Groundbreaking and glamorous: How 伝説の 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Barbara Walters overcame tumultuous childhood with supper club impresario father to become a TV icon who created The 見解（をとる） during １０年間s-spanning career

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Barbara Walters, pictured in 1999 on the 始める，決める of one of the many shows she co-hosted, 20/20, broke 障壁s for women in TV news

In her more than 50 years on television, Barbara Walters?interviewed everyone from 長，率いるs of 明言する／公表する to Hollywood glitterati and along the way turned into an icon herself, becoming the first woman to co-錨，総合司会者 a nightly news program and co-host many others, winning awards, 令状ing two 調書をとる／予約するs, and creating The 見解（をとる）.?

'She lived her life with no 悔いるs. She was a trailblazer not only for 女性（の） 新聞記者／雑誌記者s, but for all women,' her publicist Cindi Berger said in a 声明 発表するing Walters' death at age 93 on Friday.?

Walters made headlines in 1976 as the first 女性（の） 網状組織 news 錨，総合司会者, with an 前例のない $1 mi llion 年次の salary.?

Throughout her trailblazing, １０年間s-spanning career, Walters went from a 'Today Girl' in the 1960s when women didn't cover hard news to the morning show's first 女性（の） co-host in 1974, for which she would 勝利，勝つ her first Daytime Emmy?the next year.?

In 1976, she was the first woman to co-錨，総合司会者 ABC Evening News, would go on to co-host 20/20, and by 1997, create and co-host The 見解（をとる）, a successful daytime talk show that has been on the 空気／公表する for over 20 years. She 公式に retired in 2014.?

In her more than 50 years on television, she interviewed everyone from 長，率いるs of 明言する／公表する to Hollywood glitterati and along the way turned into an icon herself

Walters was known for her work ethic whose roots trace 支援する to a childhood spent in vario us cities. Her father, Lou Walters, ran the popular club chain Latin ４半期/4分の1, which was たびたび（訪れる）d by the likes of Roy Cohn and?Joseph P Kennedy Sr. He also worked in show 商売／仕事, which lead to a 財政上の highs and lows for the family. Walters' older sister, Jacqueline, had an 知識人 disability, and Walters spent much of her adulthood 供給するing 財政上の support for them.

Married three times and 離婚d, Walters is 生き残るd by her daughter, Jacqueline Danforth.

'I don't think I was very good at marriage. It may be that my career was just too important,' Walters said during an ABC News interview in May 2014 before her 退職.

Walters landed the interviews everyone else 手配中の，お尋ね者, 含むing Monica Lewinsky in 1999. She took world leaders and 独裁者s to 仕事 with hard-hitting questions, and interviewed every US 大統領 from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama.

'I'm different on camera,' Walters told Vogue in a 2008 article. 'I have guts; I have no 疑問s; I have no 恐れる when I'm working.'?

Barbara Jill Walters was born on September 25, 1929 in Boston. Her father, Lou Walters, was 15 when he left London for New York City. Walters later 述べるd him as 'brilliant' and a 'gambler' while her mother, Dena, was 保守的な and liked to stay home.?Lou Walters ran the Latin ４半期/4分の1, a successful club chain that at one point had 場所s in Boston, Miami Beach - たびたび（訪れる）d by the likes of Roy Cohn and Joseph P Kennedy Sr - and New York City. Above, Barbara Walters at her desk at NBC circa 1964

Her parents met in Boston in 1919, and were married for nearly 60 years. Lou Walters was doing financially 井戸／弁護士席 when the couple met but by the time Walters was born, he had 'lost his first fortune,' she wrote in her 2008 memoir, Audition. 'The 財政上の roller coaster of his 商売／仕事 life would have an enormous 衝撃 on me. Throughout my life my father made and lost several fortunes in show 商売／仕事.' Walters' older sister, Jacqueline, had an 知識人 disability, and she spent much of her adulthood 供給するing 財政上の support for them. Above, 遺伝子 Shalit, Walters and Frank McGee in a 宣伝の photo for Today in January 1973

