Wally Bruner

In the early 1990s, she ran unsuccessfully for the United States Congress on the Democratic ticket against Dan Burton of Indiana; her husband served as her campaign manager.

He also produced an album of poetry with Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Illinois) and created one of the first film libraries for the purpose of selling archived interviews and footage to the network news programs.

[2] Bruner began his career in television as "Wally the Weatherman" with WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana, in the mid-1950s[1] and continued with a variety of roles in small-market stations around the country.

He then landed a job as Capitol Hill correspondent for ABC News and he moved to Washington, D.C. As a news correspondent, he covered the US Congress and the White House throughout the late 1960s; was nominated for an Emmy Award for his coverage of the war in Santo Domingo; and went to Vietnam to cover the war.

[1] Upon his return from Vietnam, he helped organize the AFTRA strike to force the networks to treat war correspondents more fairly.

Following his time with ABC, he served as co-anchor with Alan Smith of the nightly news for Washington, D.C. television station WTTG.

[3] Bruner’s background as an ABC News correspondent had been shared by the program’s original host, John Charles Daly.

with over 1,000 episodes under his belt, Bruner created and hosted a home-repair how-to show he called Wally's Workshop.