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Walter Cronkite, a Rare card
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 480,000
Ranked #718 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll.
- Cronkite received numerous honors including two Peabody Awards, a George Polk Award, an Emmy Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- Cronkite reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II, the Nuremberg trials, combat in the Vietnam War, the Dawson's Field hijackings, Watergate, the Iran hostage crisis, and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr., and Beatles musician John Lennon.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Walter Cronkite article was read about 480,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Walter Cronkite
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Walter Cronkite (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.





