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(102,283 posts)RIP, Barbara
Takket
(21,573 posts)She was a giant! RIP
FalloutShelter
(11,868 posts)Crashed the glass ceiling.
R.I.P.
Bawbwa Wawa
nightwing1240
(1,996 posts)RIP
True Dough
(17,305 posts)That's a pretty long life, and she did great things.
RIP
PCIntern
(25,552 posts)I lived in a house that was formerly owned by one of the three partners who owned the Valley Forge music Fair outside of Philadelphia, and Barbaras husband, to whom she was married for a reasonably short time, but had a child by, was one of the partners, and she had multiple Passover Seders in what was to become my home.
No, I dont believe that everything is about me, but I was always amazed by that fact.
Lemonwurst
(287 posts)Sometimes our lives intersect slightly with those who are influential, for any reason, and it reminds us that we are really all connected.
MontanaMama
(23,319 posts)Small world. Thanks for telling us.
BOSSHOG
(37,062 posts)Barbara Walters was a classic fact seeker.
Off topic. I got a Mike Schmidt 1980 World Series Championship Ring for Christmas. It might be the original. Were still checking
We are living in the former home of the grandparents of the best Doctor in town. Love ya Philly.
tavernier
(12,389 posts)but I think that still qualifies as had a child by
PCIntern
(25,552 posts)My error. Ms Walters would say I had a seven year-old at that time when I moved to and I got distracted. I recall the profile on her daughter some years ago.
malaise
(269,022 posts)Babs broke the glass ceiling
jimlup
(7,968 posts)She was such a morning mainstay back in the day. I remember growing up and just assuming she would always be on the Today Show. Time passes...
BigmanPigman
(51,607 posts)So many of the people I admire and end up Googling are in their mid- to late 80s. A lot!!!
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Been thinking that a lot myself, lately.
Do not ask for whom the bell tolls
beaglelover
(3,486 posts)She was such a trailblazer in her industry. They showed her final day on the view, and all these women from all the other news networks made an appearance to thank her. It was very emotional.
Raine
(30,540 posts)R-I-P Barbara Walters
nolabear
(41,984 posts)A giant. A leader. A pioneer. May she be remembered.
calimary
(81,298 posts)She was a BIG inspiration to me when I was getting started. Massive!
Talitha
(6,593 posts)Upthevibe
(8,051 posts)She was THE trailblazer for woman in journalism.
It seems she lived a very fulfilling life....R.I.P., Ms. Walters...
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)I know it became fashionable to make fun of her because her later career was stuff like The View and celebrity interviews, but she also spent a good part of her career as a pretty serious newswoman and chased down "gets" with amazing tenacity. Apparently she and Diane Sawyer, even in Ms Walters' later years, constantly competed with each other to get the high profile exclusives.
Not to mention she had her own production company and was the first woman in journalism to really do that--and she made a ton of money from it.
I also hate that it happens so close to NYE because Cheri Oteri always did a great Barbara Walters bit on CNN's NYE show, especially a couple years ago.
iloveObama12
(421 posts)Rest In Peace Barbara Walters
a kennedy
(29,669 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,369 posts)A great loss.
EnergizedLib
(1,895 posts)I remember watching her and Hugh Downs on 20/20 when I was real small.
Stinky The Clown
(67,807 posts)Thank you good lady for all you gave our society.
Bucky
(54,014 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)My first memories of her is the Today show along with Hugh Downs.
A true trailblazer.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)RIP, Barbara.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,291 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)Barbara Walters, the iconic newswoman and celebrity interviewer who made history for women and Jewish anchors on mainstream American news television, died at 93 on Friday.
ABC News, where Walters regularly appeared on shows such as 20/20 and The View, shared the news without giving a cause of death.
Before becoming one of the most enduring and talked about news hosts in the world from the 1970s through the 2000s, Walters was raised by parents descended from Jewish immigrants who fled antisemitism in Eastern Europe. Her father Lou founded a chain of nightclubs and moved the family from Boston to Miami to New York, gaining and losing fortunes along the way.
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Walters also scored the first joint interview with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, before they finished negotiating a historic peace agreement in 1979. In 1977, she had also interviewed Sadat on his flight to meet with Begin in Israel.
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