw on tv,,,,,
For many our age, Cronkite is still the standard upon which we measure “news.”
Jeff would you fulfill my suggestion by visiting the grave of John philip sousa please and you are a sweet special kind guy on youtube 🌴🌴
Walter Cronkite WAS the news. No one has since even measured up to him. And that’s the way it is!
Welcome to Kansas City. So happy to see your video from my hometown. I have several family members buried at Mount Mariah.... Great video... Thank You!
Hello Jeff, Thanks for sharing the resting places of Walter Cronkite and Russell Stover and their stories. May they Rest 🙏 Peace. As alway's have a wonderful sunday!
So different now Walter was there and we could trust what he said. He was like a member of the family. Todays media too polarized too untrustworthy . Wish we could go back in time . Jeff this must have been a thrill for you with you being a newsman too. And thats the way it is another Great Vlog from History Hunters.
Amen!
Walter was on the air for so many key historical events of the 20th century 😮
Yes he was!
Walter Cronkite was THE voice that guided us through JFK's assination and funeral. A true professional who brought the nation through the most devastating news most of my generation had gone through at the time. We grieved and yet he was the wise grandfather who guided us with fact and not opinion. Today there are no "reporters" only opinion shows disguised as "news" 😥 Russell Stover candy is the best! Now my sweet tooth is yelling "Feed Me"!
Before he anchored CBS News he had a show in the 50's called "You Are There". Actors would dress up as various famous people each week and Walter would interview them. Famous naval heroes, Generals,. inventors, industrious pioneers like Andrew Carnegie, presidents, etc. It was on CBS on Sundays and always I watched it. I remember he interviewed Betsy Ross. CBS has fallen a long way down since the days of Edward R Murrow, Douglas Edwards and Walter Cronkite. Well done Jeff.😀
I grew up in Roeland Park, KS, I still to this day remember the Stover mansion in Mission Hills. While Mrs. Stover was alive and living in the mansion she had red awnings over all of the windows with her husband’s stylized initials on all of the awnings. When Mrs. Stover died they had an estate sale at the mansion, my mother and a friend of hers took me to the auction at the mansion. I’m sure my mother still has some trinkets that she bought there.
Egyptian motif because they’re Masons. Walter was too. Masons are very esoteric.Interesting video.
Walter Cronkite was on every night in our household growing up! His voice and the way he spoke the news just had a soothing effect on me. He was the best in my book. I was six when JFK was assassinated. I don’t remember the day of the shooting. Do remember coming home from church the Sunday after with my mom. My dad was watching the coverage on TV. My father never missed church but he did that day. My mom always loved Russell Stover chocolates. I bought her boxes over the years for many birthdays and Christmas gifts. She could’ve had more expensive chocolates but she preferred Russell Stover. I hope you and Sarah had a wonderful trip to visit your family!
I met Walter Cronkite during the 1996 Olympics during the boating events in Savannah Georgia and he was a very pleasant and ordial person to meet
I remember the moon landing and Walter’s coverage of it. I went outside that night and stared at the moon, so far away yet so close now. It was a beautiful summer night. Thank you Walter for sharing that event with me.
Thanks for sharing! What a surreal experience, huh?
He was the Nation’s gentleman and it was big news handing the baton over to Rather. I met Betsy a couple of times and she was unpretentious and a dignified, matronly like woman. Simple markers in the Heartland.
Another fascinating video. The outside of the mosuleum is one of the coolest I've ever seen. And I must agree, even on video, that is one of the creepiest I've see as well. And being the only person in there makes it even more creepy. Thanks for showing us this one.
I liked Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings. You’re right when you say local news has become national news anymore. The three network morning shows always talk about New York City news like it’s national news.
I was 8 years old when Kennedy was shot and sitting in my 3rd grade class in Castro Valley CA when the principal of the school came in to inform the teacher what had happened with tear's in their eye's they told us what had happened. It seemed that day that America had died. What a sad time. Thanks for sharing the video as always I enjoyed it.
Jeff, what an excellent, as always, video this is. That was an awesome tribute to Walter Cronkite. I was a child when Pres. Kennedy was assassinated. I recall every, single detail, as if it was yesterday. This is the first time I have seen the tape of an "emotional" Walter Cronkite since I saw it back then. I remember it like it just happened, including the removal of the glasses, and the hard swallowing. WOW
Unfortunately, I *know the Stovers all too well.😋 They made wise business decisions, and their candy is still around. There is something about mausoleums. I know what you mean, Jeff. That one is obviously very well kept up though. Thank you for sharing this with us. 🙏🏻❤️🩹💐
I can't remember yesterday well, but I sure do remember every detail bout Nov 22 1963. The Principal at my school came into our class room and took our teacher aside and told her the news, she started to cry, we had no idea what had happened til she came back in the classroom and told us.
