Cokie Roberts

{{Infobox person

| image = Cokie Roberts (49094906053).jpg

| caption = Roberts in 1998

| birth_name = Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs

| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1943|12|27}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|9|17|1943|12|27}}

| birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.

| death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.

| resting_place = Congressional Cemetery

| known_for = Journalist, author, pundit, television

| alma_mater = Wellesley College (BA)

| employer = NPR, ABC, PBS

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| occupation = Journalist, author

| title = Contributing Senior News Analyst

| spouse = {{marriage|Steven V. Roberts |1966}}

| children = Lee Roberts
Rebecca Roberts

| parents = Hale Boggs
Lindy Boggs

| relatives = Barbara Boggs Sigmund (sister)
Tommy Boggs (brother)

}}

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts (née Boggs;{{cite interview|last=Roberts |first=Cokie |interviewer=Charlie Rose |title=Private Video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMbWs5gyXrM |type=video interview |work=Charlie Rose |publisher=PBS |date=March 8, 1993 |access-date=May 20, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720180149/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMbWs5gyXrM |archive-date=July 20, 2014 }} December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019) was an American journalist and author.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/books/review/inside-the-list.html|title=Inside the List|last=Cowles|first=Gregory|date=April 24, 2015|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 8, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=August 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808095005/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/books/review/inside-the-list.html|url-status=live}} Her career included decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio, PBS, and ABC News, with prominent positions on Morning Edition, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, and This Week. She was considered one of NPR's "Founding Mothers"{{Cite web |title=NPR's Founding Mothers: Susan, Linda, Nina And Cokie |url=https://www.mtpr.org/arts-culture/2021-05-06/nprs-founding-mothers-susan-linda-nina-and-cokie |access-date=April 6, 2022 |date=May 6, 2021 |language=en-US |archive-date=May 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502163746/https://www.mtpr.org/arts-culture/2021-05-06/nprs-founding-mothers-susan-linda-nina-and-cokie |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title='Founding Mothers' of NPR Recount Trailblazing Early Days of Public Radio |url=https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/npr-founding-mothers |access-date=April 6, 2022 |date=April 16, 2021 |language=en-US |archive-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406204944/https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/npr-founding-mothers |url-status=live }} along with Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg.

Roberts, along with her husband, Steve, wrote a weekly column syndicated by United Media in newspapers around the United States. She served on the boards of several non-profit organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation{{cite web|url=http://www.kff.org/about/trustees2.cfm|title=Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation – Board of Trustees|access-date=March 1, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304122755/http://www.kff.org/about/trustees2.cfm|archive-date=March 4, 2010}} and was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation.{{cite web |url=http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov/council/members/index.asp |title=Meet the Council Members |access-date=April 10, 2008 |author=President's Council on Service and Civic Participation |author-link=President's Council on Service and Civic Participation |work=USA Freedom Corps |publisher=White House |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411040001/http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov/council/members/index.asp |archive-date=April 11, 2008 }}

Early life and education

Roberts was born in New Orleans.{{Cite web |last=Pope |first=John |date=September 17, 2019 |title=Cookie Roberts, a 'pioneer in journalism' and daughter of Louisiana political legends, dead at 75 |url=https://www.nola.com/news/article_350d2e42-d98d-11e9-8dff-bb3b5767399a.html |access-date=June 25, 2022 |website=NOLA.com |language=en}} She received the nickname Cokie from her brother, Tommy, who as a child could not pronounce her given name, Corinne.{{cite web|title=Cookie Roberts|url=http://history.house.gov/Oral-History/People/Cokie-Roberts/|website=History, Art & Archives|publisher=U.S. House of Representatives|access-date=December 31, 2016|archive-date=January 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111233403/http://history.house.gov/Oral-History/People/Cokie-Roberts/|url-status=live}}

