Charles kuralt life essays

His travelling schedule made absences away from his wife in New York easy to explain. Kuralt was a generous lover. By Ms. Shannon’s estimate he gave her $600,000 during the first decade of their relationship. He was making $6 million a year, so financing two families was not a problem.

And, in Berkeley, California he came across Joseph Charles who made his retirement project waving to passers by in their cars. He talked to a man who had written down the name of every person he had met during his life. “Did you meet anyone famous?” asked Kuralt. The man turned the pages of his book to where he had written “Jesus Christ.”

Famed anchorman Walter Kronkite once said, “I objected to doing the On the Road pieces at first . . . but with the very first piece he did, I was convinced that we better get them on the air.” The series started in a time of turmoil. Protests against the Vietnam War were roiling America.

Litigation followed and eventually Ms. Shannon was granted the land and house. The double life of the man who cheated on his wife seemed so at odds with the people he paid tribute to in his On the Road yarns. They were people of character, virtue, and goodness.