Barbara Walters, a superstar and pioneer in TV news, has died at 93

With New York Mayor Abraham Beame to her right, NBC newswoman Barbara Walters shows off the Person of the Year Gold Key Award, presented to her by Verne S. Atwater, President of the Avenue of Americas Association, in foreground right, at New York City's Hilton Hotel, October 22, 1975. Canadian Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Alastair Gillespie, center right, was presented with the Inter-American Gold Key Award. (AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis)

Composer Richard Rodgers, left, is embraced by NBC newswoman Barbara Walters, who recently signed a contract with ABC. They met backstage following the opening performance of "Rex," Rodgers 41st musical on April 25, 1976 at New York Theater. (AP Photo/RED)

American television newscaster Barbara Walters interviews Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 22, 1977. (AP Photo/Harry Koundakjian)

Regis Philbin, right, and Barbara Walters are seen at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday June 20, 2008 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

Television journalist Barbara Walters attends the Metropolitan Opera season opening night gala performance at Lincoln Center on Monday, Sept. 22, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

Kitty Dukakis, right, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, points something out to newscaster Barbara Walters Monday during a stroll through Dukakis' neighborhood at Perry Street, Brookline, Mass., September 19, 1988. This Brookline suburb of Boston is also the area Walters herself was raised as a child. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama appears on the ABC's television show "The View" in New York, Monday, May 14, 2012. From left are, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, the president, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Television journalist Barbara Walters attends the opening night of "A Time To Kill" on Broadway on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Broadcast journalist Barbara Walters addresses an audience at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on the campus of Harvard University, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, in Cambridge, Mass. Walters, known over her long career for interviews with newsmakers including Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Britain's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was a news anchor and co-host for decades. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger gives a kiss to ABC ABC's newswoman Barbara Walters at the Plaza Hotel in New York, November 28, 1978, after Walters was honored with an awards from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. In the background left is CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, who was also honored. (AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis)

Network news correspondents Dan Rather, left, of CBS News, Tom Brokaw of NBC News and Barbara Walters, right, of ABC News, host the International Radio and Television Society Gold Medal Award for president of ABC News and Sports Roone Arledge in New York City, Wednesday night, March 10, 1983. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Barbara Walters talks with exiled leader Jean Claude Duvalier, June 12, 1986 in his first interview since leaving Haiti. They spoke at Duvalier's rented villa in Grasse, France. (AP Photo/Jim Globus, ABC News)

Talk show host Barbara Walters, left, poses with her new co-host on "The View," Rosie O'Donnell, backstage at the 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Friday, April 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Barbara Walters, shown during the "Today" broadcast on Thursday, June 3, 1976 from New York. Thursday marked Walters' last five appearance on the National Broadcasting Company Network. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff )

Barbara Walters shown after opening night on the ABC evening news with Anchor partner, Harry Reasoner on Oct. 4, 1976. (AP Photo)

Barbara Walters reacts to as she stands next to Dr. Henry Kissinger at a dinner honoring the former secretary of state on May 3, 1980 by the Friars Club at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Kissinger will receive the "Man of the Year" award at this testimonial dinner in New York. (AP Photo)

ABC television newscaster Barbara Walters is shown with her husband, Merv Adelson, in this November 1986 photograph. (AP Photo)

Former President Ronald Reagan and ABC's newscaster Barbara Walters walk along Madison Avenue in New York City, Monday, Nov. 13, 1989. Walters is interviewing Reagan for a television special. (AP Photo/Frankie Ziths)

ABC News? presenter Barbara Walters poses with Dr. Jack Kevorkian, of Royal Oak, Mich., with a face mask connected to a tank. This is similar to a machine Kevorkian has used in assisting 15 suicides in Mich., since 1991. Walters interviewed Kevorkian in Dearborn, Mich., Wednesday, March 11, 1993 for a segment of 20/20 television magazine show, which will air Friday. (AP Photo)

ABC News Correspondent Barbara Walters, Creator, Co-Host and Executive Producer, "The View" speaks at the Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women and Families titled "Women as Architects of Change: Lessons on Leadership, Activism and Family" as Billie Jean King, Co-Founder, World TeamTennis looks on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005, in Long Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Singer Jessica Simpson, center, joins "The View" co-hosts Rosie O'Donnell, left, Barbara Walters, second from left, Joy Behar, second from right, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck during the taping of the first show of the 10th season of the ABC women's chat show Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006 in New York. The show began its 10th season with O'Donnell joining the returning Behar, Hasselbeck and Walters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

**FILE**Rosie O'Donnell, left, gets a high five from co-hosts Barbara Walters as O'Donnell joined the cast for the taping of the first show of the 10th season of the ABC talk show, "The View" on Sept. 5, 2006 in New York. O'Donnell is in the midst of a war of words with Donald Trump. There are questions about how Walters feels about the latest uproar. Especially since this year's departure of Meredith Vieira led Walters to seek out O'Donnell. Walters was on vacation Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006, and unavailable for comment, a show spokesman said. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Barbara Walters speaks with a neighbor during a luncheon in New York, Thursday, April 17, 2008, featuring California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg hosts annual luncheon to discuss his political agenda. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)