Her parents were Lindy Boggs and Hale Boggs, each of whom served for decades as Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Louisiana; Lindy succeeded Hale after his plane disappeared over Alaska in 1972.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/14/AR2010081403005.html|title=Alaska plane crash a painful reminder for families of Boggs and Begich|last=Horowitz|first=Jason|date=August 15, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-date=September 14, 2016|access-date=September 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914094411/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/14/AR2010081403005.html|url-status=live}} Cokie was their third child. Her sister Barbara became mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and a candidate for the United States Senate. Her brother Tommy became a prominent attorney and lobbyist in Washington, D.C.{{cite news|title=Tommy Boggs, influential lobbyist dies; son of Congresswoman Boggs|url=http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/10278636-123/tommy-boggs-dies|newspaper=The New Orleans Advocate|date=September 15, 2014|archive-date=March 30, 2023|access-date=September 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330172047/http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/10278636-123/tommy-boggs-dies|url-status=live}}

She attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls Roman Catholic high school in New Orleans, and graduated from the Stone Ridge School, an all-girls school outside Washington, D.C., in 1960.{{cite web|url=http://www.stoneridge.org/alumnae/authors.htm|title=Alumnae Excellence|access-date=April 11, 2008|author=Stone Ridge School|author-link=Stone Ridge School|quote=Cokie Boggs Roberts '60|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516224010/http://www.stoneridge.org/alumnae/authors.htm|archive-date=May 16, 2008}} She graduated from Wellesley College in 1964, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in political science.{{cite web|url=http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/famousalums.html|title=Notable Wellesley College Alumnae|access-date=April 10, 2008|author=Wellesley College|author-link=Wellesley College|archive-date=June 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622114633/http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/famousalums.html|url-status=dead}}

Career

Roberts' first job in journalism was at WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., where she was host of its weekly public affairs program Meeting of the Minds.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/cokie-roberts-dead-dies-journalist-1203338894/|title=Cookie Roberts, Journalist Savvy About Politics, Dies at 75|first=Carmel|last=Degan|date=September 17, 2019|magazine=Variety}} After moving with her husband Steve, also a journalist, to New York City, she found work in 1967 as a reporter for Cowles Communications. She worked briefly as a producer for WNEW-TV before Steve's career had them relocating to Los Angeles. She worked for Altman Productions and then for KNBC-TV as producer of the children's program Serendipity, which won a 1971 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award. She also moved with her husband to Greece, where she was a stringer for CBS News in Athens.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZkC2D6WkHEC&q=Cokie+Roberts++reporter+for+CBS+News+in+Athens%2C+Greece.&pg=PA303|title=Political Commentators in the United States in the 20th Century|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1997|isbn=0313295859}}

