Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American television

Television

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 talk show

Talk show

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 host and journalist

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. Since 1991 he has hosted Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose (talk show)

Charlie Rose is an American television interview show, with Charlie Rose as executive producer, executive editor, and host. The show is syndicated...

, an interview show distributed nationally by PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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 since 1993. He was concurrently a correspondent

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 for 60 Minutes II

60 Minutes II

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from its inception in January 1999 until its cancellation in September 2005, and was later named a correspondent on 60 Minutes

60 Minutes

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.
Rose was born in Henderson

Henderson, North Carolina

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, North Carolina

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, the only child of Margaret Frazier and Charles Peete Rose, Sr., tobacco

Tobacco

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 farmers who owned a country store.