During Walters' childhood, her family moved around and lived in Boston, Miami and New York City, where at one point, they had a 'magnificent penthouse on Central Park West,' によれば her autobiography. Growing up, Walters spent a lot of time at her father's clubs, watching the shows and memorizing the 決まりきった仕事s. While …に出席するing Sarah Lawrence College, she considered dropping out to 追求する 事実上の／代理, but stayed in school, 卒業生（する）ing in 1951 with a degree in English. Above, Walters interviews Cuban leader Fidel Castro at a news 会議／協議会 on May 7, 1975

In 1951, after 卒業生（する）ing, Walters got a 職業 at a CBS (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者's publicity department. Not long after, she met Roy Cohn, who was a 正規の／正選手 at her father's Palm Island Latin ４半期/4分の1, and her first husband, Robert 女／おっせかい屋 ry Katz, in Florida. Walters, who was by then in her 早期に twenties, started dating Katz, whose father ran a company that 製造（する）d children hats. They 結局 got engaged and then married in June 1955. 'The truth is, no 事柄 whom I married in those days, it wouldn't have worked out,' Walters wrote. Above, Walters on the Today 始める，決める on May 5, 1976

After a stint in public relations and at the magazine Redbook,?Walters was 申し込む／申し出d a 一時的な 適切な時期 to 令状 for the Today show in 1961, and she jumped at the chance. 'I realized I was giving up a 安定した 職業 for something that was short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語d, but I loved working in television ? the creativity, the 利益／興味ing people, the whole atmosphere,' she 解任するd in her memoir, Audition. The schedule for Today was not 平易な, with Walters calling the 4:30am start time at the studio 'grueling.' Above, Walters, 権利 in hat, at a Paris fashion show in 1973

After the one 女性（の） writer on the Today staff left to get married, Walters took her place. Technically Walters had first appeared on camera, in a bathing 控訴, on The Morning Show on CBS in 1955. However, her debut at the Today desk was on August 29, 1961 when she was sent to Paris to cover fashion week. Above, Harry Reasoner, left, and Walters, 権利, in a 1976 ABC News photo. Reasoner and Walters co-hosted?ABC Evening News, but they did not have a good working 関係, によれば her memoir?

Walters was a 'Today Girl,' then a reporter, and in 1974, was made co-host. 'A very 満足させるing 肩書を与える after ten years of sitting beside the male host on the morning desk at Today. Ten years. Seems small by today's 基準s, but in 1974 a 打開,' she wrote in her 2008 memoir, Audition. Above, Walters when she was co-host of Today in an undated photo

Walters was also known for her celebrity interviews with 星／主役にするs like Oprah Winfrey, Bradley Cooper, Cher, Michael Jackson and Katharine Hepburn. ビデオ clips show her weightlifting with Arnold Schwarzenegger, playing pool with Eddie Murphy, and fishing with Sandra Bullock. Her in-depth interviews for the Barbara Walters Special started 公表／放送 in 1976, and by 1993, she would be talking to the '10 Most Fascinating People' that year.?

'I was one of the first who did political interviews and celebrities,' Walters told Vanity Fair in 2014. 'And I was 非難するd for it, and now everybody does it. Now, on the morning shows, the first half-hour is news, and the second half-hour they're making souffles, or interviewing a movie 星／主役にする. But when I was doing that, that was unusual.'

Barbara Jill Walters was born on September 25, 1929 in Boston. Her father, Lou, was 15 when he left London for New York City. Walters 述べるd him in the May 2014 interview as 'brilliant' and a 'gambler,' while her mother, Dena, was 保守的な and liked to stay home.

Lou Walters was a 調書をとる／予約するing スパイ／執行官 turned supper club impresario: he ran the Latin ４半期/4分の1, a club chain that had 場所s in Boston, Miami Beach and New York City. (Where the cl ub was once 位置を示すd at Broadway and 48th Street was 指名するd 'Lou Walters Way' in 2006, によれば Walter's 2008 memoir, Audition.)

Her parents met in Boston in 1919, and were married for nearly 60 years, with Walters 公式文書，認めるing in her ABC News interview: 'In those days, people didn't get 離婚d.'