Roberts began working for National Public Radio (NPR) in 1978, working as the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years.{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916/cokie-roberts-pioneering-female-journalist-who-helped-shape-npr-dies-at-75|title=Cookie Roberts, Pioneering Journalist Who Helped Shape NPR, Dies At 75|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=September 17, 2019}} Because of her early involvement as a female journalist in the network at a time when women were not often involved in journalism at the highest levels, she has been called one of the "founding mothers of NPR."{{cite news |last1=Szekely |first1=Peter |title=U.S. journalist Cookie Roberts, a 'founding mother' of National Public Radio, dead at 75 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-cokie-roberts/famed-us-journalist-cokie-roberts-a-founding-mother-of-npr-dead-at-75-idUSKBN1W21SN |website=Reuters |date=September 17, 2019 |access-date=September 18, 2019 |archive-date=September 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190918031014/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-cokie-roberts/famed-us-journalist-cokie-roberts-a-founding-mother-of-npr-dead-at-75-idUSKBN1W21SN |url-status=live }} Roberts was a contributor to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on the evening television news program The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Her coverage of the Iran-Contra Affair for that program won her the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting in 1988.{{cite web|url=http://isd.georgetown.edu/ISDreport_Americas_Diplomacy_Krogh.pdf|title=ISD Report|author=Krogh, Peter F.|date=April 25, 1995|work=Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service|publisher=Georgetown University|page=4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414070231/http://isd.georgetown.edu/ISDreport_Americas_Diplomacy_Krogh.pdf|archive-date=April 14, 2008|access-date=April 11, 2008}} From 1981 to 1984, in addition to her work at NPR, she also cohosted The Lawmakers, a weekly public television program on Congress.{{cite web|url=https://journalism.ku.edu/cokie-roberts|title=Cookie Roberts|date=August 6, 2013|website=William Allen White|language=en|access-date=August 8, 2019|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308211213/https://journalism.ku.edu/cokie-roberts|url-status=dead}} Starting in 1992, Roberts served as a senior news analyst and commentator for NPR, primarily on the daily news program Morning Edition.{{cite web|url=https://www.press-citizen.com/story/entertainment/2017/09/08/cokie-roberts-university-iowa-lecture-postponed/646582001/|title=Cookie Roberts' University of Iowa lecture postponed|last=Berg|first=Zach|website=Iowa City Press-Citizen|language=en|access-date=August 8, 2019}} In 1994, The New York Times credited her, along with NPR's Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg, with transforming male-dominated Washington, D.C., political journalism.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/obituaries/cokie-roberts-dead.html |title=Cookie Roberts Dies; Veteran Broadcast Journalist Was 75 |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |date=September 18, 2019 |work=New York Times |access-date=September 18, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=September 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190917175942/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/obituaries/cokie-roberts-dead.html |url-status=live }}

Roberts went to work for ABC News in 1988 as a political correspondent for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, continuing to serve part-time as a political commentator at NPR.

She appeared as a panelist for many years on ABC News' Sunday morning broadcast This Week with David Brinkley. After Brinkley's retirement, she co-anchored the program with Sam Donaldson (renamed This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts) from 1996 to 2002, while serving as the chief congressional analyst for ABC News. The two were replaced as anchors in September 2002 by George Stephanopoulos. She also covered politics, Congress, and public policy while reporting for World News Tonight and other ABC News broadcasts.{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/author/cokie_roberts|title=Cokie Roberts|website=ABC News|language=en|access-date=August 8, 2019|archive-date=September 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915021407/https://abcnews.go.com/Author/Cokie_Roberts|url-status=live}} Roberts continued to serve occasionally as a panelist on This Week and work on NPR. Her final assignment with NPR was a series of segments on Morning Edition titled "Ask Cokie," in which she answered questions submitted by listeners about subjects usually related to U.S. politics.{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/07/11/740608351/ask-cokie-executive-orders|title=Ask Cokie: Executive Orders|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=September 17, 2019}}

Reporting on Dianna Ortiz case

In 1989, Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Catholic sister from New Mexico, was abducted, raped, and tortured while working in Guatemala by members of a Guatemalan government-backed death squad. Her abductors believed Ortiz was a subversive.{{cite news|author=Weinraub, Judith|title=Back From The Dead; Dianna Ortiz was One of the Missing in Guatemala. She has Only Now found Her Voice|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=0|date=July 18, 1995 |id={{ProQuest| }}}} During a subsequent interview, Roberts contested Ortiz's claim that an American was among her captors. (The United States provided significant military aid to Guatemala at the time.) Roberts implied that Ortiz was lying about the entire episode, although Ortiz later won a lawsuit against a Guatemalan general she accused in the case.{{cite news|title=U.S. Judge Orders Guatemalan to Pay for Atrocities|work=Los Angeles Times|page=16|date= April 13, 1995 |id={{ProQuest| }}}} It was later revealed that Patton Boggs, the law firm of Roberts' brother Tommy, was paid by the Guatemalan government to promote a more positive image of the regime, which was widely criticized internationally for human rights abuses.{{Cite web|url=https://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1993/04/mm0493_05.html|title=The Torturers' Lobby|website=multinationalmonitor.org|access-date=May 14, 2025|archive-date=September 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902121224/https://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1993/04/mm0493_05.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Stein|first=Jeff|title=The Self-Inflicted Wounds Of Colby's CIA|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19960522/2330510/the-self-inflicted-wounds-of-colbys-cia|access-date=December 9, 2013|newspaper=The Seattle Times|date=May 22, 1996|archive-date=December 3, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203192718/https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19960522/2330510/the-self-inflicted-wounds-of-colbys-cia|url-status=live}}{{cite book|last=Sherman|first=John|title=Latin America in Crisis|year=2000|publisher=Westview Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-8133-3540X|page=[https://archive.org/details/latinamericaincr0000sher/page/111 111]|url=https://archive.org/details/latinamericaincr0000sher/page/111}}

