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Barbara Walters' 12 most influential TV interviews

Barbara Walters attends the New York Public Library Lunch 2016: A New York State of Mind at The New York Public Library- Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on April 13, 2016, in New York.

Legendary newswoman Barbara Walters, who died Friday at 93, may have started out on "Today" and blazed a trail as the first woman to co-anchor the evening news. But she made her name over decades of headline-making TV specials, in which she interviewed celebrities, businesspeople, politicians and — perhaps most memorably — objects of scandal.

Here are a number of the most influential.

Barbra Streisand, 1976

The first edition of "The Barbara

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