Barbara Walters Research Paper

Barbara Jill Walters was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 25 of 1929 to her parents Lou and Dena Walters. She was the middle of three children, with an older sister and a younger brother. Her younger brother Burton died before Barbara was even born, and her older sister Jaqueline was born with mental disabilities and passed in 1985. Though they didn’t really practice, Barbara grew up in a Jewish household. Her father was a broadway producer and the entertainment director of the Tropicana Resort and Casino. Because of her dad’s entrepreneurial adventures, she went to many different school along the east coast, but ended up graduating high school in New York City in 1947. She went to college in Bronxville, New York at Sarah
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Three years later they divorced, but they then remarried in 1986 only to get divorced for a second time in 1992. Though she never married again, she’s been linked to some high profile lawyers and executives since her last divorce. She’s also become very open about the affairs she had during her marriage.
Because of her status on television, Barbara Walters was never allowed to express her exact political views. By the views she has expressed, though, she leans towards having more republican standards. She has interviewed many political figures and remained neutral through every interview while still asking hard hitting and thought provoking questions. She occasionally had light hearted questions, when talking about their families or pets.
Barbara paved the way for not only other female reporters and TV journalists but writers and researchers too. She was the first ever female news anchor, and also the first of her kind to make $1 million salary per year. Today, it seems that there are more female journalists, because
Barbara helped break through to the industry and show that it wasn’t only men who could do great things.
Some of her greatest interviews include:
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