Lou was doing financially 井戸／弁護士席 when the couple met but by the time Walters was born, he had 'lost his first fortune,' she wrote in Audition. 'The 財政上の roller coaster of his 商売／仕事 life would have an enormous 衝撃 on me. Throughout my life my father made and lost several fortunes in show 商売／仕事.'

Her family, 含むing her older sister Jacqueline, moved around a lot, living in Boston, Miami, and New York City, where at one point, they had a 'magnificent penthouse on Central Park West,' によれば her memoir. Growing up, Walters spent a lot of time at her father's clubs, watching the shows and memorizing the 決まりきった仕事s. While …に出席するing Sarah Lawrence College, she considered dropping out to 追求する 事実上の／代理.

'As for me, I was becoming more and more 吸収するd in my 願望（する） to be an actress,' she 解任するd in her 調書をとる／予約する.?

Walters' first marriage to Robert Henry Katz, who worked for his father who 製造（する）d children hats, lasted about three years after tying the knot in June 1955. Walters wrote in her 2008 memoir, Audition, that during the marriage she was 'やめる 哀れな.' She called Katz a 'decent man, but it became clearer every day that we had nothing in ありふれた.' In 1962, she met her second husband, 物陰／風下 Guber, a theatrical 生産者, on a blind date. Walters really liked the 離婚d father of two except for one thing: his profession. Above, Walters and 物陰／風下 Guber at their home in New York City in 1966

By the summer of 1963, Walter and 物陰／風下 Guber were engaged, but 'all the old terrors about marriage returned, but this time I was 決定するd to 打ち勝つ them,' she wrote. She had broken off the 約束／交戦 when 大統領 John F Kennedy was assassinated o n November 22, 1963. 'Television （機の）カム of age that dark day. All entertainment programming was 取り消すd, and for the next four days NBC and the other 網状組織s carried live saturation ニュース報道 of the 国家の 悲劇.' The couple quickly got 支援する together, and on December 8, 1963, she became Mrs. 物陰／風下 Guber at the age of 34. Above, Walters with her daughter?Jacqueline Danforth on January 7, 1990?

Walters 認める in her memoir that her marriage to 物陰／風下 Guber did not get off to a '広大な／多数の／重要な start' and she had the 勧める to 涙／ほころび up the license. Nonetheless, the couple tried to have a child but Walters 苦しむd three miscarriages, and 非難するd herself the first time it happened. 'If I hadn't been working so hard, perhaps I could have continued that pregnancy,' she wrote. 'I was 荒廃させるd.'?In 1968, Walters and Guber, decided to 可決する・採択する a baby girl, 指名するd Jacqueline after Walter's sister. The couple separated in 早期に 1972. Walters, 56, then married?Merv Adelson on May 10, 1986, and the above photo was taken after their 儀式 in Beverly Hills

In 1984, Walters met her third husband like her second: on a blind date. Merv Adelson was one of the 創立者s and owners of Lorimar 生産／産物s, a TV company that had 攻撃する，衝突するs like Dallas, Knots 上陸 and The Waltons. They married in 1986. By the late 1980s, Walters' career is going 井戸／弁護士席, but she was 'treading water' in her marriage to Adelson. Their bicoastal 協定 - Walters lived in New York City, Adelson in Los Angeles - was difficult. By the summer of 1990, they were separated and then 離婚d a few years later. Above, Adelson and Walters at the Met 祝祭 in 1987

Walters' 関係 with her daughter Jacqueline has had its difficulties. 'I love my daughter more than I love anyone in the world, always have, but when she reached adolescence our life together became 極端に difficult ,' she wrote. In 1982, at the age of 14, Jackie, as Walters called her, started hanging out with the Eighty-fourth Street ギャング（団）, and later learned her daughter was taking amphetamines. Then Jackie ran away. After four days, Walters got in touch with her daughter, who had hitchhiked across the country. After getting into a program, Jackie got better, and later on moved to Maine and opened a small 居住の outdoor therapy program for girls, Walters wrote in her 2008 memoir. Above, Walters and Oprah at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on November 1994

