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You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
Elvis
Anybody
Heard
Asks
Never

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