104 | SEPTEMBER 26 • 2019
Soul
of blessed memory
Pioneering Journalist
Cokie Roberts Dies
The book From This Day Forward candidly
tells the story of her interfaith marriage.
(JTA) — Cokie Roberts, a
pioneering journalist who, with
her husband, wrote an interfaith
Haggadah and published a book
about their interfaith marriage,
has died.
Roberts was
one of the few
female voices
on the air when
she began in the
1970s and won
several presti-
gious awards
for her work,
including an
Emmy. She was
inducted into the Broadcasting
and Cable Hall of Fame in
2008.
Roberts died Sept. 17, 2019,
in Washington, D.C., at 75
from complications of breast
cancer, the family said in a state-
ment.
She married Steven Roberts, a
Jewish journalist and journalism
professor at George Washington
University, in 1966. Over the
course of their careers, the
couple collaborated on many
occasions, including writing
a nationally syndicated news
column for USA Weekend for
several years.
The couple co-wrote the
book From This Day Forward,
first published in 2000, which
candidly tells the personal story
of their interfaith marriage while
discussing the wider topic of the
state of marriage in America.
In 2011, they published Our
Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for
Interfaith Families, a guide for
mixed-faith families in which
they describe their approach to
celebrating Passover with family
and friends of all faiths.
Steve Roberts told the
Interfaith Family website
“There’
s a joke that Cokie
is the best Jew in the family,
and there’
s a lot of truth to
that.” Cokie Roberts told the
Washington Post that she did
not convert to
Judaism for her
husband because
“I couldn’
t give up
Jesus.”
Cokie Roberts
joined National
Public Radio
in 1978 and
remained asso-
ciated with the
network as a
political commentator until her
death. She began working for
ABC News in 1988 as an on-air
analyst and served for eight
years as co-anchor of its Sunday
morning broadcast and as chief
congressional analyst, as well as
covering politics, Congress and
public policy for World News
Tonight and other ABC News
broadcasts.
She won the Edward R.
Murrow Award and the Walter
Cronkite Award for Excellence
in Journalism. She won the
Emmy in 1991.
Roberts’
full name was Mary
Martha Corinne Morrison
Claiborne Boggs, but she
was first called Cokie by her
brother, who could not pro-
nounce Corinne. Her father
was Thomas Hale Boggs, a
Democratic congressman from
Louisiana, and her mother,
Lindy, was ambassador to the
Holy See and then was elected
to serve as a Louisiana congress-
woman in the seat that had been
held by her husband until his
death, which she held for 17
years.
She is survived by two chil-
dren and six grandchildren.
Cokie Roberts in 2017
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