(1951-1954), "I've Got a Secret" (1952), "Who's the Boss" (1954), and history show "Stroke of Fate" (1952–1953). After the relative success of Stroke of Fate, he began co-hosting NBC Radio's long-running news magazine, "Monitor". Kiernan co-hosted "Monitor" from 1955 to 1960, when the program's format was dramatically changed. A familiar baritone voice on New York radio for many years, Kiernan's commentary program on WOR Radio's, "One Man's Opinion", was heard daily, in addition to co-anchoring WOR-TV's local evening news. He was also a past president of the "Catholic Actors Guild" in New York. In more national issues he was an early outspoken critic of United States policy in Vietnam, raising objections as early as 1965, and later covering the Paris peace talks. Walter Kiernan was most remembered in political circles for his reporting of every national political convention from 1940 through 1972. Kiernan retired from journalism after covering the 1968 Republican Convention in Miami. Walter Kiernan died after a protracted struggle with cancer in 1978 at the age of 75.