The Steady Drip: CNN Founder Ted Turner Dead at 87 (Connecting the Dots: Ted Turner & The Carnegie/Soros Network)

CNN Founder Ted Turner Dead at 87 (Connecting the Dots: Ted Turner & The Carnegie/Soros Network)

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Wednesday, 06 May 2026 11:06 AM EDT

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Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the American West and transformed the news business by launching CNN in 1980, has died at age 87.

The network reported Turner died Wednesday, citing a news release from Turner Enterprises.

Turner owned professional sports teams in Atlanta, defended the America’s Cup in yachting in 1977 and donated a stunning $1 billion to United Nations charities. He married three women — most famously actor Jane Fonda — and earned the nicknames “Captain Outrageous” and “The Mouth of the South.”

He once bragged: “If only I had a little humility, I’d be perfect.”

He was slowed in later years by Lewy Body Dementia. Long since out of the television business, he concentrated on philanthropy and his more than 2 million acres of property, including the nation’s largest bison herd.

His garrulous personality sometimes overshadowed a driven, risk-taking business acumen.

By the time he sold his Turner Broadcasting System to Time Warner Inc. in a 1996 media megadeal, Turner had turned his late father’s billboard company into a global conglomerate that included seven major cable networks, three professional sports teams and a pair of hit movie studios.

Turner’s signature achievement was creating CNN, the first 24-hour, all-news television network in 1980. At a time news is instantly available at anyone’s fingertips, it’s hard to recall that the idea of letting consumers decide when they choose to learn what’s going on in the world was once revolutionary.

In part, Turner’s own frustration with television news was the instigator. He often worked past 8 p.m., after the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly newscasts had already gone off the air, and was in bed by the time his local stations did their own newscasts at 11 p.m.

He took a chance by starting the operation sometimes derided as the “chicken noodle network” in the early days of cable television, living in an apartment above its Atlanta office.

“I was going to have to hit hard and move incredibly fast and that’s what we did — move so fast that the (broadcast) networks wouldn’t have the time to respond, because they should have done this, not me,” Turner recalled in a 2016 interview with the Academy of Achievement. “But they didn’t have the imagination.”

CNN’s breakthrough moment came during the Gulf War with Iraq in 1991. Most television journalists had fled Baghdad, warned of an imminent American attack. CNN stayed, capturing arresting images of a war’s outbreak, with anti-aircraft tracers streaking across the sky and correspondents flinching from the concussion of bombs.

Turner was promised a continued role in CNN after his company’s sale to Time Warner for $7.3 billion in stock, but was gradually pushed out, much to his regret.

“I made a mistake,” he later said. “The mistake I made was losing control of the company.”

That same year — 1996 — saw the birth of Fox News Channel and arrival of a new dominant mogul in cable news, Rupert Murdoch. Political opinion became the stock in trade of networks like Fox News and MSNBC.

Even though CNN built a worldwide news organizations particularly strong online, it struggles to this day with a diminished desire for straighter TV newscasts.

Robert Edward Turner III was born Nov. 19, 1938, in Cincinnati. When he was 9, his family moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he grew up. After being expelled from Brown University for sneaking a coed into his room, Turner came to Atlanta to work as an account executive for his domineering father’s billboard company, Turner Advertising.

After his father’s 1963 suicide, Turner took over the company. In 1970, he bought an independent UHF station with a weak signal that didn’t even cover Atlanta.

On Dec. 17, 1976, he began transmitting the station to cable systems around the country via satellite. It became the TBS SuperStation. “It was the start of something bigger than we ever imagined,” Turner said in 1996.

TBS’ motley collection of old movies and “The Andy Griffith Show” reruns was augmented by Turner’s acquisition of baseball’s Atlanta Braves. Perennial doormats, the Braves slowly attracted fans across the nation through their superstation exposure and in the 1980s began declaring themselves “America’s Team.”