にもかかわらず personal problems, Barbara Walters' professional life was filled with accolades. She was the first woman to co-host Today 同様に as the first to co-錨，総合司会者 a nightly news program. When ABC 開始する，打ち上げるd 20/20 in the summer of 1978, Walters 結局 co-hosted with Hugh 負かす／撃墜するs for 15 years, and stayed with the program until 2004. The Barbara Walters Special was a 攻撃する，衝突する when it 首相d in 1976, and continued until 2015. Above, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, left, and Walters on The 見解（をとる） on an episode that 空気／公表するd February 5, 2010

Walters was busy with 20/20 and her specials when The 見解（をとる）, she wrote in her 2008 memoir Audition, こそこそ動くd up on her in 1997. 'My plate was 十分な. I had no room for gravy.' But ABC daytime 網状組織 (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs, which were not (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者d with the news department, （機の）カム to Walters and her longtime 生産者 法案 Geddie and asked if they had an idea for a show to fill a struggling time slot: 11am. Walters did and The 見解（をとる） 首相d on August 11, 1997. It continues to be a success. Above, Walters and George Clooney at a 歓迎会 after the 2012 White House 特派員s' 協会 Dinner

Barbara Walters, above in 1999, co-hosted 20/20 for 25 years. In her memoir, Audition, she said that interviewing?Monica Lewinsky on 20/20 in 1999 was the biggest 'get' of her career

But Walters stayed in school, 卒業生（する）d in 1951 from Sarah Lawrence with a degree in English, and then got a 職業 at a CBS (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者's publicity department. Not long after, she met Roy Cohn, who was a 正規の／正選手 at her father's Palm Island Latin ４半期/4分の1, and her first husband, Robert Henry Katz, in Florida. Walters, who was by then in her 早期に twenties, started dating Katz, whose father ran a company that 製造（する）d?children hats. They 結局 got engaged and then married in June 1955.

'The truth is, no 事柄 whom I married in those days, it wouldn't have worked out,' Walters wrote.?

The marriage lasted about three years, and Walters wrote that during it she was 'やめる 哀れな.' She called Katz a 'decent man, but it became clearer every day that we had nothing in ありふれた,' and they 離婚d.

一方／合間, her father had walked away from the Latin ４半期/4分の1 and in 1957 opened a new club in Miami. The new 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, however, struggled and her father, who was in 負債, 試みる／企てるd 自殺 but 生き残るd, によれば her memoir.

'I had from 早期に childhood felt 責任がある my parents,' she wrote, pondering if their 財政上の troubles 押し進めるd her toward a successful career. 'My insecurity led me to be a workaholic, to eat lunch at my desk, never to 行方不明になる a day of work, to make more and still more phone calls on に代わって of my （弁護士の）依頼人s.'

Walters went on a date with Roy Cohn at the 21 Club, but saw him infrequently afterward. B ut when her father was 逮捕（する）d in the 落ちる of 1960, she wrote, Cohn somehow had taken care of it, and Walters was to become his 'loyal friend.' Her father, Lou, who was now living in Las Vegas, had failed to appear in 法廷，裁判所 for his 税金 事例／患者 and a 令状 had been 問題／発行するd.

After a stint in public relations and at the magazine Redbook, in 1961, Walters was 申し込む／申し出d a 一時的な 適切な時期 to 令状 for the Today show, and she jumped at the chance.

'I realized I was giving up a 安定した 職業 for something that was short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語d, but I loved working in television ? the creativity, the 利益／興味ing people, the whole atmosphere,' she 解任するd in her memoir.

The schedule for Today was not 平易な, with Walters calling the 4:30am start time at the studio 'grueling.' Nonetheless, after the one 女性（の） writer on staff left to get married, Walters took her place.

Technically Walters had first appeared on camera, in a bathing 控訴, she 公式文書，認めるd in her 調書をとる／予約する, on The Morning Show on CBS ? the 網状組織's answer to the Today show ? in 1955. However, her debut at the Today desk was on August 29, 1961 when she was sent to Paris to cover fashion week. She had 'then-流行の／上流の short-with-bangs Audrey Hepburn haircut.

'I loved doing my little segment on the 空気／公表する. But it never occurred to me that I would ever have a 正規の／正選手 on-空気／公表する 役割 myself.'

