Larry King, TV Host Who Interviewed Presidents, Dies at 87
- Ted Turner persuaded him to join CNN, his home for 25 years
- King won an Emmy award for lifetime achievement in 2011
Larry King
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Larry King, the broadcast interviewer whose nonconfrontational style attracted celebrities and newsmakers as guests and made him the star of a top-rated U.S. cable talk show, has died. He was 87.
King died Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to a statement on his official Twitter account. The cause of death wasn’t provided but he had spent time recently undergoing treatment for Covid-19. He had bypass surgery following a heart attack in 1987 and later was treated twice for cancer.