Tar Heel Traveler: The room of Charles Kuralt at UNC in Chapel Hill

FOLLOW ALL OTHER FISHING LIMITS

AND HE DIED ON THE 4TH OF JULY.

THE BELOVED NORTH CAROLINIAN

AND PERHAPS ONE OF THE GREATEST

STORYTELLERS OF ALL TIME

TONIGHT, TARHEEL TRAVELER SCOTT

MASON REVISITS A SPECIAL ROOM

IN CHAPEL HILL. MASON

CELEBRATES CHARLES KURALT.

AND SO DOES UNC.

I THINK HE SHOWED THE POWER OF

THE ORDINARY PERSON, CHARLES

CURL. HE WAS A GENTLEMAN.

HE WAS A

>> WE ARE IMPRESSED BY HOW GOOD

SO MANY AMERICANS ARE UP.

WHATEVER BODY KNEW HIM BACK

THEN THERE'S CORONA. SCOTT KING

AND THERE'S THE POLL AND HERE

IS CORRODES MANHATTAN OFFICE

IN CHAPEL HILL AND WE MOVED

EVERYTHING. THESE ARE CHARLES'S

GLASSES THAT HE HAD ON THE DESK

AND CORRODES GLASSES. HIS

BOOKS, HIS TRAVEL GUY AT THE

PAINTING OF HIM FLY FISHING IN

NORTH CAROLINA.

>> IT WAS ALL IN HIS NEW YORK

OFFICE ON 57TH STREET AND NOW

IT'S AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH

CAROLINA WHERE YOUNG CHARLES

WENT TO COLLEGE. SHE LOVED THE

UNIVERSITY SO MUCH THAT HE

WANTED TO BE BURIED HERE ON

THIS CAMPUS. HE IS BURIED ON

CAMPUS WITH THE DAFFODILS.

IT'S NAMED FOR.

>> CHARLES, THE COLD AFTER TO

IMPART LONG THEY THINK OF THE

4TH OF JULY, NOT ONLY AS

INDEPENDENCE DAY, CHARLES

KURALT DIED ON THE 4TH OF JULY

1997, WHICH WAS FITTING DAYS

AFTER HIS DEATH. THE UNIVERSITY

RECEIVED PERMISSION TO PRESERVE

HIS OFFICE TO MOVE HIS OFFICE.

SO ALL THE DESKS, EVERYTHING

INCLUDING THE MANTLE. WHAT DO

YOU THINK WHEN YOU STAND IN

HERE? WELL, YOU THINK ABOUT

GOOD JOURNALISM. YOU THINK OF

CHARLES, WHAT WILL HE CHARLES

KURALT WENT ON THE ROAD.

THIS IS CHARLES OF NEBRASKA.

HE TOLD FEATURE STORIES ON THE

NETWORK KNEW HUMILIATED BY 104

YEAR-OLD.

>> AT A TIME IN AMERICA THAT

WAS VERY DIFFICULT WHEN NEWS OF

THE TIME OF SAID DRUGS, ROCK

AND ROLL AND WE HATE VIETNAM

AND HE CAME IN WAS SOMETHING

THAT JUST MAKE YOU FEEL MORE

SECURE. AND HE BELIEVED IN

TALKING TO THE COMMON MAN.

HE BELIEVED THAT EVERYBODY HAD

A STORY TO TELL. HIS CAR

DOESN'T RUN ON GAS. THE RUNS ON

4 CUPS IN NO RIDE. HE DIDN'T

OVER SHOOTING. HE HAD THE

ESSENCE OF IT AND HE MADE YOU

FEEL IT HAS EVER. CHARLES.

>> THE LETTER CORONA ROAD TO

THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM,

PRESIDENT ASKING IF THERE MIGHT

BE SPACE AVAILABLE IN THE

CAMPUS CEMETERY. VERY EMOTIONAL

IN THEIR CHARLES SAYS THAT HE

DOESN'T THINK AND THEN HE DIED

TODAY SLAYING TO OF LUPUS.

HE WAS 62 YEARS OLD. HE REALLY

DID FIND SOME OF THE SOUL OF

UNC. AND TODAY, UNC HONORS HIM

WITH THE CHARLES CURL TO

LEARNING CENTER. DO YOU SORT OF

FEEL HIS PRESENCE? HE?

>> YES, SHE CAN TELL HE WAS

PRESENT.

>> WHAT A CAREER TODAY THAT

CHARLES COROLLA LEARNING CENTER

AT UNC. HE'S OCCASIONALLY USED