Barbara Walters was known for her work ethic. 'I had from 早期に childhood felt 責任がある my parents,' she wrote in Audition, pondering if their 財政上の troubles 押し進めるd her toward a successful career. 'My insecurity led me to be a workaholic, to eat lunch at my desk, never to 行方不明になる a day of work, to make more and still more phone calls on に代わって of my （弁護士の）依頼人s.' Above, Walters, 会談 on the phone while in bed at her New York City apartment in 1966

Walters started out on Today in a short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 writer position in 1961 and then became 十分な time after the one 女性（の） writer on the show left. She was then a 'Today Girl,' and 結局 a reporter in 落ちる 1964.?She interviewed 物陰／風下 Radziwill, Judy Garland, Truman Capote 同様に as Lady Bird Johnson and Rose Kennedy, which Walters wrote in her memoir was one of her favorite interviews. Above, Hugh 負かす／撃墜するs, left, sits next to Walters on Today in 1966. 負かす／撃墜するs and Walters had a 広大な／多数の／重要な working 関係 and would team up a 伸び（る） for 20/20. Hugh 負かす／撃墜するs died on July 1, 2020 at the age of 99

By the end of the 1960s, Walters was chasing serious political interviews, like Dean Rusk, who was 長官 of 明言する／公表する under JFK, and Lyndon B Johnson. A the tail end of 1970, she interviewed Henry Kissinger on Today. She also wrot e her first 調書をとる／予約する, How to Talk with 事実上 Anybody About 事実上 Anything. By February 1972, Walters was selected to cover Richard Nixon's historic visit to 中国. She is seen above covering Nixon's first 大統領の 就任（式）／開始 on January 20, 1969

Walters 追求するd interviews relentlessly and she wrote about how it took two years and countless letters to get an interview with Cuban leader Fidel Castro. She went to Cuba in May 1977, and the 革命の took a 向こうずね to Walters, making her a melted cheese 挟む at 2am, によれば her memoir. 'Fidel Castro Speaks' 空気／公表するd on June 9, 1977, and Walters 公式文書，認めるd that it 示すd a 'turning point in my career.' Above, she is with Castro as they cross the Bay of Pigs during the filming of the special

The next year, 1962, she was covering First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's trip to India, and tried but failed to get an interview with her. But Walters did 行き詰まり，妨げる her first 長，率いる-of-明言する／公表する interview with Pakistan 大統領 Ayub 旅宿泊所. Hugh 負かす／撃墜するs, a game show host, became Today's 錨，総合司会者. (The pair would have a 広大な／多数の／重要な working 関係 for １０年間s, first on Today and then on 20/20.)

It was also the year she met her second husband, 物陰／風下 Guber, a theatrical 生産者, on a blind date. Walters really liked the 離婚d father of two except for one thing: his profession. 'After my experiences with my father, I had sworn to myself that I would never get 伴う／関わるd with anyone in show 商売／仕事,' she wrote.

By the summer of 1963, the couple were engaged, but 'all the old terrors about marriage returned, but this time I was 決定するd to 打ち勝つ them,' she wrote.

She had broken off the 約束／交戦 when 大統領 John F Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. 'Television （機の）カム of age that dark day. All entertainment programming was 取り消すd, and for the next four days NBC and the other 網状組織s carried live saturation ニュース報道 of the 国家の 悲劇.'

The couple quickly got 支援する together, and on December 8, 1963, she became Mrs. 物陰／風下 Guber at the age of 34.

Walters 認める in her memoir that the marriage did not get off to a '広大な／多数の／重要な start' and she had the 勧める to 涙／ほころび up the marriage license. Nonetheless, the couple tried to have a child but Walters 苦しむd three miscarriages and 非難するd herself the first time it happened. 'If I hadn't been working so hard, perhaps I could have continued that pregnancy,' she wrote. 'I was 荒廃させるd.'

一方／合間, at the show, one of the 'Today Girls' やめる and 負かす／撃墜するs 示唆するd Walters for the 職業, but the NBC bosses said she wasn't 'known' or 'beautiful.' But she was cheap, Walters 公式文書，認めるd in her 調書をとる／予約する, and she became a 'Today Girl,' and, 結局 a reporter in October 1964. She interviewed 物陰／風下 Radziwill, Judy Garland, Truman Capote 同様に as Lady Bird Johnson and Rose Kennedy, which Walters wrote was one of her favorite interviews.