Awards and honors

Roberts won the Edward R. Murrow Award,{{cite web|title= Recipients of the Edward R. Murrow Award|url= http://www.cpb.org/aboutpb/awards/murrow/list.html|access-date= April 11, 2008|publisher= Corporation for Public Broadcasting|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080416121756/http://www.cpb.org/aboutpb/awards/murrow/list.html|archive-date= April 16, 2008}} the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress,{{cite web|title=Everett McKinley Dirksen Awards for Distinguished Reporting of Congress|url=http://www.nationalpress.org/info-url3520/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=118438|publisher=National Press Foundation|access-date=April 11, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090127031453/http://www.nationalpress.org/info-url3520/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=118438|archive-date=January 27, 2009}} and a 1991 Emmy Award for her contribution to Who Is Ross Perot? In 1997, she received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Sam Donaldson.{{cite web|title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement|website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/|access-date=February 11, 2021|archive-date=March 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326032022/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/|url-status=live}} In 2000, she won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.{{cite web|last1=Arizona State University|title=Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication|date=January 29, 2009|url=https://cronkite.asu.edu/about/walter-cronkite-and-asu/walter-cronkite-award|access-date=November 23, 2016|archive-date=March 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320212556/https://cronkite.asu.edu/about/walter-cronkite-and-asu/walter-cronkite-award|url-status=dead}}

Roberts and her mother, Lindy Boggs, won the Foremother Award from the National Center for Health Research in 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.center4research.org/foremother-health-policy-hero-awards/|title=Foremother and Health Policy Hero Awards Luncheon|date=May 7, 2018|website=center4research.org|access-date=June 13, 2019|archive-date=April 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428163614/http://www.center4research.org/foremother-health-policy-hero-awards/|url-status=live}}

She was made an honoris causa initiate of Omicron Delta Kappa in 1995 from the University of Akron and later received the organization's highest honor, the Laurel Crowned Circle. Roberts was also inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2000.{{cite news |last1=Malone |first1=Michael |title=Cokie Roberts Has Died at 75 |url=https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/cokie-roberts-has-died-at-75 |access-date=September 17, 2019 |work=Broadcasting & Cable |date=September 17, 2019 |archive-date=September 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190918045031/https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/cokie-roberts-has-died-at-75 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=The Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame |url=https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/broadcasting-cable-hall-fame-111492 |access-date=September 17, 2019 |work=Broadcasting & Cable |date=March 16, 2018}} She was also cited as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting by the American Women in Radio and Television.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/people/2101090/cokie-roberts|title=Cokie Roberts|website=NPR.org|date=December 5, 2018 |language=en|access-date=August 8, 2019}}

Roberts was a president of the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association.

Personal life and death

{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?464579-1/funeral-mass-cokie-roberts Funeral Mass for Cokie Roberts, September 21, 2019], C-SPAN}}

