Geraldo Rivera’s 40 Years of Television Documented on Fox

Geraldo Rivera , 67, has been in the broadcast news business for 40 years. How he is perceived is most often determined by the age of the viewer.

“I’ve been closer to death than any ‘celebrity journalist’ in the last half century. It’s been an amazingly full life. I sometimes get worn out just looking back,”

he said. For forty years, Geraldo, one of the few one-name celebs on TV, is still at work.

His high points include the first AIDS documentary, his chat with Charles Manson, and he discovered the Pentagon was spending $600 for toilet seats and gold-plated faucets

But then there was Al Capone’s vault…

“That allowed me to be the fodder of whole generations worth of late night comics,”

Geraldo said, but …

“I’m the only man ever to appear on both the covers of Playgirl and Newsweek.”

Fox will air a special about Geraldo Riveras journey at 10 p.m. Saturday.

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