The creator of the popular women’s talk show The View in 1997 died yesterday at her home in New York at the age of 93
Barbara Walters, one of the most featured women in American television, the first ever to anchor an evening newscast and secured historic interviews with world leaders and celebrities for US television during her career since 1951 until she retired from television in 2015, has died at the age of 93, ABC News, for which she primarily worked, reported Friday.
The 1997 creator of the popular women’s talk show The View died yesterday at her home in New York, Robert Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Co., which owns ABC News, said on Twitter. .
In her five-decade career, Barbara Walters has interviewed every US president and first lady since Richard and Pat Nixon, as well as Cuban leader Fidel Castro, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the former leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi, the former dictator of Iraq Saddam Hussein, the former president of Egypt Anwar Sadat, famous artists and other personalities.
He won 12 Emmy Awards, 11 of them while working for ABC News, the network recalled,
Walters began her journalism career on NBC News’ The Today Show in the 1960s as a writer and producer. She made history when she became the co-anchor of the network’s evening newscast, alongside Harry Reasoner.
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