Walters broke the glass celling by becoming the first woman to co-host a network news show. She was 93.
Walters Barbara is shown on NBC's Today show on June 3, 1976.. She got her on-air break when she was asked to fill in for Mia Farrow’s mother, Maureen O’Sullivan, until a permanent replacement could be found. Walters said she never expected to be in front of the camera, but even so, it took nine years before she was made a co-host onto accept a $1-million annual contract with ABC, at the time a record for a news personality.is 24 years old.
Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, center right, responds to a question from Barbara Walters at a news conference on May 7, 1975. Walters was also the first American journalist to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, and had the first interview with President Bush following the Sept. 11 attacks. And her 1999 interview with Monica Lewinsky was, at the time, the highest-rated news program ever broadcast by a network.where everyone from Barrack Obama and Donald Trump to celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Whitney Houston, and Oprah Winfrey sat down for interviews.
Walters was known as a"tough cookie" and extremely competitive by her peers. But her personal-yet-probing interviewing style put her subjects at ease, causing them to cry and reveal intimate details about their lives. Angelina Jolie told her in 2004 that adopting Maddox, a Cambodian boy, had given her life purpose, while also revealing that she missed having sex.
Walters was married four times — twice to the same man, Merv Adelson, founder of Lorimar Televison. They divorced in 1992. Then in 2010, at the age of 80, she successfully underwentShe is survived by her daughter, Jackie Danforth, who ran a therapeutic wilderness camp in Maine that treated adolescents girls in crisis.
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