Mother of Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and
the senior analyst for CNN.
She was a pioneering TV journalist, reporter, and writer and producer of documentaries. She was one of the first network newswomen to report from the field in Vietnam, and one of the first women to rise to the upper levels of broadcast management.
Newscaster for ABC News, she was one of the first women TV journalists to report from the field during the Vietnam war.