Remembering Cokie Roberts

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published September 18, 2019 at 6:19 PM CDT

Cokie Roberts, a founding voice for NPR and NPR News, died yesterday at age 75. In 2008, she spoke with Ozarks at Large about her book, Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation.

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