Barbara Walters has died.

[RandySF]

Breaking on my phone.

[Ohio Joe]

1. RIP

[hlthe2b]

2. She had very advanced dementia--Alzheimers, I think.

RIP, Barbara

[Takket]

3. bawbwa wawa

She was a giant! RIP

[FalloutShelter]

6. A legend.

Crashed the glass ceiling.
R.I.P.
Bawbwa Wawa

[nightwing1240]

4. Wow, she was a great one

RIP

[True Dough]

5. She turned 93 in September

That's a pretty long life, and she did great things.

RIP

[PCIntern]

7. You are almost not going to believe this,

I lived in a house that was formerly owned by one of the three partners who owned the Valley Forge music Fair outside of Philadelphia, and Barbara’s husband, to whom she was married for a reasonably short time, but had a child by, was one of the partners, and she had multiple Passover Seders in what was to become my home.

No, I don’t believe that everything is about me, but I was always amazed by that fact.

[Lemonwurst]

9. Cool story, thanks

Sometimes our lives intersect slightly with those who are influential, for any reason, and it reminds us that we are really all connected.

[MontanaMama]

16. I love that.

Small world. Thanks for telling us.

[BOSSHOG]

19. Nice story PCIntern

Barbara Walters was a classic fact seeker.

Off topic. I got a Mike Schmidt 1980 World Series Championship Ring for Christmas. It might be the original. We’re still checking

We are living in the former home of the grandparents of the best Doctor in town. Love ya Philly.

[tavernier]

20. Her daughter was adopted

but I think that still qualifies as “had a child by”…

[PCIntern]

32. Yes, you're right...

My error. Ms Walters would say “I had a seven year-old at that time when I moved to…” and I got distracted. I recall the profile on her daughter some years ago.

[malaise]

33. Very cool

Babs broke the glass ceiling

[jimlup]

8. RIP Barbara

She was such a morning mainstay back in the day. I remember growing up and just assuming she would always be on the Today Show. Time passes...

[BigmanPigman]

10. I have a feeling a lot of people will die soon.

So many of the people I admire and end up Googling are in their mid- to late 80s. A lot!!!

[AngryOldDem]

27. I know.

Been thinking that a lot myself, lately.

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls…

[beaglelover]

11. This loss makes me very sad.

She was such a trailblazer in her industry. They showed her final day on the view, and all these women from all the other news networks made an appearance to thank her. It was very emotional.

[Raine]

12. Sad news ... 🕯️

R-I-P Barbara Walters

[nolabear]

13. Every woman in broadcast journalism stands on her shoulders.

A giant. A leader. A pioneer. May she be remembered.

[calimary]

18. Yes. We did, and we have!

She was a BIG inspiration to me when I was getting started. Massive!

[Talitha]

14. RIP, Barbara...

[Meowmee]

15. Sad

[Upthevibe]

17. RandySF..........

She was THE trailblazer for woman in journalism.

It seems she lived a very fulfilling life....R.I.P., Ms. Walters...

[tishaLA]

21. Such a legend

I know it became fashionable to make fun of her because her later career was stuff like The View and celebrity interviews, but she also spent a good part of her career as a pretty serious newswoman and chased down "gets" with amazing tenacity. Apparently she and Diane Sawyer, even in Ms Walters' later years, constantly competed with each other to get the high profile exclusives.

Not to mention she had her own production company and was the first woman in journalism to really do that--and she made a ton of money from it.

I also hate that it happens so close to NYE because Cheri Oteri always did a great Barbara Walters bit on CNN's NYE show, especially a couple years ago.

[iloveObama12]

22. A Legend

Rest In Peace Barbara Walters

[a kennedy]

23. Damn. Sometimes really annoying but, a trailblazer for women in news......

RIP Barbara.

[DemocraticPatriot]

24. A sad moment.

A great loss.

[EnergizedLib]

25. R.I.P.

I remember watching her and Hugh Downs on 20/20 when I was real small.

[Stinky The Clown]

26. She paved the way for women in broadcast journalism specifically and all women in general

Thank you good lady for all you gave our society.

[Bucky]

28. She was a pioneer

[AngryOldDem]

29. Safe passage to her...

My first memories of her is the Today show along with Hugh Downs.

A true trailblazer.

[roamer65]

30. Baba Wawa.

RIP, Barbara.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. May she rest in peace

Link to tweet

[Behind the Aegis]

34. Barbara Walters, groundbreaking Jewish TV host, dies at 93

Barbara Walters, the iconic newswoman and celebrity interviewer who made history for women and Jewish anchors on mainstream American news television, died at 93 on Friday.

ABC News, where Walters regularly appeared on shows such as “20/20” and “The View,” shared the news without giving a cause of death.

Before becoming one of the most enduring and talked about news hosts in the world from the 1970s through the 2000s, Walters was raised by parents descended from Jewish immigrants who fled antisemitism in Eastern Europe. Her father Lou founded a chain of nightclubs and moved the family from Boston to Miami to New York, gaining and losing fortunes along the way.

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Walters also scored the first joint interview with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, before they finished negotiating a historic peace agreement in 1979. In 1977, she had also interviewed Sadat on his flight to meet with Begin in Israel.

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