Wally Bruner
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Wallace Bruner Jr. (March 4, 1931 – November 3, 1997) was an American journalist and television host.
He formerly covered Congress and the Lyndon Johnson administration for ABC News in the 1960s.
He was the first host of What's My Line, 1968-1975 syndicated version. Wally's Workshop, a syndicated home repair show, was on display.
Personal life
Bruner was born in Ames, Iowa, on March 4, 1931, to Wallace and Audrey Bruner. He was born in Tell City, Indiana.
After graduation, he married his classmate, Patricia Thomas, who died. In Casey, Illinois, the two later constructed and operated radio station WKZI. They had eight children: Rickey, born in 1950, Sherri (twins), Ted and Tim (twins), born in 1954, Kathy and Kevin (twins), born in 1954. Kristine was born in 1957. In the late 1960s, they divorced.
When she was a contestant on What's My Line, Bruner's second wife, Natalie, became his second wife. Wally, Jr., and Lee were the two children of two families. Natalie appeared on Wally's Workshop. She ran unsuccessfully for the United States Congress in the early 1990s against Dan Burton of Indiana; her husband served as her campaign manager.
Bruner himself was also involved in politics. He served as campaign manager for Senator Vance Hartke (D-Indiana) and as the west coast coordinator of Senator Eugene McCarthy's campaign for president. With Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Illinois), he produced an album of poetry and established one of the first film libraries for the purpose of distributing archived interviews and footage to the network news networks.
Bruner was one of the first heart transplant recipients in the United States after suffering a heart attack in his 50s.
Bruner died in Indianapolis, Ohio, on November 3, 1997, of liver cancer. Natalie and the ten children survived him.
Early television career
Bruner began his television career with WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana, in the mid-1950s, and he spent time in a variety of capacities in small-market stations around the country. He also built and operated Radio Station WKZI in Casey, Illinois, with his first wife, Patricia. Stanley Rocklin, then News Director of KTVK, the then ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona, where he worked with his Assistant News Director and cinematographer.
He then moved to Washington, D.C., as a US Congress and White House reporter, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Santo Domingo war; and he went to Vietnam to cover the conflict. On his return from Vietnam, he helped organize the AFTRA strike to force the networks to treat war correspondents more effectively. He appeared with ABC as co-anchor with Alan Smith of the nightly news for Washington, D.C. television station WTTG.