MIAMI — Television journalist Barbara Walters was a member of the Miami Beach Senior High Class of 1947 before she made a number of subsequent Beach High stars and other famous people cry on camera.
Walters, the pioneering journalist who, in America’s bicentennial year 1976 made history as the first female news anchor with a $1 million salary, died last week at 93.
Much has been written about Walters’ storied career, the major world figures she interviewed from Fidel Castro to Richard Nixon, and the celebrities she made cry — from Oprah Winfrey to Ringo Starr — with her pointed questions.
