CNN’s Jack Cafferty’s Wife Carol Cafferty Died (Photos)
Posted on September 5, 2008
Jack Cafferty’s wife, Carol Cafferty, died today. John Cafferty of CNN’s Cafferty Files, lost his wife, Carol Cafferty unexpectedly this morning. The announcement was made by Wolf Blitzer on CNN. See video below.
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From CNN:
Jack Cafferty wasn’t present today for his Cafferty File show, due to the tragic passing of his wife, Carol.
Cafferty’s wife of 35 years, Carol, passed away unexpectedly this morning. Carol was everything to Jack. The dedication of his book reads, “for Carol, my wife, my life.”
Jack wrote about how she was the inspiration for him to get sober and straighten up his life: “In all the years that we’ve been married, she has always brought to the table her unshakable grounding in something a lot more real than being on television or being recognized in the corner drugstore. She has been my rock, having done a magnificent job of keeping me from getting full of helium and drifting off the surface of the earth… She was all the incentive I needed to make painful but transforming changes – to get sober and stop smoking. I knew that I’d lose her if I didn’t. She’s an amazing woman who simply wasn’t worth losing.”
One story Jack loves to tell is how he and Carol met – when he was a local news anchor in Kansas City. They started to meet regularly for a quick meal between his shows and became good friends. Whenever Jack had to leave, his exit line was “We’d better wrap this up. Got to get back to the station.” One night Carol finally asked, “What kind of a gas station do you work at? You’re always wearing a tie.”
Jack explained it was a television station. He loved the fact that she had no clue and couldn’t care less that he had been on air there every night for four years. He later described that as one of his life’s “twenty-four-carat moments” that made his heart soar. He said to himself then that he might marry her because “it can’t get any more honest and pure than that.”
Our deepest sympathies go out to Jack and to their two daughters, Leslie and Leigh. Our thoughts are also with Jack’s other two daughters, Julie and Jill, and his grandchildren.
Reports say that Carol’s death came unexpectedly and the cause of her death has not yet been announced. She leaves behind her husband Jack, their two daughters, Leslie and Leigh, Jack’s two other daughters, Julie and Jill and grandchildren.
Carol J. Cafferty was 60 and resided in Cedar Grove, New Jersey with Jack at the time of her death.
Funeral services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, at the Hixson-Klein Funeral Home in Gower. Burial will be at Allen Cemetery, also in Gower. Visitation will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, at the funeral home.
See Video of Wolf Blitzer’s announcement of Carol Cafferty’s death below:
Details of Carol Cafferty’s death have not yet been announced. Our condolences to Jack Cafferty, his family, and friends.
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Jack Cafferty, What a judgment!
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Sorry for your loss. I lost my grandma this morning as well. Seems that we’re both in mourning. There are no words to comfort you, only God can do that. My prayers are with you.
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Dear Jack:
I am so sorry to hear about your wife Carol. Everyone who watches you on the Situation Room feels some lose. You are a very strong individual. Believe that, I am sure with all your family, friends at CNN and friends from the viewers you will, in time, come through this. I am a Canadian, but I watch you as much
as my job will allow. I enjoy your question
and answer period. Especially, your views, strong and honest, right from the heart. Take care and be strong.
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My heart goes out to you Jack, and to your family. I know how you feel, for I lost my husband some years ago, but it seems like only yesterday. With the Grace of God, you will triumph through the pain and suffering. You may not think so now, but take it from one who knows, the human spirit finds a way to get to the light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how may miles long the tunnel is. Time is a healer, one day at a time, sometimes one hour at a time. May the Lord cover you and yours with His feathers and hide you under the Shadow of His Wings.
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once upon a time- were going to keep this up until -you know
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I’m deeply sorry for your loss, I lost my mother in 2002 and all though the pain never really goes away, it is always a part of you, but you learn to not feel so hurt by it as time goes on. You learn in time that it is there inside of you, but you don’t have to feel it if you don’t want to.
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He deserved it. Bad karma…
On the April 9, 2008 broadcast of CNN’s The Situation Room, asked to comment on the United States’ relationship with the United States’ relationship with China, Cafferty responded: “I think they’re basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they’ve been for the last 50 years”.[10] The Legal Immigrant Association started an online petition calling for a formal apology, indicating that Mr. Cafferty’s rant was anti-Chinese and has had the effect of exacerbating negative attitudes held by Americans toward Chinese and Chinese Americans. On the April 14, 2008 broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room”, Jack Cafferty clarified his remarks: “Last week, during a discussion of the controversy surrounding China’s hosting of the Olympic Games, I said that the Chinese are basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they have been for the last 50 years. I was referring to the Chinese government, and not to Chinese people or to Chinese-Americans.”[11] CNN allegedly issued a controversial apology on April 14, to “anyone who has interpreted the comments to be causing offense.”[12] Not satisfied with CNN’s response, several thousand demonstrators picketed CNN’s Atlanta, Georgia[13] and Hollywood offices and demanded that CNN remove him from the network.[14]
A protest was held on April 26, 2008 in front of CNN headquarters in Atlanta.[15] On the same day, a few thousand Chinese and Chinese Americans protested in front of a CNN office in San Francisco. [16] [17]
On May 15, 2008, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, CNN President Jim Walton sent a letter to Zhou Wenzhong, Chinese ambassador to the United States: “On behalf of CNN I’d like to apologize to the Chinese people for that. CNN has the highest respect for Chinese people around the world and we have no doubt that there was genuine offense felt by them over the Jack Cafferty commentary.”[18] CNN, however, denies that an apology to the Chinese government was ever made, stating that it was meant for the Chinese people alone.
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