Barbara Walters, a First Among TV Newswoman and Shah interviewer, Is Dead at 93

Walters was widely lampooned for asking actress Katharine Hepburn, “If you were a tree, what kind would you be?” On the last 20/20 television episode in which she appears, Walters showed a video of the Hepburn interview, showing the actress saying that she felt like a strong tree in her old age. Walters followed up with the question, “What kind of a tree?”, and Hepburn responded “an oak” because they don’t get Dutch elm disease.

December 31, 2022 | 9:12 am