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Nebraska television pioneer Leta Powell Drake died Wednesday morning following a four-month battle with leukemia. She was 83. “Leta of Lincoln,” who became a Nebraska celebrity through her ...

TV broadcaster Leta Powell Drake from Lincoln, Nebraska was 83 when she died on Sept. 15, her son Aaron Drake confirmed to TODAY. Last November, Drake's vintage celebrity interviews, which ...

Nebraska produced great talk-show hosts: Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett, and the incomparable Leta Powell Drake, who had the courage to ask celebrities anything. In the world of celebrity interviewers ...

Leta Powell Drake has been a celebrity to the residents of Lincoln, Nebraska, for more than 40 years, thanks to her decades of work as a beloved local TV personality. But late Wednesday night ...

But the typical questions celebrities are asked do not interest TV broadcaster Leta Powell Drake from Lincoln, Nebraska. The 82-year-old has recently gone viral for her unique interview style that ...

And she was real. Never shy, and always willing to try. That’s how many of us will remember Leta Powell Drake or 10/11′s Kalamity Kate from “Cartoon Corral” and the 10/11 morning show.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - 1011 NOW has learned that former 1011 personality Leta Powell Drake has passed away. She was 83 years old. She served as program director at KOLN-TV for 28 years ...

Leta Powell Drake spent decades producing and hosting segments for a Lincoln, Nebraska, CBS station — most notably as the blunt interrogator of big-name actors from Tom Selleck to Tom Hanks.

Leta Powell Drake: Well, the thing is that I know all of the clips because I saved them, I saved all those interviews and I gave them to the Nebraska History Museum about five years ago.

Leta Powell Drake has gone viral. The longtime Lincoln television personality, who hosted the 10/11 Morning Show for a quarter-century, and, for 15 years, was Kalamity Kate on the afternoon kids ...

TV broadcaster Leta Powell Drake from Lincoln, Nebraska was 83 when she died on Sept. 15, her son Aaron Drake confirmed to TODAY. Last November, Drake's vintage celebrity interviews, which ...