Charles Bishop Kuralt was an American television, newspaper and radio journalist and author.
23 Facts About Charles Kuralt
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Charles Kuralt is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years.
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Charles Kuralt shared in a third Peabody awarded to CBS News Sunday Morning in 1979.
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When he was 14 years old, Charles Kuralt became one of the youngest radio announcers in the country, covering minor-league baseball games and hosting a music show.
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Later, at Charlotte's Central High School, Charles Kuralt was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" in his graduating class of 1951.
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Charles Kuralt attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Charles Kuralt became editor of The Daily Tar Heel and worked for WUNC radio.
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Charles Kuralt had a starring role in a radio program called American Adventure: A Study of Man in The New World in the episode titled "Hearth Fire", which aired on August 4,1955.
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Charles Kuralt graduated from UNC in 1955 with a degree in history.
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Charles Kuralt wrote "Charles Kuralt's People," a column that won an Ernie Pyle Award in 1956.
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Charles Kuralt became the first host of the primetime series Eyewitness to History in 1960.
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Charles Kuralt said, ""Every time I got sent to Vietnam I seemed to get into some terrible situation without really trying too hard.
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Charles Kuralt and covered the revolution in the Congo.
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Charles Kuralt hit the road in a motor home with a small crew and avoided the interstates in favor of the nation's back roads in search of America's people and their doings.
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Charles Kuralt said, "Interstate highways allow you to drive coast to coast, without seeing anything".
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Charles Kuralt won a George Polk Awards in 1980 for National Television Reporting.
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Since 2011, Charles Kuralt's format was revived by CBS News, with Steve Hartman taking Charles Kuralt's space.
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Charles Kuralt left the weekday broadcasts in March 1982, but continued to anchor Sunday Morning.
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Charles Kuralt was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Val John Guthery of Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Charles Kuralt refused to alter his habits in favor of healthier ones; he ate unhealthy food, drank and smoke.
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Charles Kuralt was once pulled over for driving under the influence.
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Late in his life, Charles Kuralt became ill with systemic lupus erythematosus.
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Charles Kuralt had a second, "shadow" family with Shannon of which his wife was unaware.