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  Charles Kuralt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Kuralt (10 September 1934 – 4 July 1997) was an award-winning American journalist.
Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Kuralt attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Kuralt gained notoriety after his death when it was learned that for 29 years he had been leading a double life, keeping and financing a mistress in his Montana fishing hideaway unbeknownst to his wife.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Kuralt   (293 words)

  
 JoMC at a Glance: Facilities: Kuralt Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Charles Kuralt Learning Center, in Carroll Hall, is a showplace of the School.
Kuralt, a Wilmington native, died July 4, 1997, at age 62.
Kuralt is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery on campus.
www.jomc.unc.edu /jomcataglance/facilities/center.html   (273 words)

  
 Charles Kuralt Collection Inventory (#4882)Version Without Folder/Item Lists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Charles Bishop Kuralt (1934-1997), newspaper, radio, and television journalist and author, was born in Wilmington, N.C. Kuralt attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1951-1955, where he served as editor of the Daily Tar Heel and worked for WUNC radio.
Kuralt was best known for his On the Road series, which began as a segment on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite in October 1967 and did not end, except for a brief interruption in 1980-1982 when he anchored the CBS Morning News, until 1988, and for his long-running television series Sunday Morning (1979-1994).
Kuralt, during his many public appearances, as well as in his writings and in his radio and television work, consciously placed himself in the middle of the long-established debate over who and what best represented America, not so much as a geographical entity, but as a cultural concept.
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 Kuralt_Charles_nc
Charles Kuralt is known widely for his stories about his experiences with the television series.
Kuralt is buried near the majestic crepe myrtle tree on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill.
Charles Kuralt will be remembered through these, his famous, words: "Time for us to part, you and I. Saying goodbye to the viewers of Sunday Morning is like saying goodbye to old friends.
www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/kuralt_charles_nc.htm   (665 words)

  
 Charles Kuralt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Charles Kuralt was born in 1934 in Wilmington NC.
His book On the Road with Charles Kuralt was published In 1985 and was named "Broadcaster of the Year." In 1990 he published his autobiography, A Life on the Road, resigned in 1994 from CBS and died in 1997 from lupus, heart disease and a lifetime of smoking.
Kuralt could have as easily chosen to be a muckraking journalist, but his style was not to be brutal or harsh.
history.acusd.edu /gen/20th/b/kuralt.html   (505 words)

  
 CNN - Charles Kuralt, CBS' poet of small-town America, dies at 62 - July 4, 1997
Kuralt was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 10, 1934, the son of a social worker and a teacher.
Kuralt edited the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina, where he graduated in 1955, and won the 1956 Ernie Pyle Memorial Award for his offbeat, human interest columns while working for the Charlotte, North Carolina, News.
Kuralt joined CBS in 1957 and moved quickly from rewrite to on-air correspondent, covering the 1960 presidential campaign before taking over as head of CBS' newly established Latin America bureau.
www.cnn.com /US/9707/04/kuralt.obit   (877 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Charles Kuralt -- July 4, 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Charles Kuralt one of the most distinguished voices in American journalism, died in New York City, July 4, from complications from lupus.
Charles Kuralt did die today, but in the world of television news, he will always be here today.
CHARLES KURALT: Time for us to part, you and I. Saying goodbye to the viewers of Sunday Morning is like saying goodbye to old friends.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/1997/kuralt_7-4.html   (655 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Charles Kuralt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sunday Mornings Sun logo for Sunday news Charles Kuralt, Host from 1979-1994 CBS Sunday Morning is an early morning news program CBS airs from 9:00-10:30 AM EST on Sunday mornings.
It is named for the Latin lupus, meaning wolf, due to the butterfly-shaped rash that the disease classically creates on the cheek which medieval...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the eleventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Charles-Kuralt   (655 words)

  
 Salon People | Charles Kuralt's secret life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kuralt was TV's rumpled Everyman, a bald, pudgy figure renowned for his sonorous voice and eloquent commentary.
Shannon estimated Kuralt sent $600,000 during the first decade, when their romance was the most intense and they saw each other often.
Kuralt bought an additional 90 acres abutting the land and moved an old schoolhouse to a bluff overlooking the river.
www.salon.com /people/feature/1999/06/08/kuralt   (1110 words)

  
 Kuralt, Charles
Charles Kuralt is best known for his critically acclaimed series of "On The Road" television "essays" on America and for his fifteen year tenure as host of the equally acclaimed CBS Sunday Morning series on CBS television.
Kuralt began his career as a reporter-columnist in 1955 for the Charlotte News.
Morning with Charles Kuralt would be criticized for being too slow-paced for the time period and, in mid-March 1982, Kuralt was replaced as anchor and sent back out on the road.
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 Charles Kuralt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Charles Kuralt (10 September 1934 – 4 July 1997) was an award-winning (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American journalist.
He worked as a reporter for the Charlotte News in his home state before moving to the (Click link for more info and facts about CBS) CBS network as a writer, where he became well-known as the host of the (Click link for more info and facts about Eyewitness to History) Eyewitness to History series.
By request in his will, Kuralt was buried on the grounds of his alma mater, the (Click link for more info and facts about University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in (Click link for more info and facts about Old Chapel Hill Cemetery) Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_kuralt.htm   (352 words)

