Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters is an American broadcast journalist, author and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows Today and The View, the television news magazine 2020 and coanchored the ABC Evening News. Despite retirement as a fulltime host and contributor, she has continued to occasionally report for ABC News.

Barbara Walters was born in 1929 in Boston to Dena and Louis Lou Walters . Her parents were both Jewish, and descendants of refugees from the former Russian Empire. Walters paternal grandfather, Isaac Abrahams, was born in d, Poland, and emigrated to the United Kingdom, changing his name to Abraham Walters . Walters father, Lou, was born in London c. 1896 and moved to New York with his father and two brothers, arriving August 28, 1909. His mother and four sisters arrived in 1910. In 1949 her father opened the New York version of the Latin Quarter. He also worked as a Broadway producer . He also was the Entertainment Director for the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he imported the Folies Bergre stage show from Paris to the resorts main showroom. Walters brother, Burton, died in 1944 of pneumonia. Walters elder sister, Jacqueline, was born mentally disabled and died of ovarian cancer in 1985.

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