[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 96 (Wednesday, July 9, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4920]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO CHARLES KURALT

  (Mr. ETHERIDGE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ETHERIDGE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a North 
Carolina hero who made us all proud to be Americans. Yesterday Charles 
Kuralt was laid to rest in Chapel Hill, NC. His award winning-broadcast 
career celebrated not the lifestyle of the rich and famous, but regular 
ordinary Americans off the beaten path. He inspired us not with stories 
of glitzy stars or flashy celebrities, but the common men and women 
whose everyday lives and work made this country great.
  It was North Carolina's values that sent Charles Kuralt on the road 
to discovery, and it was our good fortune that he took us along for the 
ride.
  Born in Wilmington, raised in Charlotte and educated in Chapel Hill, 
Charles Kuralt lived and breathed North Carolina even as he reported to 
us from around the country and across the world. He took North Carolina 
values with him wherever he went, and his road was our road.
  Yesterday under a scorching sky of Tarheel blue this North Carolina 
hero made his final trip.
  Rest in peace, Charles Kuralt.

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