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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
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Never

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I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
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