1. Janet Leola Langhart Cohen is an American television journalist and anchor, and author.
23 Facts About Janet Langhart
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Janet Langhart serves as president and CEO of Langhart Communication.
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Janet Langhart is the spouse of former Defense Secretary William Cohen.
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Janet Langhart has written two memoirs, one with her husband.
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Janet Langhart was born as Janet Leola Floyd in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1941.
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Janet Langhart's mother married a Baptist preacher, but they ultimately divorced.
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In 1959, Janet Langhart Floyd earned her high school diploma from Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis.
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Janet Langhart was a member of the band and debate team.
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In 1962, Janet Langhart began her career in Chicago as a model, where she worked for Marshall Field's and the Ebony Fashion Fair.
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Janet Langhart won the title of Miss Chicagoland in 1967.
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At the age of 29, Janet Langhart became the first black "weathergirl" for WBBM-TV in 1970, having previously been the "weather gal" at channel 26, WCIU.
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Janet Langhart became a well-known black television journalist at numerous stations.
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Janet Langhart would leave and return several times between 1973 and 1987.
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Janet Langhart became known for her interviews with celebrities and news-makers.
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Janet Langhart was hired by NBC in mid-1978, and relocated to New York to host a daily talk and interview show called People to People.
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Janet Langhart returned to Boston television, producing some special programming for WNEV-TV.
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Janet Langhart has worked as a correspondent for the Boston Herald, and the Boston Globe.
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Janet Langhart met William Cohen during a long-distance interview when she was based in Boston and he was a Congressman from Maine.
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Janet Langhart spurred several initiatives to support the morale and well-being of military and civilian employees of the Defense Department, including the Military Family Forum, the Pentagon Pops concert series, the Secretary of Defense Annual Holiday Tour, and her series of interviews on Pentagon TV, Special Assignment.
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Janet Langhart was given a volunteer position as "First Lady of the USO" and helped recruit celebrities and civilians to work with the United Service Organizations.
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In 1999, Janet Langhart-Cohen founded the Citizen Patriot Organization, a non-profit dedicated to recognizing "those who serve, protect, and defend the United States of America".
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Janet Langhart is the author of a memoir, My Life in Two Americas; From Rage to Reason.
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Janet Langhart wrote Anne and Emmett, a one-act play that imagines a conversation between Anne Frank, a German Jew who died in a Nazi concentration camp, and Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago who was lynched in a small town in the Mississippi Delta.