From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 10, 1989:

Charles Kuralt, the popular anchor of CBS-TV’s “Sunday Morning” program, was honored today at Kansas University with the 1989 William Allen White Foundation Award for Journalistic Merit. Kuralt, speaking to a KU audience, said he spent his time traveling back roads and small towns for his “On the Road” series, which appeared on the CBS evening news, and then returned to New York on weekends to host “Sunday Morning.” During his 23 years on the road, the network had never given him a story assignment, “so I just don’t do stories about people I don’t like,” he said, adding that “a lot of stories come from just looking out the window.” He related a story that came from a drive through Indiana in the 1960s, when he spotted a house decorated with a banner reading “Welcome home Roger.” Stopping at the house to find out who Roger was and why his arrival was so highly anticipated, Kuralt had learned that Roger was due home from Vietnam any day and that his mother was in the kitchen baking his favorite pie, while his wife was holding Roger’s child. The resulting story had “touched something in the national mood at the moment,” Kuralt said today, adding that CBS had received hundreds of letters about it.