American, 112, now world's oldest man
A 112-year-old American has become the world’s oldest living man after the death of 113-year-old Briton Henry Allingham on Saturday.
Walter Breuning was born on September 21, 1896. He learned to read by paraffin lantern, remembers his grandfather telling him about fighting in the 1860s US Civil War, and cast his first presidential ballot for Woodrow Wilson.