By 1968, Walters and her husband, 物陰／風下 Guber, decided to 可決する・採択する a baby. On the 'unforgettable day' she brought her baby girl, 指名するd Jacqueline after Walter's sister, home, she wrote: 'Even as I 令状 this, I get 涙／ほころびs in my 注目する，もくろむs. I cannot 適切に 表明する my joy as I welcomed this tiny pink bundle.'

Walters told her daughter she was 可決する・採択するd, 説 Jacqueline was born in her heart.?

By the end of １０年間, Walters was 追求するing serious political interviews, like Dean Rusk, who was 長官 of 明言する／公表する under JFK and Lyndon B Johnson. At the tail end of 1970, she interviewed Henry Kissinger on Today. She also wrote her first 調書をとる／予約する, How to Talk with 事実上 Anybody About 事実上 Anything.??

Hugh 負かす／撃墜するs left Today in the 落ちる of 1971 but Walters, who had been on the morning desk for seven years at that point, wasn't considered to 取って代わる him. The new host, Frank McGee, 手配中の，お尋ね者 Walters to do only the 'girlie' interviews, but she fought against it. The 妥協 was that McGee would ask the first three questions, and then Walters could ask the fourth.?

She decided to go after her own interviews. 'And tha t's when I got the 評判 of 存在 ambitious and 積極的な in 追跡 of interviews, the 'pushy cookie.''

Barbara Walters published her autobiography, Audition, in 2008, that 詳細（に述べる）d her long and successful career as 井戸／弁護士席 as her personal life. During her second marriage to 物陰／風下 Guber, Walters had three miscarriages. The couple decided to 可決する・採択する a baby girl, which they 指名するd?Jacqueline, after Walters' older sister. There were some difficult times when Jackie, as Walters called her, was a teen, 含むing running away. Above, a photo of Jacqueline Danforth and Walters from the 2008 ABC News Special about Walters' memoir and life

While Walters interviewed many 長，率いるs of 明言する／公表する - 含むing the first-ever 共同の interview with Egyptian 大統領，／社長 Anwar el-Sadat and with Israeli 総理大臣 Menachem Begin on November 20, 1977 - 独裁者s, and every US 大統領 from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, she was also known for her celebrity interviews. Above, tennis legend Billie ジーンズ King, left, and Walters. She interviewed King and her then husband Lawrence for 20/20 in 1981

Walters interviewed many celebrities, which 含むd Oprah Winfrey, Bradley Cooper, Cher, Michael Jackson and Katharine Hepburn. ビデオ clips show her playing pool with Eddie Murphy and fishing with Sandra Bullock. Her in-depth interviews for the Barbara Walters Special started 公表／放送 in 1976, and by 1993, she would be talking to the '10 Most Fascinating People' that year. Above, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Walters for a special that 空気／公表するd in 1990

In her 2008 memoir, Audition, Walters wrote that she 'knew and liked Martha. I had decorated cookies with her for one of my 'Specials'... We became more of いっそう少なく friendly.' When Martha Stewart, left, was 起訴するd for 安全 詐欺 and 妨害するing 司法（官） in 2003, Walters asked for an interview and got it. Stewart was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd and served five months in 連邦の 刑務所，拘置所 in 2004, and today has several successful 事業／計画（する）s. Above, Stewart and Walters at an event in New York City on April 6, 2016

一方／合間, in her personal life, her marriage to 物陰／風下 Guber was 崩壊するing.

'So that was the best of times. 利益／興味ing, 挑発的な interviews. My 評判 growing. But all the while, my marriage was 落ちるing apart. This is, even today, 極端に difficult to 令状 about because there was no 危機, no 乱用, no 非難する. This was 簡単に, also, the worst of times.'?

By February 1972, when Walters, now 42, was selected to cover 大統領 Richard Nixon's historic visit to 中国, the couple had decided to separate. Two years later, in 1974, after Frank McGee died, NBC finally made Walters the co-host of Today - the only TV 網状組織 news show at that time to have a 女性（の） co-host.?

