With “trailblazer” being utilized in nearly each Barbara Walters obituary, maybe no singular video second speaks extra to the trail she solid as a feminine journalist than the shock she acquired on her remaining episode of The View.
Again on Could 15, 2014, Walters ended her 17-plus 12 months run as a cohost on the daytime program, which was conceived as “a chat present that includes 4 or 5 ladies of various backgrounds, completely different generations, and completely different opinions.”
To commemorate the event, daytime speak queen Oprah Winfrey stopped by — partially to lavish her personal reward upon Walters, however most memorably to shock the visitor of honor with a literal parade of greater than 20 feminine journalists who stood on Walters’ shoulders.
There have been in-house ABC friends/alumni comparable to Diane Swayer, Joan Lunden, Robin Roberts and Amy Robach, in fact, however the Avengers-like meeting additionally boasted reporters, anchors and on-air personalities from rival networks, together with Katie Couric, Savannah Guthrie, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hota Kotb.
Watch the emotional and historic second cued up above (to the 12:30 mark).
“I used to be teary,” Walters advised ABC Information afterwards. “However I wasn’t going to cry as a result of I used to be actually very joyful…. It was, actually, for me, very shifting.”
Walters died Friday, Dec. 30 at her dwelling in New York, at age 93. In a tweet saying her loss of life, ABC Information described her as somebody “who shattered the glass ceiling and have become a dominant drive in an business as soon as dominated by males.” (Learn TVLine’s obituary for the journalistic icon right here.)
Along with a profession marked by internet hosting duties on At present, 20/20 and The Barbara Walters Particular, Walters created and co-hosted ABC’s The View. She retired from co-hosting the present in 2014, however remained an government producer.
