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Kuralt, Charles (Bishop) 1934-1997

PERSONAL: Born September 10, 1934, in Wilmington, NC; died of complications of lupus, July 4, 1997, in New York, NY; son of Wallace Hamilton (a social worker) and Ina (a teacher; maiden name, Bishop) Kuralt; married Sory Guthery, 1957 (divorced); married Suzanna Folsom Baird, June 1, 1962; children: (first marriage) Lisa Catherine, Susan Guthery. Education: University of North Carolina, B.A., 1955.

CAREER: Charlotte News, Charlotte, NC, reporter and columnist, 1955-57; Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (CBS) News, New York, NY, writer, 1957-59, host of Eyewitness to History, 1959, correspondent for Latin American bureau, 1960-63, chief correspondent for U.S. West Coast, 1963, overseas correspondent until 1967, feature reporter for "On the Road" segments, broadcast on CBS Evening News 1967-80, anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, 1979-94. Also hosted weekly television show Mornings with Charles Kuralt, 1980-81; anchor of America Tonight, 1992; WELY-AM-FM, Ely, MN, owner, 1995; host, syndicated show American Moment and CBS-TV ca

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If you are reading these words, odds are that you know the name Charles Kuralt. Perhaps you were a fan of his books or his television shows, which spanned four decades on CBS. Maybe you were mesmerized by his rich, mahogany voice or his uncanny ability to weave stories from what others in his profession had failed to notice.

If you don’t know the name Charles Kuralt, stick around; you’re in for a treat. Seldom has the world seen such a “wandering minstrel,” who in 1996 was inducted into the Television Academy’s Hall of Fame “for his unwavering quest for the positive, the optimistic, and the essential goodness of humanity, and for his sincerity and warmth in creating pockets of serenity and sanity in a jumbled and maddening world.”

Throughout his career, Kuralt’s words were reassuring; his presence, comforting. He saw the best of who we were. It seemed at the time he was reporting that the country was unraveling at its seams. The United States had narrowly avoided conflict with Russia during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

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By Ralph Grizzle

I will remember Independence Day 1997, not for its glorious displays of fireworks or for its patriotic celebrations in city squares, but as the day that Charles Kuralt died. His death affected me so profoundly that he occupied my mind even as my family and I sat watching fireworks burst streaks of color over . In fact, from that day on, I have devoted much of my own life to researching and writing about his.

In subsequent months, the at commissioned me to conduct a series of oral histories with Kuralt's friends, family and colleagues. Sixty of my interviews now accompany the vast Charles Kuralt Collection, a historical archive of nearly 60,000 letters, scripts, memos and other memorabilia that Kuralt gave to the university for safekeeping.

As I talked with people whose lives had intersected with Kuralt's, I heard time and again that Charles was just what you saw on television - genuine, sincere, sweet, caring, "a national hero," the "poet of America's back roads."

But two months into my interviews an old friend of Ku