Janet Leola Langhart Cohen (née Floyd; born December 22, 1941)[2] is an American television journalist and anchor, and author.

[9] But after attending Butler for her freshman year, her scholarship money expired, and she was unable to continue; she then took some extension courses at Indiana University, before going to work full-time.

[14] In 1962, Langhart began her career in Chicago as a model, where she worked for Marshall Field's and the Ebony Fashion Fair.

[16] Around this time, she also began hosting an early morning interview program for women on WISH-TV in Indianapolis; it was called "Indy Today.

Among the famous people with whom she spoke were contralto Marian Anderson, jazz star Louis Armstrong, and popular singer Tony Bennett,[22] as well as Rosa Parks and David Duke.

She became friends with comedian Dick Gregory, Muhammad Ali and F. Lee Bailey, and she has said her mentors include civil rights leaders Melnea Cass and Martin Luther King Jr.[23] She was hired by NBC in mid-1978, and relocated to New York to host a daily talk and interview show called People to People.

[24] But the new show was soon renamed America Alive, and Langhart became a roving correspondent and co-host, along with Bruce Jenner and Pat Mitchell, rather than doing her own program.

[29] After that, Langhart worked on a television show at WOR-TV in New York City called 9 Broadcast Plaza alongside Richard Bey.

She spurred several initiatives to support the morale and well-being of military and civilian employees of the Defense Department, including the Military Family Forum, the Pentagon Pops concert series, the Secretary of Defense Annual Holiday Tour (an entertainment revue), and her series of interviews on Pentagon TV, Special Assignment.

She was given a volunteer position as "First Lady of the USO" and helped recruit celebrities and civilians to work with the United Service Organizations.

[35] In 1999, Langhart-Cohen founded the Citizen Patriot Organization (CPO), a non-profit dedicated to recognizing "those who serve, protect, and defend the United States of America".

It explores race, religion, and the bonds that Langhart and Cohen share through similar life circumstances and backgrounds.

[36] Langhart wrote Anne and Emmett, a one-act play that imagines a conversation between Anne Frank, a German Jew who died in a Nazi concentration camp, and Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago who was lynched in a small town in the Mississippi Delta.

On the afternoon of June 10, 2009, Langhart was on her way to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the premiere of her play, Anne and Emmett.