Renowned ABC News journalist and political commentator Cokie Roberts has died at the age of 75. Roberts was cited as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting and was named a 'Living Legend' by the Library of Congress in 2008.
Roberts won countless awards, including three Emmys, throughout her decades-long career. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting. She was named a"Living Legend" by the Library of Congress in 2008.
She is survived by her husband, fellow journalist Steven Roberts, her children, Lee and Rebecca and her six grandchildren. Before joining ABC News in 1988, Roberts spent more than two decades at outlets including WNEW , KNBC-TV , CBS News and NPR starting in 1978. She was also a correspondent for MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour and a contributing senior news analyst for PBS.
She told the Post that her cancer diagnosis didn’t give her a newfound perspective on life, because she already had one. Roberts came from a political family: she was the daughter of Hale Boggs, the former Democratic House majority leader and representative from New Orleans. Her father was also a member of the Warren commission that investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
In an interview earlier this year, Roberts noted that she was"the only person in my original nuclear family who didn’t run for Congress. Now, they didn’t win all of them – the only one that never lost an election was my mother.""I have always felt semi-guilty about it. But I’ve sort of assuaged my guilt by writing about it and feeling like I’m educating people about the government and how to be good voters and good citizens," she told The Washington Post.
Steve Roberts said in a New York Times interview in 2017 that he was"bowled over" by his wife’s intellect.
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