Legendary talk show host Barbara Walters dies, aged 93

FILE PHOTO: Television personality Barbara Walters arrives for the premiere of the film "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" in New York September 20, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Television personality Barbara Walters arrives for the premiere of the film "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" in New York September 20, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on U.S. television as the first female anchor on an evening news broadcast and one of TV's most prominent interviewers, has died at age 93, her long-time ABC home network said on Friday (December 30).

Walters, who created the popular ABC women’s talk show “The View” in 1997, died on Friday at her home in New York, Robert Iger, chief executive of ABC’s corporate parent, the Walt Disney Co., said on Twitter.

In a broadcast career spanning five decades, Walters interviewed an array of world leaders, including Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, Saddam Hussein of Iraq and every U.S. president and first lady since Richard and Pat Nixon.

Walters, who began her journalism career on NBC’s “The Today Show” in the 1960s as a writer and segment producer, earned 12 Emmy awards, 11 of those while at ABC News, according to the network.

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