From Deseret News archives:
Reporter's beat was LDS leaders
For nearly three decades, Cardall brought church leaders into the living rooms of their followers. He covered the church for KSL-TV, following presidents around the world, interviewing and observing them during a time when the church grew from 3 million members to 12 million.
You could do worse than getting a seat next to Cardall at general conference. The stories he could and did tell could fill a book, which is why Deseret Book has asked him to write one. (So far, he has declined.) He could whisper some interesting anecdotes in your ear during the slow parts of general conference this weekend (not that there are slow parts!).
Cardall has been embraced by President Spencer W. Kimball. He has stood side by side with President Gordon B. Hinckley in a soldiers' graveyard and watched tears roll down his cheeks. He observed Ezra Taft Benson tell Donny Osmond to get a haircut. He has seen things he says he can't tell because he considers them sacred.
They ran him ragged as he followed them around the world to some 55 nations. "It was exhausting," he says. A full night's sleep was rare, what with the demands of travel and the limits of the technology at the time. He had to rely on airline pilots to take his film to Salt Lake City from wherever he happened to be in the world at the time.
There isn't room here to do his experiences justice, but Cardall, now editorial director of KSL, riffs through the memories during a brief conversation. He once accompanied President Hinckley on a visit to his ancestral home in England and while they gazed out at the sea together the church leader told him, "You ought to go up the road to Gravesend and do a story on Pocahontas. She was buried there."
Says Cardall, "The Disney movie on Pocahontas was just about to be released. He knew there would be interest in that at the time. He's very much aware of contemporary culture and society. I wound up doing a story on Pocahontas."
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