Barbara Jill Walters: September 25, 1931–December 30, 2022
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Barbara Walters was an iconic and groundbreaking journalist and celebrity interviewer. Her television career began on NBC, but she was later "poached" by ABC at the famously high salary of $1 million, back in 1976, to be the co-anchor on the ABC Evening News. She experienced a great deal of resentment from her co-anchor, Harry Reasoner. She described that first year as "... very painful. Definitely the worst year of my life.” She was no longer an anchor, but she produced her own television specials, where she found enormous success as an interviewr. Her gravitas in this area was established by her interviewing people such as Golda Meir, Robert Kennedy, and Coretta Scott King. She also interviewed presidential candidates and helped to cover nominating conventions. Click on the link to read the article.