Turner, who early on donned a uniform and managed one game, helped open baseball’s free-agent price wars by signing pitcher Andy Messersmith.

In the 1980s, Turner went deeply into debt to buy MGM, a move again greeted with skepticism.

But the acquisition gave his company a huge library of vintage movies that eventually were parlayed into the TNT and Turner Classic Movies networks. His devotion to older movies earned Turner a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004. He was also criticized for adding color to classic movies like “Casablanca,” which he said he did to make them appealing to a younger audience.

TBS also acquired the Hanna-Barbera animation library, which led to the launch of the Cartoon Network.

“He sees the obvious before most people do,” Bob Wright, former president and CEO of NBC, told The New Yorker in 2001. “We all look at the same picture, but Ted sees what you don’t see. And after he sees it, it becomes obvious to everybody.”

He revealed his ambitions as a younger man: “I used to tell people I wanted to become the world’s greatest sailor, businessman and lover all at the same time.”

Asked to share the secret to his success, he said: “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.”

For much of his life a partying roustabout who wooed beautiful women with a roguish charm, the lean, mustachioed sportsman married three times. He was married to Fonda from 1991 to 2001. She quit acting while married to Turner, but tired of his philandering and divorced him, although they remained friends.

“He was sexy. He was brilliant. He had 2 million acres by the time I left. It would have been easy to stay,” Fonda said of her relationship with Turner.

Turner had an unexpected friendship with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, bonding over hunting and arguments about politics over rum and cigars. A once bitter rival who compared Fox’s Murdoch to Adolf Hitler, they later reconciled over a mutual concern over the environment.

Turner built a sports empire, at one point owning professional baseball, basketball and hockey teams in Atlanta. He was best remembered at the helm of the Atlanta Braves, turning the doormats into postseason regulars by the 1990s.

Their stadium, built for the 1996 Olympics, was named Ted Turner Field. The Braves replaced it in 2016 with a newer stadium north of Atlanta.

Perhaps Turner’s greatest love was for the land. He acquired millions of acres in ranches complete with roaming buffalo and was Nebraska’s largest private landholder. He spoke often of reviving the West’s bison herds, and in 2002 started a restaurant chain serving bison burgers, Ted’s Montana Grill.

Researchers at Texas A&M University credited his donation of a few bulls in 2005 with helping increase the genetic diversity of the last herd of southern Plains bison.

He had a net worth of $2.5 billion in 2023, but had dropped off Forbes magazine’s ranking of the 400 richest Americans in 2021.

During a stock market bust, Turner’s net worth went from nearly $10 billion to about $2 billion in two-and-a-half years.

“To put this in perspective, I lost nearly $8 billion in 30 months,” he wrote in his autobiography, “Call Me Ted,” in 2008. “That means that, on average, my net worth dropped by about $67 million “per week,” or nearly $10 million “per day, every day, for two and a half years.”

He had enough time, and money, to devote to such lofty goals as promoting world peace and protecting the environment.

“See, my life is more an adventure than a quest to make money. Adventure is going out and doing something for the pure hell of it,” Turner once said. “You just want to see if you can do it, period. There’s no thought of gain other than your own satisfaction.”

Through the years, Turner’s antics occasionally overshadowed his business activities.

Fresh from skippering his boat “Courageous” to the America’s Cup title in 1977, a very inebriated Turner was captured by TV cameras stretched out on the floor at the victory celebration.

Turner managed to insult many with his shoot-from-the-lip style. An atheist since his only sister died of lupus at age 17, he called Christians “losers” and “Jesus-freaks,” later apologizing for both remarks.

He once suggested in a speech that unemployed Black people be used to haul mobile missiles with ropes “like the Egyptians building the pyramids.” After civil rights leaders demanded an apology, he said he was just joking.

Other times, his humor saved him from potentially awkward situations, like when he talked to an audience in Berlin in 1999.