@@sandraponce9895 EXACTLY, Sandra... It's etched in our memories, as clearly as if it just happened. I was just explaining that to my daughter. It really is amazing.💔
When I visited Martha’s Vineyard in the 90’s where many celebrities lived,
I remember being most excited to see Walter Cronkite of all people!
Very cool. Did you get to speak to him or only spot him from a distance?
Impeccable research, as always--and you possess such a eclectic collection of historic memorabilia! On-the-money Cronkite impersonation, too! We used to do impressions of his newscasting style when we were kids! :D
Wow, thank you!
Thank you Jeff. Didn’t expect such a simple marker, unadorned. But why in this day and age would anyone be interested in someone who gave us the straight story. I’m 68 and remember his space reporting. A true professional (much like yourself). Always looking forward to your next story.
I loved his voice!!!! He was one of a kind for sure!!!!
Jeff you are one brave guy to be in that mausoleum alone. No way Jose for me!
Yeah I was indeed the only one in there and it was not cool inside either! LOL
VERY interesting. Thank you. Brought back a lot of memories. Great impression of Walter as well! God bless. 😊
Oh yeah history Walter was a good news man
I’m from the UK so I don’t know Walter but what a voice , you could listen to it all day just so soothing 😍🤩💕
I’ll never forget his announcement of President Kennedy’s death. I was 12 years old.
What a horrible event for sure.
Growing up in the 70's the Stover house was a must stop for Halloween. She would give out 4 packs of chocolates. Fond memories thanks
Wow, so you got to meet Clara? I just bought her book and am reading it! They may have been rich later in life but wow, did they ever sacrifice and take risks!
I was 2 years old when President Kennedy died in 1963. I always like your videos. They're a great history lesson.
Thanks! Well seeing how I was also two years old when JFK was killed, I suppose we were both born in 1961?
Excellent historic reminders surrounding Walter Cronkite's life time. Enjoyed the Bible verse too. Have you visited Wyatt Earp's grave at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park
Colma, San Mateo County, California?
The mold was broken after Walter Cronkite. Sad that NO ONE will ever come close to his integrity. He was quite the man. Thanx Jeff!
Walter Cronkites family had a cabin in Northern Wisconsin near my home. It was called the wismo club. All the family's were rich family's from Missouri.
Walter Cronkite WAS the news when I was growing up in the 1960's. Between Cronkite and Huntley - Brinkley was a toss-up, but my parents always went with " The most trusted man in America".
My Auntie Gloria (the former actress) appeared on a TV episode of "You Are There" portraying the historical figure of Lady Jane Grey, broadcast from nearly seventy yrs ago, and so she probably met up w/ Cronkite (he was the host of the series) as they were most likely ensconced there in the same CBS studio. My paternal grandfather was a KC boy (yea!). Of course, L.A. has its chocolate emporium-head equivalent in Charles See, founder of See's Candies, and he's interred @ FLG. Speaking of the latter, if you felt uneasy being in the mausoleum depicted, you should try out the GM in the virtually uninhabited (visitor-wise) sections away from the LS Window area; one area is claimed to be haunted. 😀 I've been on the grounds in the oldest section of FLG an hour before closing when it was pitch dark outside (excepting the sporadic electrical light illuminations), and I found that to be SO K-O-O-O-O-O-L!
Wish today's newsmen/ladies gleaned something from WC. Not to be.... 😪
Great job really took me down memory road like reliving the past wonderful information and that's the way it was. Thank you your number one fan Lou Martell
Man, you sparked childhood memories of riding bikes through the cemetery and exploring the mausoleum.😊 That place was a childhood curiosity and I remember the television commercials and the cemetery.
You always do such fantastic videos, this was great, really enjoyed it. I remember coming home from school crying and then watching Cronkite announce the death of Kennedy.
I was only two years old when the JFK assassination occurred so I don’t remember it, but I choke up every time I see Cronkite delivering the horrible news to the American people. You could just feel the lump in his throat to acknowledge that such a popular president had been murdered. That’s just a horrible thing to happen to our leader no matter who he is.
If Walter had not been cremated he would roll over in his grave to see journalists and journalism today.
As always, fantastic coverage and content. I hope you enjoy your visit to our fine city! Thanks for all your work.
I don't know if you realized, but the mausoleum is a Masonic lodge. A few times a year, various local lodges will do degree work there. This is usually raising someone to Master Mason. I am a Freemason and have attended lodge there several times.
I love these videos. SO well done. Not too dramatic or morbid.
Great video and information. Mr. Cronkite was an original.
Very cool history... Forgotten by many, discovered by your video. Excellent work. Thank you for sharing. Take care Jeff. 🇺🇲
Walter Cronkite and Paul Harvey were the best.
