Charles Kuralt (September 10, 1934 – July 4, 1997) was an American journalist. He was most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years.Kuralt's "On the Road" segments were recognized twice with personal Peabody Awards. The first, awarded in 1968, cited those segments as heartwarming and "nostalgic vignettes"; in 1975, the award was for his work as a U.S. "bicentennial historian"; his work "capture[d] the individuality of the people, the dynamic growth inherent in the area, and ...the rich heritage of this great nation." He shared in a third Peabody awarded to CBS News Sunday Morning.While studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill he participated in a radio program called "American Adventure: A Study Of Man In The New World" in the episode titled "Hearth Fire". It is a telling of the advent of TVA's building lakes written by John Ealey and directed by John Clayton. The episode starred Josephine Sharkey, a local hosewife and Charles Kuralt, a university student played the TVA agent. Its origianal air date was 8-04-1955. The series was produced by the University of North Carolina Communication Center, The National Association of Educational Broadcasters and The Fund For Adult Education, an independent Agency established by the Ford Foundation.
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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This is a place where you can hear fall coming for miles. [said about Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin, Sunday Morning, CBS TV, 12 October 1986]
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Retires, to travel & write. [April 1994]
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 138, pages 278-282. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 335-336. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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3/22/00: A judge in Virginia City, MT, ruled Patricia Shannon should inherit the 90 acres of land near the town of Twin Bridges. The decision was based on a 1997 letter written by Kuralt to Shannon two weeks before his death and established her rights to the land. His family is still considering an appeal.
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Since Kuralt's death in 1997, his estate has been in litigation after a second woman, Patricia Shannon came forth with the claim that she had been his lover for the past 30 years. She has sued Kuralt's wife & estate to get 90 acres where Kuralt had a fishing cabin and did go frequently "for seclusion". Patricia claims that she has lived there with Kuralt for all of that time.
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He won 11 Emmies
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Kuralt is buried on the campus of his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Opening of Japan's Expo '70
1970
TV Movie documentary
CBS Reports
1965
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Murphy Brown
1993
TV Series
Charles Kuralt
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
American Masters
1990
TV Series documentary
Himself
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979-1989
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host / Himself
The Moon Above, the Earth Below
1989
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Host
The American Parade
1984
TV Series
Himself - Anchor
Juilliard & Beyond: A Life in Music
1982
TV Movie documentary
The Merv Griffin Show
1979
TV Series
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
1977-1979
TV Series
Himself - Journalist / Himself - TV Newsman
Morning
1979
TV Series
Himself - Anchor (1980-1982)
When Television Was Young
1977
TV Movie documentary
Himself (correspondent)
Who's Who
1977
TV Series
Himself - Reporter
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
1968-1975
TV Series
Himself - Correspondent / Himself (segment "On The Road")
Dinah!
1974
TV Series
Himself
CBS Reports
1961-1973
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host / Himself - Correspondent / Narrator / ...
Misunderstanding China
1972
TV Movie documentary
Narrator
The Opening of Japan's Expo '70
1970
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Host
Of Black America
1968
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Reporter
16 in Webster Groves
1966
TV Movie documentary
Narrator
Finlandia
1965
TV Movie
Himself - Host
After Ten Years: The Court and the Schools
1964
TV Movie
Himself - Correspondent
Years of Crisis
1961-1962
TV Series
Himself
The Twentieth Century
1962
TV Series documentary
Reporter
Eyewitness to History
1961
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host
The Revolutionary War
1995-2005
TV Mini-Series documentary
Narrator
An American Moment
1997
TV Series
Himself
Corwin
1996
TV Movie
Himself
Winston Waters: A Philosophy of Flyfishing
1995
Short
Himself - Narrator
Charlie Rose
1995
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
TV Series
Himself
Andy Griffith Show Reunion
1993
TV Special
Himself
American Experience
1993
TV Series documentary
Himself - Narrator
Alistair Cooke Salute
1992
TV Movie
Himself
Remembering Pearl Harbor
1991
TV Movie documentary
Himself (host)
America's Toughest Assignment: Solving the Education Crisis
1990
TV Movie documentary
Himself / Anchor
This Reporter
1990
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Host
Late Night with David Letterman
1985-1990
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1990
TV Series
Himself - Guest
America Tonight
1990
TV Series
Himself - Anchor
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Eighties
2016
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - CBS News
The Seventies
2015
TV Series documentary
Himself - CBS News
The Sixties
2014
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - CBS News
Horowitz in Moscow
1986
TV Movie documentary
CBS New's host (uncredited)
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1994
Career Achievement Award
Television Critics Association Awards
1987
Emmy
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Cultural or Historical Programming - Programs
CBS News Sunday Morning (1979)
1978
ATAS Broadcast Journalism Award
Primetime Emmy Awards
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1962)
1976
Personal Award
Peabody Awards
1969
Personal Award
Peabody Awards
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1997
Grammy
Grammy Awards
Best Spoken Word Album
For the Album "Charles Kuralt's America"
1969
Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Achievement within Regularly Scheduled News