“You know, you Germans had a bad century,” Turner said, according to The New Yorker. “You were on the wrong side of two wars. You were the losers. I know what that’s like. When I bought the Atlanta Braves, we couldn’t win, either. You guys can turn it around. You can start making the right choices. If the Atlanta Braves could do it, then Germany can do it.”

Turner, father of five children, grabbed a leadership role in American philanthropy with his Sept. 18, 1997, pledge to give $1 billion, or $100 million a year for 10 years, to United Nations charities. Even as Turner’s fortune shrank after the AOL Time Warner merger, he continued giving money to the U.N., calling it the best hope for peace.

He promoted a range of humanitarian causes. Turner joined former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn to start the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to reducing the threat of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Turner fretted publicly about the world’s problems.

“If I had to predict, the way things are going, I’d say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct in 50 years,” Turner said in 2003. “Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.”

As he poured millions into nonprofits on a global scale, Turner was also fond of spreading his wealth in small ways. He once gave $500 to a volunteer fire department that helped extinguish a blaze on one of his ranches. Another time he lent personal paintings for an exhibit at a Bozeman, Montana, museum.

Connecting the Dots:

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Ted Turner was a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and the founder of CNN.

Sam Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a U.S. Senator from Georgia.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Aspen Institute (think tank) and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Ted Lieu was honored with the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Great Immigrants Award, has represented California's 36th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2023 and is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Astrid S. Tuminez was a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is the 7th President of the Utah Valley University (Charlie Kirk Shooting).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Hisashi Owada is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Walter Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

James S. Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and Lester Crown’s son.

Lester Crown was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is James S. Crown’s father and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Newton N. Minow is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Newton N. Minow was a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank), the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Walter Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.

Ted Turner was the founder of CNN and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Sam Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a U.S. Senator from Georgia.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Astrid S. Tuminez was a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is the 7th President of the Utah Valley University (Charlie Kirk Shooting).

United Nations

Ted Turner was the chairman for the United Nations Foundation and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

ONE Campaign is a partner with the United Nations Foundation.

Michelle Obama was an advocate for the ONE Campaign.

Susan A. Buffett is a director at the ONE Campaign and Warren E. Buffett’s daughter.

Howard G. Buffett is a director at the ONE Campaign and Warren E. Buffett’s son.

International Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE Campaign.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and a friend of Michael Douglas.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Morton H. Halperin is a senior adviser for the Open Society Foundations, a director at the ONE Campaign and served with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Ted Lieu was honored with the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Great Immigrants Award, has represented California's 36th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2023 and is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Astrid S. Tuminez was a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is the 7th President of the Utah Valley University (Charlie Kirk Shooting).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Warren E. Buffett is an adviser at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father.

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a friend of George Soros.

Sam Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a U.S. Senator from Georgia.

Ted Turner was a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and the chairman for the United Nations Foundation.

ONE Campaign is a partner with the United Nations Foundation.

International Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE Campaign.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Kofi A. Annan was an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a director at the United Nations Foundation, a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the United Nations secretary general.

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Ted Lieu was honored with the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Great Immigrants Award, has represented California's 36th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2023 and is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Astrid S. Tuminez was a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is the 7th President of the Utah Valley University (Charlie Kirk Shooting).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Warren E. Buffett is an adviser at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father.

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a friend of George Soros.

Sam Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a U.S. Senator from Georgia.

Ted Turner was a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and the chairman for the United Nations Foundation.

ONE Campaign is a partner with the United Nations Foundation.

International Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE Campaign.

Green Cross International

Ted Turner was an honorary board member for Green Cross International and the founder of CNN.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the founder for the Green Cross International, the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), a general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation and the chair for the Roosevelt Institute.

Jonathan Soros is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, George Soros’s son and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

George Soros is Jonathan Soros’s father, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Walter Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.

Astrid S. Tuminez was a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is the 7th President of the Utah Valley University (Charlie Kirk Shooting).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Warren E. Buffett is an adviser at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father.

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a friend of George Soros.

Sam Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a U.S. Senator from Georgia.

