Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

Kuralt's younger brother Wallace who died in December 2003 was also well known in his home state having been the owner of The Intimate Bookshop on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill for many years. During the years he lived in that house Kuralt became one of the youngest radio announcers in the country. Kuralt apparently had a second "shadow" family with Shannon while his wife lived in New York City and his daughters from a previous marriage lived on the eastern seaboard.

" He shared in a third Peabody awarded to CBS News Sunday Morning.