[4] During high school in Helena, Montana she interviewed Audie Murphy, actor and World War II hero.
[7] Political figures she interviewed included nationally known individuals such as Margaret Chase Smith in 1964,[9] and first lady Pat Nixon in 1974.
[1] She often took the opportunity to interview national media figures including Chet Huntley, whom she convinced to narrate a documentary about Helena that she had written, [11] and she appeared with Jane Pauley on the Today Show.
[12] Hollywood celebrities she interviewed included: Joan Crawford, Clint Eastwood, Olivia de Havilland, Bob Hope, Art Linkletter, and Vincent Price.
[10] Bob Hope was her favorite interviewee,[1] though she was also kissed by Robert Goulet when she interviewed him at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
[13] She interviewed many musicians when they were in Great Falls as headliners at the Montana State Fair,[14] and some of these included Johnny Cash[1] and Charley Pride.
[15] Other major public figures she interviewed included Abigail Van Buren,[16] Mary Kay Ash,[17] and local favorite Evel Knievel, a Butte native and nationally known motorcycle daredevil.