Ted Turner was a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), an honorary board member for Green Cross International and the founder of CNN.

Global Green USA is a US affiliate for Green Cross International.

Patricia E. Mitchell is an honorary board member for Green Cross International, a board member for Global Green USA, the vice chair for the Sundance Institute and was the president of CNN Productions.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sundance Institute.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Robert Redford was the founder & president for the Sundance Institute and an honorary board member for Green Cross International.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation and the chair for the Roosevelt Institute.

Jonathan Soros is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, George Soros’s son and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

George Soros is Jonathan Soros’s father, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Walter Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.

Ted Turner was the founder of CNN, an honorary board member for Green Cross International and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Warren E. Buffett is an adviser at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father.

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a friend of George Soros.

Sam Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a U.S. Senator from Georgia.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Jane Fonda Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane

Ted Turner was married to Jane Fonda Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane, a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of CNN and an honorary board member for Green Cross International.

Jane Fonda Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane was married to Ted Turner & Tom Hayden.

Tom Hayden was married to Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane and an editorial board member for The Nation.

Stephen F. Cohen was a contributing editor for The Nation, a friend of Mikhail Gorbachev and married to Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Mikhail Gorbachev was a friend of Stephen F. Cohen, the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), a general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation and the chair for the Roosevelt Institute.

Jonathan Soros is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, George Soros’s son and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

George Soros is Jonathan Soros’s father, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute.

Katrina vanden Heuvel was a governor for the Roosevelt Institute, is a director at the Roosevelt Institute, the editor & publisher for The Nation, married to Stephen F. Cohen.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Walter Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for Aspen Institute (think tank), the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Ted Turner was a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), married to Jane Fonda Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane, the founder of CNN and an honorary board member for Green Cross International.

Warren E. Buffett is an adviser at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father.

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a friend of George Soros.

Sam Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a U.S. Senator from Georgia.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Walter Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.

Ted Sarandos is a fellow at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and the chief content officer for Netflix Inc.

Charles H. Giancarlo was a director at Netflix Inc. and is a managing director for Silver Lake.

Silver Lake Kraftwerk Fund is a fund for Silver Lake and a partner at Soros Fund Management.

George Soros is the founder of Soros Fund Management and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sundance Institute.

Robert Redford was the founder & president for the Sundance Institute and an honorary board member for Green Cross International.

Ted Turner was an honorary board member for Green Cross International, a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of CNN and married to Jane Fonda Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane.

Lyn Davis Lear is a trustee at the Sundance Institute and married to Norman Lear.

Kenneth D. Cole is a trustee at the Sundance Institute and married to Maria Cuomo Cole.

Maria Cuomo Cole is married to Kenneth D. Cole and a trustee at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.

Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is a national partner with the America Votes.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.

Cecile Richards was the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the founder & president of America Votes, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America a grant overseer for the Turner Foundation.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and People for the American Way.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Ted Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the chairman for the Turner Foundation, an honorary board member for Green Cross International and the founder of CNN.

Norman Lear is a director at People for the American Way and married to Lyn Davis Lear.

People for the American Way is a national partner with America Votes.

Cecile Richards was the founder & president of America Votes, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America a grant overseer for the Turner Foundation.

Ted Turner was the chairman for the Turner Foundation, a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), an honorary board member for Green Cross International and the founder of CNN.

Turner Foundation

Ted Turner was the chairman for the Turner Foundation, an honorary board member for Green Cross International, the founder of CNN and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Cecile Richards was a grant overseer for the Turner Foundation, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the founder & president of America Votes.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for People for the American Way.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.

People for the American Way is a national partner with America Votes.

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is a national partner with America Votes.

Association of Trial Lawyers of America is a national partner with America Votes.

EMILY's List is a national partner with America Votes.

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is a national partner with America Votes.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters is a national partner with America Votes.

League of Conservation Voters is a national partner with America Votes.

League of Young Voters is a national partner with America Votes.

National Council of La Raza is a national partner with America Votes.

