Images from Oprah's first 24 years on TV
A women on crutches waits on a chair in line outside Harpo Studios for a live broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show has their picture taken Friday.
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Talk show host Oprah Winfrey arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, in this March 24, 2002.
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Comedian and author Bill Cosby leans against talk show host Oprah Winfrey as he sits on the floor during taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Monday, Oct. 15, 2001.
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In this Sunday, Dec. 9, 2008 file photo, then Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama,D-Ill., with his wife Michelle, left, and Oprah Winfrey, right, take part in a campaign rally at Williams Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C.
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Oprah Winfrey is shown in this 1996 file photo. Reform Party members were talking about President Oprah Winfrey. Party members from Minnesota created a Web site to draft Winfrey for the 2000 presidential race.
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Oprah Winfrey welcomes golf pro Tiger Woods back to her talk show Friday, Oct. 5, 2001.
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Oprah Winfrey in the movie "The Color Purple"
In this Dec. 18, 1985 file photo, television talk show host Oprah Winfrey puts her feet up as she relaxes in her studio office following a morning broadcast in Chicago.
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Oprah Winfrey reacts to applause as she is introduced in Philadelphia, in this Nov. 18, 2003 file photo, where she received the Marian Anderson Award. Winfrey retained her title this year as America's favorite TV personality. (AP Photo)
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In this Sept. 9, 2004 file photo, talk show host Oprah Winfrey sits atop a Pontiac G6 outside her Chicago studios, surrounded by some of the 276 people from her audience who each received one of the new cars.
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Oprah Winfrey and first-time guest David Letterman share a laugh on the first show of her 22nd season held at WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden on Monday,Sept. 10, 2007, in New York.
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1988 file photo, television talk show host Oprah Winfrey shows off her new figure as she stands in front of 68 pounds of fat inside a toy wagon, in Chicago.
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In this March 14, 1997 file photo provided by Touchstone Television, Ellen DeGeneres, left, playing character Ellen Morgan, discusses her fears about coming out as a lesbian with her therapist, played by Oprah Winfrey, during a taping of the sitcom "Ellen."
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Irish rock star Bono, left, sports lipstick from talk show host Oprah Winfrey during taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2002.
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This photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 shows talk-show host Oprah Winfrey with former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her daughters, Willow, right, and Piper, left, during the taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in Chicago.
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Oprah Winfrey reports for jury duty with an escort of Sheriff's Deputies in 2004 through a side entrance at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building at 26th and California.
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Oprah Winfrey appears with David Letterman during a taping of "The Late Show with David Letterman", Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005, in New York, after Oprah presented Letterman with a framed photograph.
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A group of women in line outside Harpo Studios for a live broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show has their picture taken Friday.
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A studio audience lines up outside Harpo Studios for a live broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show Friday.
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In this Sept. 8, 2009 file photo, Oprah Winfrey, right, hosts Black Eyed Peas in Chicago while taping an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on a three-block stretch of Chicago's Michigan Avenue near the Chicago River.
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Actor John Travolta hugs Oprah Winfrey during a taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2001, in Chicago.
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Oprah Winfrey appears with David Letterman during a taping of on "The Late Show with David Letterman", Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005, in New York.
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