I Miss Charles Kuralt
Harper Scott 
What a guy, what a storyteller.
His On The Road segments for CBS News Sunday Morning were perfection on an early Sunday morning.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 28, 2018 9:49 PM |
Was Charles a homosexual?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 17, 2018 2:27 PM |
I miss Tim Russert.
I miss when Lou Dobbs and Geraldo Rivera were liberals, rather than paid Conserva-Whores.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 17, 2018 2:43 PM |
Lou Dobbs was never a liberal, he masquaraded as a centrist.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 17, 2018 2:51 PM |
He was a favorite of mine, particularly because of our shared NC/UNC connections. I went to his funeral in Chapel Hill when I was a student there.
On the Road and Sunday Morning were two different projects, actually. On the Road aired as part of the evening news with Cronkite, Sunday Morning started later and was originated by Kuralt.
His father was a county health director in North Carolina in the post-war era and was one of the greatest proponents of forced sterilization. He is beloved to be responsible for over 10,000 such procedures.
In honor of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Roanoke colony, famous North Carolinians were asked to contribute something to the cultural celebrations that were being held. Kuralt and Charlotte-born composer Loomis McGlohan created an album called ‘North Carolina Is My Home’ that was sent out to all the schools in the state. It later was made into a film that used to be shown often on our PBS stations. It really highlights Kuralt’s way with words and I listen to it sometimes when I’m feeling a little low. Here’s one of my favorite cuts, a lyric poem that’s conversation between him and a successful businessman in a French restaurant in New York. I love the ending, “Young folks think on that man’s folly, before you board that bus in Raleigh... They have limousines, diamond rings, designer jeans and such like things but there is nothing to eat up there.” Perfect!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 17, 2018 2:57 PM |
I always confused Charles Kuralt and Charles Osgood.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 17, 2018 3:03 PM |
His father was a county health director in North Carolina in the post-war era and was one of the greatest proponents of forced sterilization. He is beloved to be responsible for over 10,000 such procedures. >> So his dad was a Nazi
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 17, 2018 3:15 PM |
Wiki:
"Two years after his death, Kuralt's decades-long companionship with a Montana woman named Patricia Shannon was made public. Kuralt apparently had a second, "shadow" family with Shannon while his wife lived in New York City and his daughters from a previous marriage lived on the eastern seaboard. Shannon asserted that the house in Montana had been willed to her, a position upheld by the Montana Supreme Court.[14][15][16][17] According to court testimony, Kuralt had met Shannon while doing a story on "Pat Baker Park"[18] in Reno, Nevada, that Shannon had promoted and volunteered to build in 1968. The park was in a low-income area of Reno that had no parks until Shannon promoted her plan. Kuralt mentions Pat Shannon and the building of the park—but not the nature of their relationship together—in his autobiography.[19][20][21][22]"
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 17, 2018 3:19 PM |
R8, I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that, as he generally was a New Deal Democrat and championed abortion rights and bill control pills in the belief that smaller families would help alleviate poverty.
I misspoke when I said he was responsible for 10,000 sterilizations. There were 7,500 done in N.C. during the time Kuralt’s father was championing the practice.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 17, 2018 3:28 PM |
The problem with him wasn't the 1 "Miss Charles Kuralt" but rather the 2 SIMULTANEOUS Mrs. Charles Kuralts.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 26, 2018 3:09 PM |
Me too, OP. Great segments.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 26, 2018 4:23 PM |
R11 I see what you did there.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 26, 2018 8:44 PM |
His legal wife died just a few years after he did, but I can't find anything on his gf.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 28, 2018 8:52 PM |
Many years ago, he did a segment from the Little Big Horn battlefield; I think it was around the centenary of Custer's defeat (so, 1976). I've tried without luck to find it online. Anyway, I recall it as one of the most moving commentaries on the promise, tragedy, and disappointment of American history that I'd ever seen.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 28, 2018 9:38 PM |
i think of him every Sunday morning when I hear the French Horns theme song and then see..... Jane Pauley. But Jane is great - she just doesn't have that 'VOICE' that I found so soothing and relaxing.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 28, 2018 9:49 PM |
