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Barbara Walters
Barbara Jill Walters was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, she appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View. Walters was a working journalist from 1951 until her retirement in 2014. Walters was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1989…
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culture · American journalist (1929–2022) · television presenter · news presenter · broadcast journalist · journalist · also Barbara Walters, Barbara Jill Walters, Walters
Born 25 September 1929 · Died 30 December 2022 · Q231417
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2026· 3 entries
Yahoo: The View Pays Tribute to Barbara Walters Before Season 30 Return Date
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Public attention spiked: 9,065 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6× the usual 1,511, with 0 article edits.
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2023· 1 entry
ABC ran a special called "Our Barbara" and a 20/20 senior producer noted, "For a number of years we kept her office just as is (after 2016), the papers came every day
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2022· 4 entries
Died 2022-12-30.
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“What kind of tree are you, if you think you're a tree now?”
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“She made me laugh. I will miss her. Baba Wawa.”
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“I can have respect and admiration for famous people, but I have never had a sense of fear or awe.”
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2020· 1 entry
By saying her iconic introduction to 20/20
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2019· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “Barbara Walters said Jane Fonda "betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War."” False.
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2018· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “Barabara Walters wrote that Jane Fonda "betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War."” False.
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2015· 2 entries
Walters hosted special 20/20 episodes featuring interviews with Mary Kay Letourneau and Donald and Melania Trump
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Walters hosted the documentary series American Scandals on Investigation Discovery
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2014· 1 entry
It was announced she would come out of retirement for a special 20/20 interview with Peter Rodger, the father of the perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings, Elliot Rodger
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2013· 4 entries
Awarded TCA Career Achievement Award (2013).
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Numerous media outlets reported that Walters would retire in May 2014 and that she would make the announcement on the show four days later
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Walters said she regretted not having more children
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In 2013, Walters said she regretted not having more children.
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2010· 2 entries
Walters announced that she would no longer hold Oscar interviews but would still work for ABC and on The View
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Walters said that she regretted having pushed him on the issue
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2009· 2 entries
Walters was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 30th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards at New York City's Lincoln Center
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Awarded Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for The View (2009).
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Disney Legends (2008).
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Walters was honored with the Disney Legends award, given to those who made an outstanding contribution to The Walt Disney Company, which owns the network ABC
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2007· 2 entries
Walters received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Dated Pulitzer Prize–winning gerontologist Robert Neil Butler
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2004· 1 entry
Walters remained a part-time contributor of special programming and interviews for ABC News until 2016
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2003· 1 entry
And Best Talk Show Host (with longtime host Joy Behar, moderator Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Sherri Shepherd) in 2009
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded News and Documentary Emmy Awards (2000).
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Quizzed pop star Ricky Martin about his sexuality years before he publicly came out
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1999· 1 entry
Her interview with Monica Lewinsky was seen by a record 74 million viewers, the highest rating ever for a news program
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Lucy Award (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
“different generations, backgrounds, and views.”
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded GLAAD Media Awards (1996).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award (1992).
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Television Hall of Fame (1989).
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Received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NATAS in 2000 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007
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1984· 2 entries
And remained with the program until she retired as co-host in 2004
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Moderated a presidential debate which was held at the Dana Center for the Humanities at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special (1983).
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1981· 2 entries
And divorced in 1984; they remarried in 1986 and divorced for the second and final time in 1992
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Five years after the start of their short-lived ABC partnership and well after Reasoner returned to CBS News, Walters and her former co-anchor had a memorable (and cordial) 20/20 interview on the occasion of Reasoner's n
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1979· 1 entry
Walters reunited with former The Today Show host Downs as a correspondent on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20
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1977· 1 entry
“s opinions stuck with her so much, she could repeat them almost verbatim from that point onward. Her television special about Cuban leader Fidel Castro aired on ABC-TV on June 9, 1977. Although the footage of her two days of interviewing Castro in Cuba showed his personality, in part, as freewheeling, charming, and humorous, she pointedly said to him,”
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1976· 1 entry
First aired her highly rated, occasional, primetime Barbara Walters Specials interview program
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for Today (1975).
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1974· 3 entries
Awarded Ladies' Home Journal Women of the Year (1974).
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When NBC officially designated Walters as the program's first female co-host
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Became co-host of the program, the first woman to hold such a position on an American news program
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1971· 2 entries
Walters hosted her own local NBC affiliate show, Not for Women Only, which ran in the mornings after The Today Show
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Refused to do joint interviews with Walters unless he was given the first three questions
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1970· 1 entry
With the assistance of ghostwriter June Callwood
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1968· 1 entry
And adopted the same year; she was named after Walters' sister)
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1953· 2 entries
Produced a 15-minute children's program, Ask the Camera, which was directed by Roone Arledge
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As writer-producer of a news-and-information program aimed at the juvenile audience, Ask the Camera, hosted by Sandy Becker
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1951· 1 entry
Earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York
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1942· 1 entry
Her father opened the club's famous New York location
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1929· 2 entries
In Boston, a daughter of Dena (née Seletsky) and Lou Walters (born Louis Abraham Warmwater); her parents were children of Russian Jewish immigrants
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Born 1929-09-25.
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1898· 1 entry
And moved to New York City with his father and two brothers on August 28, 1909
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