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

JAY GODWIN, WIKIPEDIA

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Frieda & Jay Igol
Lili & Les Gold
Esther & Frank Rosner
Your loving Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren

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