Jim Hartz, the low-key, folksy newsman who hosted the "Today" show with Barbara Walters in the mid-1970s, less than halfway through his three-decade television career, died April 17 in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was 82.
Jim Hartz, 82, who hosted the Today show with Barbara Walters in the mid-1970s, died on April 17, 2022, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his wife confirmed.