Talk:Bill Kurtis

Possible copyright issue?

The entire "career" section reads like it's lifted wholesale from someplace, but a Google search isn't turning up anything. I took out some of the most egregious stuff and tried to shoehorn it into proper wiki-style a bit. Will need a lot more work. Riesling (talk) 16:45, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Laura Ingalls Wilder connection?

Laura Ingalls Wilder lived at a place in Independence, Kansas. The place is now located on the William Kurtis ranch. Is William Kurtis = Bill Curtis? Royalbroil 14:57, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

It is cited on one of his references. Royalbroil ^{Talk  Contrib} 13:03, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Reference 2 in footnotes is a bad link

It does not link to the history of Bill Kurtis's father, BGen William Kurtis. Cuprum17 (talk) 18:33, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Bill Kurtis, reporter and journalist, and his sister, Jean Kurtis Schodorf, inherited the family farm, the Lucky Beck, near Independence, Kansas. They inherited the farm from their mother, Wilma Horton Kurtis. In 1970, Margaret Clement, a bookstore owner and historian from Independence, KS, found the site where Laura Ingalls Wilder and family lived in 1869-1871. She pinpointed the location on the farm, owned by Wilma Horton Kurtis. A sign was erected in 1972, denoting the location. In 1976, a school house was moved to the site, the school house where Bill and Jean's grandmother, Lillian Jones, taught in 1901. The following year, volunteers reconstructed a log cabin on the site, built just like the descriptions in the book. The following year, a small post office was moved to the site. After Bill and Wilma Kurtis died, Jean and Bill began operating the Little House on the Prairie.

About 12,000 people visit the site every year from all 50 states and about 23 countries. The gift shop has been moved to the 1880 farm house to the east of the cabin. A wood-framed barn was built in 1923 by their grandfather, Bert Horton. Little House on the Prairie is a non-profit, 501-c3 corporation. The site is currently trying to renovate the barn to use for educational classes about the prairie and books. The site is dedicated to encouraging children to read and to Kansas history.

Consult the Little House web site: www. Littlehouseontheprairie.com Jean Schodorf, Littlehouse1 (talk) 23:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

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correction for Kurtis Chernobyl reference

http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/04/12/cnn-vault-1986-chernobyl.cnn/video/playlists/cnn-1980s-video-vault/ This video was after the NBC crew was in Chernobyl. Clearly Mr. Kurtis claim to be the first is not correct and the correction for truth should stand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.68.183.124 (talk) 16:45, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

NWA Straight Outta Compton reference

From my knowledge of the album, I do not recall a spoken introduction that could be ascribed to any newscaster, much less Bill Kurtis, and the only reference to the alleged sample takes me back to this article. I have added a citation needed tag to that portion.

Reference No. 5 does not have any information relevant to this entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:2380:B3:E8A1:376D:C87A:4A8 (talk) 19:23, 18 July 2019 (UTC)