Another great video. I will have to go visit Walter as I live only a few minutes away. Walter’s family was from St. Joseph, MO which is not too far from Kansas City. Walter lived in Kansas City, was married there, and I believe worked for The Kansas City Star. He came back occasionally to the area to visit. I remember him coming back to open the newly restored Folly Theater as well as helping launch the campaign to restore the once dilapidated Union Station, now a gem of Kansas City where the NFL Draft was just held. His cousin, Kay Barnes went on to become two term mayor of Kansas City, the first woman to hold the office. Once again, quite an enjoyable video. I hope you enjoyed or are enjoying your time in Kansas City. Hopefully you will get a chance to visit Union Station and the National World War Museum located up the hill from the station.
For some reason we were a Chet Huntley & David Brinkley household.
NBC never came in as clear a signal as CBS and ABC for us.
Because of tower collapses and PBS not transmitting to our area till 77 we were limited to two channels.
Recently found your channel and subbed.
We live down the road from you folks in Atwater.
Have you ever visited Wyatt Earp’s grave in Colma?
We found it several years ago.
We appreciate the research you do. Thanks for the history lessons!👍
Thanks for the sub! I have yet to visit the Earp grave in Colma but check out the video I did on the home he died in!
Jeff, Walter Cronkite was a news icon during his life …well done 👍
Excellent, I always learn so much from History Hunters!! Your videos are put together so well, very professional and informative, interesting. Thank you . Also I really like your voice!
You’re very sweet for that series of compliments! Thanks so very much!
I am 71 so I remember Walter Cronkite broadcasting the news very well. His mother is buried in Mt. Muncie cemetery in Lansing, KS.
It would be hard to forget this television icon! Thanks for watching!
This is a beautiful cemetery 👍
I used to watch Walter Cronkite with my Dad as a kid. RIP, sir! ❤
Russell stover has always been my favorite candy. Excellent presentation.
Thank you, Dianne! Nice to hear your comments!
That was a Freemason mausoleum that the Stovers were buries at.
Lovely presentation, very decent people. I saw Cronkite in person once. He was a really large person, very well built, well proportioned. About 6’5” like a football player. A true old school gentleman.
Walter was the man
Walter Cronkite was a fixture on our living room television when I was growing up in the 70's. He was a legend. And who doesn't love a box of Russell Stover chocolates? Thanks for your video, Jeff! I hope you and Sarah are having a fun summer!
In doing the genealogy of the family we found Walter Cronkite was indeed a distant relative of mine. When I worked at a TV station in the 70s I often thought about that. Great video.
Thanks for sharing, Rita! What a cool connection!
I remember Walter while watching the moon landing at our neighbors across the street from us when I was 7. We did so because they had a color TV. I always wondered why we did because the feed from the moon was black and white.
Yeah and TV back then had such poor picture quality compared to the 4K screens today. Makes you wonder what TV in 20 to 30 years will look like!
I've not seen Mr. Cronkite's grave before, thanks for taking us along. 😊
Thanks for watching!!
As always a very good history lesson. "And that's the way it is". Thank you.
You bet! Thank you, David, for watching and telling us!
Great running commentary and video additions. It did bring back memories and so dramatically reminded of how much news presentation has changed - FOR THE WORSE!! Good impersonation!
I would agree. Everything is so partisan and lopsided in mainstream media coverage.
@@jbenziggy I guess a lot of terrible things were going on in the US and world; but, we simply didn’t know about it. Recent history shows us that was actually better for our mental health.
My neighbor ran across the street to tell me to turn on my TV that President Kennedy had just been shot. We listened to Walter Cronkite and saw his grief and cired after he said our President had died. We broke down as well. Never had i seen a news person show any emotion before. It is a memory I have carried ever since that awful day.
Thank you for this episode.
I was only two years old when it happened, so I have no memory, but I have heard stories about my mother, who was in her 20s, breaking down and crying, and my grandmother admonish her to stop crying. My mother, then explained to her that she cried like a baby when Franklin Roosevelt died. I just think my grandmother was upset to see her daughter upset and crying. No matter who your president is it’s a horrible thing to experience an assassination.
A legendary broadcaster, even for those of us in the UK.
We had Richard Dimbleby, the USA had Walter Cronkite. Two titans of news broadcasting whose like I doubt we shall see again.
As always Jeff, Nice video. I too remember watching Mr Cronkite as a child when we visited my grandparents… Thanks for bringing back the memories!☺️
One of the first things I remember Walter announcing was the wreck of Edmond Fitzgerald in November 1975.
Oh yeah, the famous wreck that led to the Gordon Lightfoot song!
@@jbenziggy yes.
