Charlayne Hunter-Gault

and also anchored the local evening news. Years later after the couple's 1972 divorce Hunter-Gault gave a speech at the university in which Charlayne Hunter-Gault praised Stovall who Charlayne Hunter-Gault said "unhesitatingly jumped into my boat with me.

In 1967 Charlayne Hunter-Gault joined the investigative news team at WRC-TV Washington D. In 1961 Athens Georgia witnessed part of the civil rights movement when Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes became the first two African-American students to enroll in the University of Georgia. She joined The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1978 as a correspondent and became The NewsHour's national correspondent in 1983.