'A very 満足させるing 肩書を与える after ten years of sitting beside the male host on the morning desk at Today. Ten years. Seems small by today's 基準s, but in 1974 a 打開. The 肩書を与える did not translate to anything else,' she wrote.

Walters did not get a raise, a bigger office or more say over the morning program, but she did 伸び（る） マスコミ attention, which led to a bidding war over her talent. ABC 手配中の，お尋ね者 h er to switch 網状組織s to co-host the ABC Evening News with Harry Reasoner 同様に as do four one-hour specials.

'It was the historic 申し込む／申し出 to become the first 女性（の） co-錨，総合司会者 of a 網状組織 news program,' she wrote. 'A woman doing the 網状組織 news was unheard of and certainly not something that I ever considered. The prestigious position had always been a male bastion, and the 勝つ／広く一帯に広がるing thought was that 配達するing the news about politics, wars, and natural 災害s would not be taken 本気で if done by a woman.'

After many years at NBC, Walters 最初 拒絶する／低下するd ABC's 申し込む／申し出. But 結局, after a マスコミ frenzy 続いて起こるd, she agreed to the 取引，協定, which 含むd the then unheard sum of $1 million 毎年 for a five-year 契約.

In 1976, Walters became the first woman co-host a nightly news program, but things were not going 井戸／弁護士席 with Harry Reasoner. It was also the year that comedian Gilda Radner introduced her Baba Wawa character ? her parody of Walters - on Saturday Night Live.

'I 設立する it 極端に upsetting,' she wrote in Audition. 'People started calling me Baba Wawa behind my 支援する, and even to my 直面する.'

But 結局 she lightened up about the impression.?

While there was 緊張 on the evening news program, the first Barbara Walters Special, which featured Barbra Streisand and 大統領-elect Jimmy Carter, 'was a runaway 粉砕する 攻撃する，衝突する,' and would continue until 2015. The '10 Most Fascinating People' specials started in 1993.

Walters 追求するd interviews relentlessly, and she wrote how it two years and countless letters to get an interview with Cuban leader Fidel Castro. She went to Cuba in May 1977, and the 革命の took a 向こうずね to Walters, making her a melted cheese 挟む at 2am. 'Fidel Castro Speaks' 空気／公表するd on June 9, 1977, and Walters 公式文書，認めるd that it 示すd a 'turning point in my career.'

Walters pretty much interviewed everyone of 公式文書，認める moving 今後, 含むing the first-ever 共同の interview with Egyptian 大統領，／社長 Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli 総理大臣 Menachem Begin on November 20, 1977. The next year, in the summer of 1978, ABC started a newsmagazine program called 20/20, which Walters 結局 co-hosted with Hugh 負かす／撃墜するs for 15 years, and continued to co-host after his 出発 until 2004.

Walters knew Donald Trump's former lawyer, Roy Cohn, who was a 正規の／正選手 at Walters' father club the?Palm Island Latin ４半期/4分の1 in Florida. In her 2008 memoir,?Walters went on a date with Cohn at the 21 Club, but saw him infrequently afterwards. But when her father was 逮捕（する）d in the 落ちる of 1960, Cohn somehow got it taken care of, and Walters was to become his 'loyal friend.' It is 不明瞭な if she met Trump through Cohn, but Walters did interview him in 1990 on 20/20, and also …に出席するd his 2005 wedding to his third wife, Melania. Above, Walters interviewing Trump, then running for 大統領，／社長, for her 年次の '10 Most Fascinating People' special in 2015

Walters landed the interviews everyone else 手配中の，お尋ね者. She took world leaders and 独裁者s to 仕事 with hard-hitting questions, and interviewed every US 大統領 from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. 'I'm different on camera,' Walters told Vogue in a 2008 article. 'I have guts; I have no 疑問s; I have no 恐れる when I'm working.' Above, Walters interviews 上院議員 Bernie やすりを削る人／削る機械s for her '10 Most Fascinating People' special in 2015

After her 離婚 from her second husband, Walters, in her 早期に forties, wrote that she was experiencing what she had never really known before ? 'fun and romances.' She had a 'long and rocky 事件／事情／状勢' with then Massachusetts 上院議員 Edward W Brooke, 時代遅れの Alan Greenspan and John Warner, also a 上院議員, who at one point was married to Elizabeth Taylor, によれば her memoir.