National Education Association is a national partner with America Votes.

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a national partner with America Votes.

Kirk Adams is the international EVP for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), married to Cecile Richards and was an organizing director for the AFL-CIO.

AFL-CIO is a national partner with America Votes.

Martin Frost was the president for America Votes and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.

George Soros is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Cecile Richards was the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the founder & president of America Votes and a grant overseer for the Turner Foundation.

Germany

Ted Turner was a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and the founder of CNN.

Warren E. Buffett is an adviser at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father.

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a friend of George Soros.

Sam Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a U.S. Senator from Georgia.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Walter Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.

David M. Rubenstein was a benefactor for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and a director at the American Council on Germany.

Paul A. Volcker was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and

an honorary vice chairman for the American Council on Germany.

Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a director at the American Council on Germany, a trustee emeritus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Islamic art Met Museum committee is a visiting committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met Gala).

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Rozanne L. Ridgway was a co-chair for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and a U.S. ambassador for Germany.

Richard R. Burt is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and was a U.S. ambassador for Germany.

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Astrid S. Tuminez was a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is the 7th President of the Utah Valley University (Charlie Kirk Shooting).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Warren E. Buffett is an adviser at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father.

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a friend of George Soros.

Sam Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a U.S. Senator from Georgia.

Ted Turner was a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and the founder of CNN.

Kappa Sigma

Ted Turner was a member of Kappa Sigma, the founder of CNN and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Sonny Perdue is a member of Kappa Sigma and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

Frances Fragos Townsend is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and a commentator for CNN.

Walter Isaacson was the chairman & CEO for CNN and is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Astrid S. Tuminez was a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is the 7th President of the Utah Valley University (Charlie Kirk Shooting).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and a member of the Bohemian Club.

George H.W. Bush was a member of the Bohemian Club and a member of the Burning Tree Club.

Edward R. Murrow was a member of the Burning Tree Club and a member of Kappa Sigma.

Robert Redford was a member of Kappa Sigma, an honorary board member for Green Cross International and the founder & president for the Sundance Institute.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sundance Institute and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Astrid S. Tuminez was a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is the 7th President of the Utah Valley University (Charlie Kirk Shooting).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Warren E. Buffett is an adviser at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father.

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a friend of George Soros.

Sam Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a U.S. Senator from Georgia.

Ted Turner was a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), a member of Kappa Sigma, the founder of CNN, an honorary board member for Green Cross International and married to Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane.

Stephen F. Cohen was a friend of Mikhail Gorbachev, married to Katrina vanden Heuvel and a contributing editor for The Nation.

Tom Hayden was an editorial board member for The Nation and married to Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane.

Jane Fonda Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane was married to Ted Turner & Tom Hayden.

Katrina vanden Heuvel was married to Stephen F. Cohen, a governor for the Roosevelt Institute, is the editor & publisher for The Nation and a director at the Roosevelt Institute.

Jonathan Soros is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, George Soros’s son and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

George Soros is Jonathan Soros’s father, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the chair for the Roosevelt Institute and an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.

Mikhail Gorbachev was an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation, a friend of Stephen F. Cohen, the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), a general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the founder for the Green Cross International.

Ted Turner was an honorary board member for Green Cross International, married to Jane Fonda Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane, the founder of CNN and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Texas A&M University

Ted Turner was credited for his donation at the Texas A&M University of a few bulls in 2005 with helping increase the genetic diversity of the last herd of southern Plains bison, the founder of CNN and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Astrid S. Tuminez was a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is the 7th President of the Utah Valley University (Charlie Kirk Shooting).

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the Center for American Progress and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Center for American Progress.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Center for American Progress.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a supporter for the Center for American Progress and an advisory board member for the Earth Institute.

Lawrence H. Summers is a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and Kenneth J. Arrow’s nephew.

Kenneth J. Arrow is Lawrence H. Summers’s uncle and an advisory board member for the Earth Institute.

