Donahue was known for bringing the audience into the talk-show format, engaging with them just as he did with the notable list of guests on the show.
Phil Donahue, the groundbreaking daytime talk show host of 'The Phil Donahue Show,' has died. He was 88. He died Sunday 'peacefully after a long illness,' his family said in a statement shared with The Times. 'Today' broke the news of the host's death. Donahue was a contributor to the NBC morning show.
In 2004, Donahue toured Washington’s Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he met Tomas Young, a young Kansan who enlisted in the Army not long after 9/11 to fight the war on terrorism. An insurgent’s bullet penetrated Young's spine, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down; he became one of more than 13,000 American soldiers and Marines to return home badly wounded, many permanently disabled.
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