Roberts, Cokie
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Fuller Name
- Corinne
Variants
- Roberts, Corinne
- Boggs, Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne, 1943-2019
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1943-12-27
Death Date
- 2019-09-17
Has Affiliation
- Organization: National Public Radio (U.S.)
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1988
- Organization: ABC News
Birth Place
- New Orleans (La.)
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Sources
- found: American women, a political portrait [SR] p1982:narration (Cokie Roberts; reporter) National Public Radio microfiche (Roberts, Cokie)
- found: We are our mothers' daughters, 1998:CIP t.p. (Cokie Roberts) galley (grad. from Wellesley, 1964; has been reporter for ABC News and National Public Radio) data sheet (Roberts, Corinne (Cokie))
- found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 17, 2019(Cokie Roberts, a journalist and political commentator who became one of the most prominent Washington broadcasters of her era and championed young women in media during a long career with NPR and ABC News, died Sept. 17 [2019] in Washington. She was 75. Ms. Roberts was born Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs in New Orleans on Dec. 27, 1943--and said her brother Tommy nicknamed her Cokie because he couldn't pronounce Corinne. She worked at CBS News, NPR and PBS before joining ABC News in 1988, and co-anchored the Sunday political show "This Week" with Sam Donaldson from 1996 to 2002. She also wrote several best-selling books, focusing on powerful women in American history, and penned a syndicated political column with her husband, journalist Steven V. Roberts)
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Change Notes
- 1989-02-06: new
- 2020-05-06: revised
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