  
 NewStandard: 7/5/97
NEW YORK -- Charles Kuralt, the avuncular CBS newsman whose "On The Road" reports celebrated offbeat America -- from unicyclists to horse traders to gasoline-pumping poets -- died on the Fourth of July.
Kuralt stayed "On the Road" for the next 13 years, logging up to 50,000 miles a year on back roads and byways with a two-man camera crew, wearing out half a dozen campers.
Kuralt moved quickly from rewrite to on-air correspondent, covering the 1960 presidential campaign before taking over as head of CBS' newly established Latin America bureau, and eventually became a roving correspondent.
www.s-t.com /daily/07-97/07-05-97/a01wn005.htm   (1361 words)

  
 Charles Kuralt's People
Writer Ralph Grizzle stumbled across Charles Kuralt's "People" columns while researching the book, "Remembering Charles Kuralt." He decided to compile them into a book of their own, because, as he writes in the introduction, "I thought then that they deserved a better home than the dark, closed drawers where they were stored on microfilm."
Kuralt wrote about a Charlotte that's now gone forever - but his words in these 169 columns written between April 15, 1956, and Dec. 28, 1956, still ring true about the value of each human being and the perseverance of the human spirit.
Kuralt talked to people on the street whom others would pass by and never think twice about.
www.charleskuraltspeople.com /salisbury_post.html   (668 words)

  
 Charles Kuralt Learning Center to open March 31
A private opening of the Kuralt Center will be held earlier on March 31 for Kuralt family members, including his two daughters, Susan Bowers and Lisa White, and fund-raising drive leaders and donors.
For the Kuralt Center, funds were used to digitize much of Kuralt’s TV works, including the famous CBS "On the Road" episodes so center visitors may watch the programs using touch-screen technology.
The Kuralt fellowship in international broadcasting is given to a graduate of the journalism school each year for a year-long job on Voice of America in Washington, D.C. Kuralt is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery on the campus.
www.unc.edu /news/archives/mar00/kuralt032100.htm   (726 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - REMEMBERING CHARLES KURALT by Ralph Grizzle
Charles Bishop Kuralt was born in Wilmington, North Carolina on September 10, 1934.
The book goes on to explain that young Charles became very familiar with relocating, as his father was forced to move frequently in order to obtain success and growing career stability.
It was not until 10 years later that the University modified its graduation requirements, allowing Charles to receive his bachelor of arts in History, not in Journalism as has been widely reported.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0967909600.asp   (697 words)

  
 Charles Kuralt and television
Of course, I've always considered Kuralt a good writer; it showed in his bearing before the camera that he was a man enamored with the language written.
Kuralt's book, Charles Kuralt's America, details his trips and has some telling comments tucked away amid his paeans of praise and adoration for a near-dozen outstanding places in the United States.
For the most part, Kuralt's book is like his other ``On the Road'' adventures as a CBS-TV newsman, but every now and then the author tucks in a wry comment that suggests his love affair with television and CBS had not only ended, it had unleashed his disdain.
www.toad.net /~andrews/kuralt.html   (969 words)

  
 Charles Kuralt, from North Carolina to CBS, On the Road
Charles mimeographs his own newspaper, The Garden Gazette, hawking news about newborns and new neighbors at 2 cents a copy.
An intellectually stimulating collection of insightful and occasionally poignant commentaries, Charles Kuralt's People is very highly recommended reading for students of the human condition in general, and legions of Charles Kuralt fans in particular.
Publishers of the first edition of "Remembering Charles Kuralt," now carried by The Globe Pequot Press, Kenilworth Media is a small, Asheville, North Carolina-based publishing firm committed to advancing the life works of Charles Kuralt.
www.rememberingcharleskuralt.com /timeline.html   (1625 words)

  
 Historic Personalities: Charles Kuralt
Charles Kuralt, a native of Wilmington, moved to Charlotte as a young boy when his father, Wallace Kuralt, became Director of the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services.
Pictured below is Kuralt with Principal Ann Clark, who was excited to bring one of her heros to share his stories of the school's past with today's students.
Kuralt went on to enroll at the University of North Carolina.
www.cmhpf.org /personalities/kuralt.html   (473 words)

  
 Charles Kuralt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Charles Kuralt is unique because he captured a part of America that is often overlooked, and by doing so gave viewers a glimpse in our humanity.
Kuralt talked about "falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it" as a boy, so he certainly was concerned with the rhythm of language and words from an early age.
Kuralt did not have an editing room in the bus, so he had to send explicit notes back with the film about how he wanted his spot edited.
www.southernscribe.com /zine/culture/Kuralt_Charles.htm   (2398 words)

