BREE WALKER

'Bree Walker' (born February 26, 1953) is a well-known television network news anchor (and later, a talk radio host); she has appeared as a news anchor and/or reporter in San Diego, New York City, and Los Angeles. She was born with ectrodactyly, a rare congenital deformity: her fingers and toes are fused together. As an advocate for persons with disabilities, she is one of the first in her field to succeed in spite of a physical deformity.
Established and well into her career at the ABC affiliate KGTV Channel 10 in San Diego, Walker decided to go public with her ectrodactyly after previously keeping her deformed hands hidden inside a pair of glove-like prosthetic hands. With her hands now clearly visible, she continued her successful newscasting career at KGTV, moving up to the larger markets at WCBS Channel 2 in New York City, and in 1988 to KCBS Channel 2 Los Angeles.
Her media career started as an FM rock and roll disc jockey, on KUDL FM as "''rock's lady of the night''" in Kansas City in the middle 1970s. She soon after became New York City's first-ever female morning drive rock personality. She started her television career in 1980 at KGTV as a consumer advocacy reporter. She also dabbled in acting, appearing as herself in the end of the world SF thriller ''Without Warning'' and as television reporter Wendy Sorenson in ''The Chase'', both in the early 1990s.
Her career took a surprising twist during the 2003 season when she watched the show ''Carnivàle'', an HBO television series about a Depression-era carnival traveling through the Dust Bowl. She noticed that no cast member had ectrodactyly. She requested, created, auditioned, and won the role of ''Sabina, The Scorpion Lady''.
Sabina appeared in three episodes during the 2005 season. She showcases her webbed hands as the series probes public attitudes toward persons with highly visible disabilities. In Walker's own words: "''I really get to be me.''" Walker based Sabina on characters she knew existed in the 1920s and 1930s carnival sideshows with names like ''Lobster Girl'' or ''Lobster Boy''. These were typically the best jobs persons with ectrodactyly could have, with most others being hidden away.
Walker furthered her acting career in 2006 by appearing as an inspirational woman with ectrodactyly on the fourth season premiere of Nip/Tuck. She and her children were also featured on an episode of TLC's ''My Unique Family''.
She and former husband, NBC and HBO sportscaster, Jim Lampley jointly run Crystal Spring Productions, a film production company. She is also contributing writer for ''New Image'' magazine. Walker resides in Del Mar, California with her two children, both of whom also have ectrodactyly. Jim Lampley was her third husband. Her second husband, Robert Walker, from San Diego, California is an independent media production professional active in radio, television, and film production. She had no children with her first husband.
Walker currently hosts a liberal talk show on KTLK AM 1150 in Los Angeles on Saturdays from 2-4pm Pacific Time.

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2007 Purchase of Camp Casey

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2007 Purchase of Camp Casey

On 6/8/07 Brad Friedman of The BRAD BLOG ^[1] broke the news that Walker had purchased Cindy Sheehan's 5-acre "Camp Casey" site in Crawford, Texas for $87,000, in response to Sheehan's May 26, 2007 announcement that she would be selling the site and ending her antiwar activities; Walker plans to preserve the property as a peace memorial and garden, and keep it open to antiwar protesters. The Associated Press confirmed the report on 6/9/07 ^[2].
Sheehan handed the deed to Walker during her 6/9/07 broadcast of The Bree Walker show. ^[3].

See also

★ Larry King Live transcript

★ Diane Bell, "Of Bree, HBO and ectrodactyly", ''San Diego Union Tribune'' newspaper, January 25, 2005

★ for her career biography.

References

1. http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4665
2. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/09/state/n031247D29.DTL
3. http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4667