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Charles Kuralt (September 10, 1934 – July 4, 1997) was an American journalist. He was most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on ''The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite'', and later as the first anchor of ''CBS News Sunday Morning'', a position he held for fifteen years. Kuralt's "On the Road" segments were recognized twice with personal Peabody Awards. The first, awarded in 1968, cited those segments as heartwarming and "nostalgic vignettes"; in 1975, the award was for his work as a U.S. "bicentennial historian"; his work "capture() the individuality of the people, the dynamic growth inherent in the area, and ...the rich heritage of this great nation."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=669 )〕 He shared in a third Peabody awarded to ''CBS News Sunday Morning''. While studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he participated in a radio program called "American Adventure: A Study Of Man In The New World" in the episode titled "Hearth Fire". It is a telling of the advent of TVA's building lakes written by John Ealey and directed by John Clayton. The episode starred Josephine Sharkey, a local housewife and Charles Kuralt, a university student, played the TVA agent. Its original air date was August 4, 1955. The series was produced by the University of North Carolina Communication Center, The National Association of Educational Broadcasters and The Fund For Adult Education, an independent Agency established by the Ford Foundation. ==Early life and career== Kuralt was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. As a boy, he won a children's sports writing contest for a local newspaper by writing about a dog that got loose on the field during a baseball game. Charles’ father, Wallace H. Kuralt. Sr., moved his family to Charlotte in 1945, when he became Director of Public Welfare in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Their house 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charles Kuralt's Boyhood Home )〕 off Sharon Road, then 10 miles south of the city, was the only structure in the area. During the years he lived in that house, Kuralt became one of the youngest radio announcers in the country. Later, at Charlotte’s Central High School, Kuralt was voted “Most Likely to Succeed.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charles Kuralt Called it Home )〕 In 1948, he was named one of four National Voice of Democracy winners at age 14, where he won a $500 scholarship. He later attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he became editor of ''The Daily Tar Heel'' and joined St. Anthony Hall. He worked as a reporter for the ''Charlotte News'' in his home state, where he wrote "Charles Kuralt's People," a column that won him an Ernie Pyle Award. He moved to CBS as a writer, where he became well known as the host of the ''Eyewitness to History'' series. He traveled around the world as a journalist for the network, including stints as CBS's Chief Latin American Correspondent and then as Chief West Coast Correspondent. In 1967, Kuralt and a CBS camera crew accompanied Ralph Plaisted in his attempt to reach the North Pole by snowmobile, which resulted in the documentary ''To the Top of the World'' and his book of the same name. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Kuralt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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