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SUMMARY:
Charles Kuralt is best known for his critically acclaimed series of "On The Road" television "essays" on America and for his fifteen year tenure as host of the equally acclaimed CBS Sunday Morning series on CBS television. Through a CBS network career spanning thirty-seven years, this award winning journalist and author has brought the life and vitality of back roads America to an eager audience while providing a television home for the arts, the environment and the offbeat.
Anything from unusual hobbyists to unusual families to the simple pleasures of unknown places was considered worthy of Kuralt's attention, and part of "On the Road"'s appeal may also have been that Kuralt was never known to have set a specific itinerary for himself. No matter whatever else he did for CBS — hosting CBS News Sunday Morning program from 1979 to 1994, contributing to other CBS News projects — "On the Road" became Kuralt's legacy. His features often captured the beauty of the American countryside, sometimes using images and sounds with no voice-overs to effectively capture the scene.
VIDEO: Tom Sawyer Days In Hannibal (From On The Road series)
REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, CREDITS:
- Charles Kuralt on Charlie Rose July 7, 1997 (VIDEO Interview)
- Charles Kuralt on Charlie Rose September 6, 1993 (VIDEO Interview)
- CNN, "Charles Kuralt, CBS's Poet of Small-Town America, Dies at 62 (CNN obituary)
- According to Thom Steinbeck, the older son of John Steinbeck, the inspiration for "On the Road" was the success of Steinbeck's Travels with Charley (whose title was initially considered as the name of Kuralt's feature). John Steinbeck and Kuralt were said to be good friends.
- Hunter S Thompson reads a letter that he wrote to Charles Kuralt
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