In 1984, Walters met her third husband like her second: on a blind date. Merv Adelson was one of the 創立者s and owners of Lorimar 生産／産物s, a TV company that had 攻撃する，衝突するs like Dallas, Knots 上陸 and The Waltons, she wrote. 'We began to see each other a lot over the summer, and I realized I was 落ちるing in love.'

The pair were engaged in the next year, but Walters 延期するd it t wice. Walters had experienced by then the loss of father in 1977, her sister Jacqueline in 1985, and her mother, Dena, was in poor health. Merv Adelson and Walters tied the knot on May 10, 1986. Her mother died two years later.

While professionally Walters was winning Emmys and accolades for her work, her daughter Jacqueline had troubles as a teen. 'I love my daughter more than I love anyone in the world, always have, but when she reached adolescence our life together became 極端に difficult.'

In 1982, at the age of 14, Jackie, as Walters called her, started hanging out with the Eighty-fourth Street ギャング（団）, and later learned her daughter was taking amphetamines. And then Jackie ran away, によれば her memoir. 'Days went by with no word… I was going crazy.'

After four days, Walters got in touch with her daughter, who had hitchhiked across the country. After getting into a program, Jackie got better, and moved to Maine and opened a small 居住の outdoor therapy program for girls, Walters wrote.

By the late 1980s, Walters' career is going 井戸／弁護士席 and things with her daughter have 静めるd 負かす／撃墜する, but she was 'treading water' in her marriage to Merv Adelson. Their bicoastal 協定 - Walters lived in New York City, Adelson in Los Angeles - was difficult by the summer of 1990, they were separated, and then 離婚d a few years later.

Walters was busy with 20/20 and her specials when The 見解（をとる）, she wrote, snuck up on her in 1997. 'My plate was 十分な. I had no room for gravy.'

But ABC daytime 網状組織 (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs, which were not (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者d with the news department, （機の）カム to Walters and her longtime 生産者 法案 Geddie, asking if they had an idea for a show to fill a struggling time slot: 11am. Walters did. She said: 'I've always 手配中の，お尋ね者 to do a show with women of different 世代s, backgrounds, and 見解（をとる）s.'

Walters wrote that she had two inspirations: This Week with David Brinkley, and Virginia Graham's Girl Talk, a daytime program that run during the 1960s. 'So I wondered, if we took a small and 変化させるd group of women and made them a 永久の cast, would that work for an informative and entertaining hour?'

While the 網状組織 wasn't over the moon about the idea, they did （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 a 操縦する. Walters said that the 重要な was to find 'the 権利 women with the 権利 chemistry.' The four women who were the 初めの cast - Meredith Vieira, 星／主役にする Jones, Joy Behar and Debbie Matenopoulos - were on the first パネル盤 that auditioned, によれば the memoir. The 指名する was also 縮めるd from The 見解（をとる） From Here, which was 存在 used by a Canadian program.

Geddie worked out the show's 判型 with Walters and was 指名するd the show's co-(n)役員／(a)執行力のある 生産者. Walters called him 不可欠の, によれば her memoir.

The 見解（をとる） 首相d on August 11, 1997 and continues to be a success.????

In her interview with ABC News in May 2014, Walters said: 'I want to be remembered by my daughter as a good and loving mother. I want to be remembered by my friends as somebody who was loyal. I want to be remembered in television maybe as a creator, maybe as a good newswoman.'

Barbara Walters, above in April 2016, had a groundbreaking career in television journalism. She started out in a short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 writer position for Today in 1961 and worked her way up to co-host in 1974, winning a Daytime Emmy the next year. In 1976, she became the first woman to co-錨，総合司会者 a nightly news program, and her Barbara Walters Specials 首相d that year and became a 攻撃する，衝突する. She co-hosted 20/20 for 25 years, and helped to create The 見解（をとる）, which 開始する，打ち上げるd in 1997 and is still a success. Walters died at the age of 92