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At the DTH with Charles Kuralt
Tar Heel Laura Patterson
Charles Kuralt talks with DTH staffers in the editor's office
By SALLY PEARSALL
Editor
and RON CRAWFORD
University Editor
It was business as usual at the
DTH offices last month, until a
celebrity appeared in our midst.
"Hello, I'm Charles Kuralt," he
said, and he certainly was. "Do
you mind if I look around?"
He said he was trying to find
a place to film a segment for a
possible television series, "Try to
Remember," which would focus
on certain significant weeks in
history. For this particular epi
sode, Kuralt had chosen the week
of May 17, 1954 the week of
the U.S. Supreme Court's land
mark desegregation ruling.
And he'd decided to begin the
episode with a personal journey
back to May of 1954, when he was
a 19-year-old undergraduate at the
University and the newly-elected
Daily Tar Heel editor.
Soon his camera crew was
setting up in the editor's office,
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while the rest of us lined up to
get autographs.
Kuralt, a Wilmington native, is
one of the University's favorite
sons. His "On the Road With
Charles Kuralt" series for CBS has
endured since 1967; he specializes
in what Time magazine called
"authentic, uplifting Americana."
He also anchors the "Sunday
Morning" program on CBS.
Kuralt enjoys the unique free
dom his job allows. "CBS just lets
me wander," he said. However, he
said, he always has to be back in
New York on Sundays to do the
live broadcast of "Sunday
Morning."
. As an undergraduate at-UNC,
he was a member of the Golden
Fleece, Old Well and Grail honor
ary societies. But he spent most
of his time working in the Daily
Tar Heel offices, which were
located on the second floor of the
Graham Memorial building.
Kuralt majored in history, but
said his studies came second to his
work at the student newspaper.
"I started dropping courses to
keep up with the work on the Tar
Heel," he said. "I kept dropping
courses until I finally had dropped
them all so I was editor of the
Tar Heel, but I wasn't a student."
The paper was published six
days a week, he said, and was
printed on a flatbed press in
Carrboro. Every photograph had
to be taken to Greensboro to be
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