I remember you could trust what Walter told you. Not like today. And yeah, the 24 hour news cycle is really something 🙄 And most of it bad news. I surely do miss Walter 😔 I'm glad I don't have to miss Russell Stovers chocolates. 😋 The mausoleum was beautiful really!
So what do you mean you don’t have to miss Russell Stover chocolates? Does that mean you’ve never tried them?
@@jbenziggy Haha 😄 No! They are still around. So I can still have some. 😃
Thank you for the research and great production quality you put into this. I, like you, grew up watching Cronkite as a kid, otherwise known as "the remote control!" I've called KC home for close to 30 years and didn't realize he was buried here. Walt retired to his yacht and would sail the Intercoastal waterway along the eastern seaboard. Periodically, he would moor up at the Fairfield Harbor marina in New Bern, NC where I grew up. Thanks again Jeff for the great content!
Jeff...... the two major events that I remember Walter for was Kennedy's demise and the moon landing. Thank you for this vlog.
Who can forget his coverage of JFK's assassination? He could hardly contain his grief.
I get a lump in my throat seeing him announce. The emotion behind such a devastating announcement.
@jbenziggy I was 11 and remember his announcement, and we were all in tears.
Hi Jeff . Nice vlog. I remember him but I wasn't into the news when I was younger. My bad . Also Walter was George Clooneys Godfather. !! Thanks. Deborah 🇨🇦
Great video. I remember watching Walter Cronkite. I enjoyed the Russell and Clara Stover story.
It's me again! Walter Conkite was born in that town where Jesse James passed away. We have the Walter Conkite Memorial Hwy here in good ol' St Joseph.
When I was a kid in the 60's I used to get Walter Cronkite confused with Captain Kangaroo...lol
One had a goofy haircut, and the other didn’t. Lol.
But both spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways @@jbenziggy
Walter was sailing in a business suit and that's the way it was. 😊
It always strikes me as being odd that when you see pictures of Disneyland in the 1950s how everyone had a suit on. Looks very stiff but people like to dress up back then and I think that’s what’s missing from society today.
Walter Cronkite was an Amateur Radio Operator call-sign KB2GSD
Thankyou for another interesting video. The mausoleum looked like an incredible building. Nancy
I remember when Walter Cronkite met the legendary Ted Baxter of WJM in Minneapolis.
Another great post. Also, the Russell Stover candy is the candy we give on special occasions. Thanks Jeff.
Jeff, I had the pleasure of meeting him in 2006 at the Henry Ford Museum where I worked at the time. Small world he was a friend of an acquaintance of mine. Walter Cronkite probably would have been buried in Kansas City or Kansas even if he had not married his wife. His mother is buried in Mount Muncie cemetery in Lansing, Kansas. If you ever go to Lansing Kansas, the In Cold Blood Killers are there. Walter Cronkite's Mother had family in Leavenworth, Kansas. They owned a store there which were Walter Cronkite's Grandparents. His Father's family was from St. Joseph, MO. Really enjoyed your show today, thanks for sharing 👍 😀 😊.
A GREAT American! Good that Jimmy honored him with the Presidential medal of Freedom. Walter put his life on the line covering the War in Europe. He flew on B-17 missions as did Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable. Walter was pure class.
Thanks for the history on walter.. and the chocolate manufacturing family.
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Good Walter, Jeff. I couldn't say who is on CBS or who is on anything. They all seem so similar, Oh well...He was the standard.
I was born in 1958. When you heard Walter’s voice, one would get a calming feeling. Kind of like listening to Vin Scully. BTW, great imitation Jeff!
Remember that announcement so very well. And he deserves all the alkaloids. And then some. Thank you Jeff.
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Hi Jeff, such a sweet visit at Walters grave site. Yes I do remember him every night my mother watched him she liked his news reports. This is well done. Thank you for the time and effort. See you again on the next visit. As always I enjoy your videos. God bless.💯❤️👍🇺🇲🙋
Walter Cronkite, back when News was Honorable and Respectable, Sadly, No more of that, it's all about how much money you can make on your reporting.
Really injoyed that memory lane with cronkit👍, but the Stovers were WoW! 1922 $30.000 ah week not bad😅✌
If there is anything I would like to ask Walter Cronkite if I was able to bring him back is what he NOW, in 2023, thinks of the movie "Network". I rewatched the movie a few years ago. In 1976 it was considered an outrageous black satire on the state of network television - especially the news. To watch it now is absolutely gasp-inducing in how much of that movie came to be. To get a better example, you can watch the entire 4 days of the CBS footage the weekend that JFK was assassinated on You Tube. You'll see for yourself just how far we sunk in reporting news since then. To say men like Cronkite was above the rest is an understatement. How I wish we could have men like him back in the business running it like they did 50 years ago - when the news division was designed to LOSE money because facts are what mattered, not what they thought the public wanted.