Walter Cronkite, best known for being anchor and managing editor for CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981, has died Friday, reports say. He was 92.

Cronkite died in his home in New York, according to CBS Vice President Linda Mason. Cronkite had long been struggling against an illness, which, according to speculations, was Cronkite’s cause of death.

Cronkite was at his prime during the 60′s and 70′s, and was one of the leading men guiding the United States through times of turmoil. He was subsequently hailed as America’s “most trusted man”, a title which lives on up to now.

“Walter was truly the father of television news,” CBS correspondent Morley Safer states. “The trust that viewers placed in him was based on the recognition of his fairness, honesty and strict objectivity.”

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