  
 Alibris: Charles Kuralt
After almost four decades of life on the road, Charles Kuralt has visited every corner of the country, sharing with us his fascinating encounters with the people he's met along the way.
by Kubota, Hiroji, and Kuralt, Charles (Foreword by)
Charles Kuralt's brilliant narration accompanies multi-voice dramatization of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that brought the Statue of Liberty to New York Harbor.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Kuralt,Charles   (1288 words)

  
 Famous Quote by Charles Kuralt
The famous and inspirational quotation by Charles Kuralt detailed above is well known as an example of the famed verbal and spoken communication, citation or quotation used by the famous person.
Some of the quotes of Charles Kuralt will be familiar and some even deemed to be legendary and sometimes notorious quotes and quotations.
A quote by Charles Kuralt is often mis-spelt as qoute (qoutes) and quotation (qoutation) by Charles Kuralt..
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 The Memphis Flyer: Travel - July 24, 1997
That is the great lesson we should take from Charles Kuralt's life: Every now and then, just jump off the planned road and do something unplanned.
Of course, Kuralt was a man of television, and if you can find videos of his old On The Road shows, check them out and spend an evening with him.
Or go out and buy his last book, Charles Kuralt's America, which is a perfect example of his attitude and a highly recommended read.
www.memphisflyer.com /backissues/issue440/trvl440.htm   (865 words)

  
 Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Charles Kuralt: MAIN
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Charles Kuralt is best known for his critically acclaimed series of "On The...
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 Remembering Charles Kuralt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kuralt credits his love of words and the rhythm of language to her readings.
It was the 1950’s, and Kuralt used his gentle wisdom to cover topics like integration and Senator Joe McCarthy with his liberal idealism.
When the CBS sent their congratulations on the award, Kuralt jumped at the opportunity to seek employment with them.
www.southernscribe.com /reviews/biography-memoir/remembering_kuralt.htm   (522 words)

  
 Powell's Books - An American Moment with Charles Kuralt by Charles Kuralt
Charles Kuralt is a national treasure, a reporter and man of the world who was to many the real and true voice of America.
Charles Kuralt takes us on a journey from the countryside to the big cities introducing us to the interesting people and places that only he could find.
In his thirty-seven years with CBS News, Charles Kuralt won many honors, including thirteen Emmy Awards and three Peabody Awards for his work both "on the road" and on Sunday Morning.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0671582704-0   (276 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Best of On the Road with Charles Kuralt: The American Heritage (1991) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Charles Kuralt had a unique way of telling his stories that got the point across clearly yet with an eloquence rarely matched.
Through it all is Kuralt with that flowing style of storytelling that mesmerizes.
This is a great showcase of not only Charles Kuralt at his best but of America as well.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302816068?v=glance   (436 words)

  
 Charles Kuralt Biography -- Academy of Achievement
Charles Kuralt was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, and moved with his family up and down the state before they settled in Charlotte, North Carolina.
After a single week of substituting for a vacationing writer on Murrow's nightly broadcast, Kuralt was transferred to the fledgling television news department, as a writer for the CBS Evening News.
Charles Kuralt died in New York City at the age of 62.
www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/kur0bio-1   (705 words)

  
 The Park Library - Charles Kuralt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Charles Kuralt was born in Wilmington and attended UNC-CH, where he was the 1954-55 editor of The Daily Tar Heel.
In 1981 Kuralt was inaugurated into the UNC-CH School of Journalism's Hall of Fame.
Kuralt's papers are archived in UNC-CH Southern Historical Collection.
parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu /kuraltbio.html   (204 words)

  
 Kuralt Charles: 3D View of the Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In this tribute to Charles Kuralt, author Ralph Grizzle draws upon his interviews with dozens of people who knew the CBS news correspondent, including Kuralt`s childhood friends, family members, and colleagues.
- Charles Kuralt: A Life on the Road Go on the road with one of the most distinctive and recognizable newsmen of the century, and hear from his colleagues and friends.
Charles Kuralt - Charles Kuralt Filmography and trivia at IMDb.
www.resolve3d.com /Arts/People/K/Kuralt,Charles   (601 words)

  
 Charles Kuralt Profile -- Academy of Achievement
Charles Kuralt has been called "the poet laureate of the common man." For almost 30 years he wandered the back roads of America, finding inspiring stories in the lives of ordinary people in out of the way places.
Cowboys, farmers, pilots, fishermen, poets, inventors, Kuralt found his heroes in all 50 states and in all walks of life.
He began his career when television news was just beginning and, while still in his 20s, traveled the world covering the wars, riots and revolutions that make the headlines, but he will be remembered for the stories of people "doing wonderful things, quietly" that he brought into our living rooms, week after week.
www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/kur0pro-1   (356 words)

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