From 1966 until her death, Roberts was married to Steven V. Roberts, a professor and fellow journalist. They met in summer 1962, when she was 18 and he was 19.{{cite interview|last=Roberts|first=Cokie|interviewer=Charlie Rose|title=A conversation with Cokie & Steve Roberts|last2=Roberts|first2=Steven|url=http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2000/02/28/2/a-conversation-with-cokie-steve-roberts|access-date=May 20, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907225533/http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2000/02/28/2/a-conversation-with-cokie-steve-roberts|archive-date=September 7, 2008|url-status=dead|work=Charlie Rose|publisher=PBS|date=February 28, 2000|subject-link2=Steven V. Roberts}} They resided in Bethesda, Maryland.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/fashion/weddings/cokie-and-steven-roberts-a-half-century-of-changing-together.html|title=Cokie and Steven Roberts: A Half-Century of Changing Together|last=Strauss|first=Alix|date=December 26, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 8, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} They had two children: a son, Lee, and a daughter, Rebecca. Roberts was a Roman Catholic.{{Cite news |last=Advani |first=Reena |date=November 1, 2021 |title=A new book captures Cokie Roberts and her 'Life Well Lived' |language=en |work=NPR.org |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/11/01/1049258419/cokie-roberts-steve-roberts-a-life-well-lived-book |access-date=June 25, 2022}}

In 2002, Roberts was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. She was successfully treated at the timeLarry King Live (May 22, 2004). "[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0405/22/lkl.00.html Interviews With Cokie Roberts et al] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015033457/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0405/22/lkl.00.html |date=October 15, 2019 }}" (transcript). Retrieved on March 27, 2009. "No, no. My breast cancer is gone." but died from complications of the disease in Washington, D.C., on September 17, 2019.{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/legendary-journalist-political-commentator-cokie-roberts-dies-75/story?id=65633507 |title=Legendary journalist and political commentator Cokie Roberts dies at 75 |work=ABC News |date=September 17, 2019 |archive-date=September 17, 2019 |access-date=September 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917144831/https://abcnews.go.com/US/legendary-journalist-political-commentator-cokie-roberts-dies-75/story?id=65633507 |url-status=live }}

Works

{{cite book|title=We Are Our Mothers' Daughters: Revised and Expanded Edition |date=1998 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-187235-8}} Essays
{{cite book|author1=Cokie Roberts|author2=Steven V. Roberts|title=From This Day Forward|date=2000|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-186752-1}}
{{cite book|title=Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation|year=2004|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-009025-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/foundingmothers000robe}} The book explores the lives of the women behind the men who wrote the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence.
{{cite book|title=Ladies of Liberty|date=2009|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-173721-3}} Continues the story of early America's influential women who shaped the U.S. during its early stages, chronicling their public roles and private responsibilities.{{cite web|url=https://www.historynet.com/american-history-book-review-ladies-liberty.htm|title=American History Book Review: Ladies of Liberty|date=May 7, 2018|website=HistoryNet|language=en-US|access-date=August 8, 2019}}
{{cite book|author1=Cokie Roberts|author2=Steven V. Roberts|title=Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families|date=2011|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-207465-2}}
{{cite book|title=Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848–1868|date=2015|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-200276-1}} Stories about the formidable women of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War.

References

External sources

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[https://www.npr.org/people/2101090/cokie-roberts Official biography] – NPR
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090617200115/http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=2101090&startNum=3 Recent NPR stories by Cokie Roberts] – NPR
[https://archive.today/20070814210459/http://www.charlierose.com/keywords/cokie-roberts Video Interviews with Cokie Roberts] – Charlie Rose
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060929035404/http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2006-01/womeninfluence.html Women of Influence] – National Endowment for the Humanities
[http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1994/speechescroberts.html 1994 Commencement Speech] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205070539/http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1994/speechescroberts.html |date=February 5, 2012 }} – Wellesley College
[http://oralhistory.clerk.house.gov/interviewee.html?name=roberts-cokie Oral History of the U.S. House of Representatives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121211214823/http://oralhistory.clerk.house.gov/interviewee.html?name=roberts-cokie |date=December 11, 2012 }} – Cokie Roberts gives a first-hand account of growing up in the capital.
{{The Interviews name|cokie-roberts}}
[https://www.npr.org/series/764249402/remembering-cokie-roberts-1943-2019 Remembering Cokie Roberts, 1943–2019]—NPR memorial page, including the NPR special
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