Norman E. Borlaug was an advisory board member for the Earth Institute and a professor at Texas A&M University.

Resources: Past Research

Waterkeeper Alliance (Past Research on Ted Turner)

Sunday, June 8, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/06/waterkeeper-alliance.html

"Giving Machines" arrive in NYC to kick off the holiday season (Connecting the Dots: CARE, Michelle Nunn, Sam Nunn, Obama, The ONE Campaign & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Sam Nunn, the United Nations Foundation, Ted Turner & the ONE Campaign)

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/11/giving-machines-arrive-in-nyc-to-kick.html

Met Gala 2026: Activists leave nearly 300 ‘bottles of urine’ in protest of Bezos’ involvement (Connecting the Dots: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met Gala), Jeff Bezo, Amazon, The Breakthrough Energy Coalition, CNN & The Carnegie/Soros Network) (Past Research on CNN & the Carnegie Corporation of New York)

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2026/05/met-gala-2026-activists-leave-nearly.html

GM Expects $500 Million Tariff Refund After Court Ruling (Connecting the Dots: Mary Barra, General Motors, Catalyst, Mexico, John G. Roberts Jr., The Supreme Court, Commercial Club of Chicago, The Economic Club of Washington & The Carnegie/Soros Network) (Past Research on the Carnegie Corporation of New York)

Sunday, May 3, 2026

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2026/05/gm-expects-500-million-tariff-refund.html

Sen. Warren Presses Amazon on Algorithmic Pricing for Schools (Connecting the Dots: Senator Elizabeth Warren, Ganesh Sitaraman, The Center for American Progress, Amazon, HUD, The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, The Urban Institute, The U.S. Department of Education & The Carnegie/Soros Network) (Past Research on the Carnegie Corporation New York)

Thursday, March 12, 2026

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2026/03/sen-warren-presses-amazon-on.html

Minneapolis-Area Hotels Shut Down Over Safety Issues (Connecting the Dots: Hilton, Crown Family, Commercial Club of Chicago, Aspen Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on the Lester Crown & the Commercial Club of Chicago)

Monday, January 26, 2026

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2026/01/minneapolis-area-hotels-shut-down-over.html

Dr. Morton Halperin – J Street Education Fund (Connecting the Dots: J Street, Morton Halperin, The Open Society Foundations, Newsmax’s Mark Halperin, Rhonda (Randi) Weingarten, The ONE Campaign, MSNBC, ACLU, The Carnegie & Soros Funding) (Past Research on the ONE Campaign & Morton Halperin)

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/06/dr-morton-halperin-j-street-education.html

“Tear Down This Wall” (Connecting the Dots: Mikhail Gorbachev, Wheelchair Foundation, Roosevelt Institute, Green Cross International, Global Green USA & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Green Cross International)

Monday, January 6, 2025

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/01/tear-down-this-wall-connecting-dots.html

2025 Sundance Film Festival (Connecting the Dots: Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford, The Sundance Institute, America Votes, Mikhail Gorbachev, The Green Cross International & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Sundance Institute & America Votes)

Sunday, March 2, 2025

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/03/2025-sundance-film-festival-connecting.html

America Votes (Past Research on America Votes)

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/11/america-votes.html

Uproar as German Lawmaker Proposes Observance of Muslim Public Holidays (Past Research on the American Council on Germany, the Islamic art Met Museum committee, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank))

Monday, October 16, 2017

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/10/uproar-as-german-lawmaker-proposes.html

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2026/05/met-gala-2026-activists-leave-nearly.html

Istook: Democrat Will Be 'Sacrificial Lamb' for Coburn Seat (Past Research on Kappa Sigma)

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/01/istook-democrat-will-be-sacrificial.html

Qatar’s Billion-Dollar Influence At Texas A&M Under Scrutiny (Connecting the Dots: Qatar, The Qatar Foundation, Texas A&M University, Hamas, The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Texas A&M University)

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/04/qatars-billion-dollar-influence-at.html