Larry King, the broadcasting giant whose interviews with world leaders, movie stars, and ordinary Joes helped define America for a half-century, died Saturday at 87, his production company Ora Media tweeted.
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A longtime nationally syndicated radio host, from 1985 through 2010, he was a nightly fixture on CNN, where he won many honors, including two Peabody awards.
King conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews. In 1995 he presided over a Middle East peace summit with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He welcomed everyone from the Dalai Lama to Elizabeth Taylor, from Mikhail Gorbachev to Barack Obama, Bill Gates to Lady Gaga.
No cause of death was given, but a spokesperson said Jan. 4 that King had COVID-19, had received supplemental oxygen, and had been moved out of intensive care. His son Chance Armstrong also confirmed King's death, CNN reported.
