Requiem For A Heavyweight
Walt Bodine's final show has inspired a lot of emotions and fond farewells, including this haiku from longtime listener Greg Hack.
View ArticleThe Last Walt Bodine Show
Thank you all for joining KCUR this Friday morning at 10 a.m. for the very last Walt Bodine Show, and showing such outstanding support for Walt, and his contributions to local journalism.Walt was join...
View ArticleBodine, Brooks Honored By KC Council For Decades Service In Government &...
Two notable Kansas Citians have been honored by resolution in city hall council chambers. Walt Bodine and Alvin Brooks were picked for singular achievements.Both men were lauded for forms of public...
View ArticleLegendary Broadcaster Walt Bodine Dies At 92
Longtime journalist, author and talk show host Walt Bodine died early Sunday morning. He was 92.
View ArticleBodine Remembered As Giant Among Broadcasters
Walt Bodine was an aristocrat among newsmen and a friend to the people of Kansas City. The long-time journalist, author and talk show host died early Sunday morning. He was 92.As a reporter, Walt...
View ArticleYour Memories of Walt Bodine
Walt Bodine, legendary Kansas City broadcaster and icon of the city, died Sunday at the age of 92. To celebrate the life and career of Bodine, Central Standard invites his fans, friends and colleagues...
View ArticleKansas Citians React To Loss Of Legendary Broadcaster
KCUR received many emails, online comments, phone calls, tweets and Facebook comments in the wake of the death of legendary journalist Walt Bodine last Sunday. Bodine was 92, and for 72 years he was a...
View ArticleKC Remembers: A Tribute to Walt Bodine
Legendary broadcaster Walt Bodine died on Sunday, March 24, at the age of 92. Today on Central Standard, we remember Walt with familiar sounds of regular guests, old friends, and of course, Walt Bodine.
View ArticleWalt Bodine Eulogized As 'Voice Of Everyman'
Walt Bodine “was us,” said Monroe Dodd, a long-time friend and colleague of the legendary newsman, who died last week at 92. Speaking at a packed memorial service this afternoon at Unity Temple on the...
View ArticleWalt Bodine Special: The Documentary
Join us Thursday morning at 10, as Charles Ferruzza presents an audio documentary about Walt Bodine.
View ArticleWalt Bodine Special: Walt And The Lion
After 72 years as a broadcaster, at the age of 91, Walt Bodine is heading into full retirement. The end of an era approaches; the very last Walt Bodine Show will take place this Friday. What can anyone...
View ArticleOne More Broadcast For A Living Legend
The final Walt Bodine Show was heard Friday, April 27th, celebrating 72 years of originality and honesty across print, TV and radio platforms, as pioneering journalist Walt Bodine retires from KCUR.
View ArticleMarilyn Maye's Song For Walt Bodine
Thank you all for joining KCUR this Friday morning at 10 a.m. for the very last Walt Bodine Show, and showing such outstanding support for Walt, and his contributions to local journalism.
View ArticleA Celebration Of Walt Bodine's Illustrious Career
A colorful era in the world of local media ends this week. Walt Bodine retires after a more than 7 decades in the business.
View ArticleSoul Sister #1 Marva Whitney
Kansas City native and international funk singer Marva Whitney returns to the KCUR studios for a talk with Gina and Walt.
View ArticleWalt Bodine on His Corner of the Great Depression
ListenKansas City, Mo. – KCUR's Walt Bodine spent the Great Depression working at his parents' drugstore in Kansas City. That family business placed Walt right in the thick of one of the wildest...
View ArticleThe Heyday Of Westport High, And Murder At 39th & Main: The Making of Walt...
ListenKansas City, Mo. – Westport High School is slated to close this spring after 103 years. KCUR's Walt Bodine attended classes there in the 1930s, when the school was relatively new, and affluent. A...
View ArticleWalt Covers KC's Worst-Ever Tornado
ListenKansas City, Mo. – Tornadoes raked Kansas and Oklahoma a week ago, killing 5 people. But those storms were minor compared to the one that hit Kansas City on May 20th, 1957. The Ruskin Heights...
View ArticleStoryCorps in KC: Walt Bodine and Tom Bodine
ListenKansas City, MO – Recorded at the MobileBooth in Kansas City in 2006.At StoryCorps recording booths across the country, friends and loved ones interview each other about their lives. Tom Bodine...
View ArticleThe Walt Bodine Collection: The 1951 Flood
Enjoy this selected audio from the Walt Bodine Collection, courtesy of the Marr Sound Archives at the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
View ArticleThe Walt Bodine Collection: Race Riots
Enjoy this selected audio from the Walt Bodine Collection, courtesy of the Marr Sound Archives at the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.1968 Kansas City Riots April 9-11,...
View ArticleThe Walt Bodine Collection: The Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse
Enjoy this selected audio from the Walt Bodine Collection, courtesy of the Marr Sound Archives at the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.1981 Hyatt Regency Walkway...
View ArticleThe Walt Bodine Collection: Interview with Robert Kennedy
Enjoy this selected audio from the Walt Bodine Collection, courtesy of the Marr Sound Archives at the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.Interview with Robert Kennedy
View ArticleThe Walt Bodine Collection: Walt the Humorist
Enjoy this selected audio from the Walt Bodine Collection, courtesy of the Marr Sound Archives at the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.Walt the HumoristWalt discusses...
View ArticleWalt's 'Loveable Joints' On KMBC
Walt Bodine has been a ubiquitous voice for Kansas City over the years, but he's also been a face as well. In these human-interest shorts that he did for KMBC starting in 1982, Walt reaches out to...
View ArticleThe Walt Bodine Collection: Interview With Werner Von Braun
Enjoy this selected audio from the Walt Bodine Collection, courtesy of the Marr Sound Archives at the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.Interview with Werner Von...
View ArticleWalt Bodine Special: Ira Glass
Join us Tuesday morning for a special Walt Bodine Show from 2004, when Walt chats with fellow storyteller Ira Glass of This American Life about the ins and outs of radio journalism, and what happens...
View ArticleThank You, Walt: A Message from Claire McCaskill
Walt's friends are a diverse group: from a lion to famous authors, Walt grilled them all and won their hearts in the process.One of these folks is Senator Claire McCaskill, who recorded a special thank...
View ArticleRemembering The Kansas Citians We Lost In 2013
As 2013 comes to a close, we remember some of the local public figures who died this year. This list is by no means exhaustive, but recognizes some of the most prominent people who were lost in the...
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