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Kuralt entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1951, majored in history, edited the Daily Tar Heel, and worked for WUNC radio and for WCHL in Chapel Hill. He completed his studies in 1955 and went on to a career at CBS News.
Source: UNC Libraries finding aid: Charles Kuralt Collection, 1935-1997
1934–1997 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
15 works about Charles Kuralt are indexed here, as are 3 works by Kuralt.
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Charles Kuralt's biography of Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972), president of the University of North Carolina and later a United States senator, published in 1993 by Franklin Street Books. It concerns college presidents, educators and statesmen of North Carolina, and the Senate. Kuralt, himself a North Carolina author, gives the book the subtitle life with Frank Porter Graham.
Charles Kuralt's 1998 calendar of American places, issued in 1997 by Price Stern Sloan with twenty-six unnumbered pages of color photographs. April belongs to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the other months follow Kuralt's travels across the United States.
Charles Kuralt (1934-1997) delivered this commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on 12 May 1985. The text runs to five leaves and comes with a copy of the article in the Chapel Hill News of 14 May 1985 that printed the speech in full. Topics include baccalaureate addresses and the commencement of 1985. Part of the North Carolina Collection.
An eleven minute videocassette carrying Charles Kuralt's television piece on Pauli Murray, drawn from his On the Road series and dated 2002. It concerns African American biography, the Episcopal Church and the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill. Kuralt lived from 1934 to 1997.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997.
Charles Kuralt, Woody Durham and Mick Mixon in a broadcast booth during a sporting event in 1996, probably in Chapel Hill. Color 35 mm negative by Hugh Morton.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997.
Broadcasters Woody Durham, Charles Kuralt and Mick Mixon, left to right, sit together in a booth at an unidentified 1996 sporting event, probably in Chapel Hill. Hugh Morton took the 35 mm color negative. Durham was the longtime radio voice of UNC football and basketball.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997.
On stage at the UNC at Chapel Hill bicentennial ceremonies in Kenan Stadium, 12 October 1993: Governor Jim Hunt, university system president C. D. Spangler, Provost Dick Richardson and Charles Kuralt, among others. Black-and-white negative by Hugh Morton.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997.
Dignitaries seated at the 200th anniversary celebration of UNC at Chapel Hill on 12 October 1993, among them Charles Kuralt, university president C. D. Spangler and Governor Jim Hunt. Hugh Morton took the black-and-white negative in Kenan Memorial Stadium.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997.
Color slide by Hugh Morton from the bicentennial ceremonies in Kenan Stadium on 12 October 1993. Charles Kuralt and Terry Sanford are in the second row, with UNC President C. D. Spangler and Governor Jim Hunt in the front.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997.
Hugh Morton photographed C. D. Spangler from behind as he spoke at his inauguration as president of the University of North Carolina system on 17 October 1986, held in front of South Building in Chapel Hill. Governor Jim Martin, Charles Kuralt and Bill Friday sit on the stage.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997.
Hugh Morton photographed C. D. Spangler giving his inaugural address as president of the University of North Carolina in front of South Building in Chapel Hill on 17 October 1986. Among those seated behind him are Charles Kuralt, Governor Jim Martin and William Friday, Spangler's predecessor. Color 120 roll film negative.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997.
Papers of Walter Spearman, a teacher of journalism at Chapel Hill, spanning 1900 to 1986 in 2,400 items and 3.5 linear feet, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4484. Topics include journalism education in North Carolina, American authors of the state, and named writers Spearman knew or taught, among them Charles Kuralt, Paul Green, Jonathan Daniels and Gail Godwin.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997.
Charles Kuralt, the CBS News correspondent and University of North Carolina alumnus, is the subject of this Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file. It gathers newspaper clippings and photocopied press stories, magazine articles and copies of them, and a report with notes. Individuals and Families series, box 5, undated.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
Charles Kuralt, the CBS News correspondent and former editor of the Daily Tar Heel, in two undated photographs, one at a desk and one a portrait.
Included because: Its title names this person.
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
Charles Kuralt collected the best of his pieces from 'On the Road', his segments for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and from 'Crossroads' and 'American Parade': sketches of American places, people and customs. Putnam published the book in 1985, 316 pages with illustrations. The On the Road segments had earned Kuralt two personal Peabody Awards.
Steven J. Tepper's chronicle of how the University of North Carolina marked its bicentennial in 1993 and 1994. An appendix reprints the University Day speeches of October 12, 1993, given by Paul Hardin, James B. Hunt Jr., C.D. Spangler, William C. Friday, Charles Kuralt and President Bill Clinton, plus bicentennial addresses by Li Lu, Francis S. Collins and Richard J. Richardson. Published by the university in Chapel Hill, 1998; 284 pages.
Charles Kuralt's words and Loonis McGlohon's music from their album of the same name, made at Governor Jim Hunt's suggestion to mark the 400th anniversary of the Roanoke Island colony and released in 1984. Kuralt's narration and lyrics appear with printed music and about 75 photographs, eleven by Hugh Morton. Edited by Patty Davis and published by East Woods Press of Charlotte in 1986, 103 pages; Globe Pequot reprinted it in 1987 and issued a commemorative edition in 1998.
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Picture: Charles Kuralt, 1976. Public domain. Photograph by CBS Photo Division; www.worthpoint.com; via Wikimedia Commons
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