read and as long as people understand history. so i'm honored to be with you. >> thank you, david. >> for more of our conversation, subscribe to "the axe files" on your favorite podcast app. the following is a cnn special report. ♪ who thought the word needed 24/7 news? >> i did. >> he changed tv news forever. >> most of my colleagues thought ted was nuts. >> sailing, media, environment. united nations. >> good round number, you know. >> you know, the changed the world. >> yeah, i know. >> they called him captain outrageous and the mouth of the

south. >> there is no cut off between the brain and mouth with ted. >> ted was a little unorthodox and a little unpredictable. >> he built a media empire. he won the america's cup. >> got to go as fast as you can here. >> the world series. >> he put the braves organization on the map. >> and the heart of jane fonda. >> i will never love anyone like i love him. >> before his world came crashing down. >> it's been a very painful experience, obviously. >> a journey like no other. >> the fact that he was taking off that focus allowed him to go to the next important phase of his life. the third act.

♪ >> there they are, some of them. >> you notice, all of them are the same distance apart from the others. >> why is that? >> well, i was hoping you could tell me. >> this is where ted's next chapter begins. on one of his 27 properties, spanning 2 million acres. >> okay, guys. they're talking a little too much for me. >> what he has done is staggering. he's created a template for what men and women who own large tracts of land can do. to save nature, to save wildlife. >> new priorities. new ventures. >> you cannot take a business person like my father and just saddle him into a stall. he just doesn't do well sitting

around. >> i don't know how to quit. it's not in my genes. >> surprisingly, the mouth of the south, robert edward turner iii was born in cincinnati, ohio. the eldest child of robert and florence. >> he was beautiful. he was just loved beyond all else. >> there was a vacant lot, a hollow down the street with virgin trees in it and a little creek ran through it. i would catch crayfish and put them in a jar. >> mischief was always around the corner. >> yes, yes. mischief, yes. >> we got a call from the house saying, grandma mccoy in the middle of the night walked into her bathroom and screamed, oh, my gosh. ted brought an alligator and put it in the bathtub. >> but there was also trouble at the turner household.

ted's dad was a good provider but had violent mood swings. >> your dad spanked you with a razor strap. >> a razor strap and a wire coat hanger. >> he would hit you like that? >> yeah. but on the behind. i mean, it wasn't dangerous or anything like that. it just hurt like the devil. >> but it hurt. >> yeah. >> i was aware that he was treated harshly intermittently. and i had no idea what to do about it or what to make of it. it is that age. but i was sort of troubled by it. >> when his dad joined the navy, ted was shipped off to boarding school at the age of four. >> well, ill never forget, it was our second date. he told me about his childhood. he turned and looked at me and he said, why are you crying? because tears were pouring down my face.

because i knew what it meant in terms of his development, as a person, to have had such a really, really difficult early life. >> after the war ended, ted's dad relocated the family to savannah, georgia. he bought a small billboard company and renamed it turner advertising. he insisted ted not yet a teenager, learn the business. >> i worked a full 40-hour week. when i was out of school in the summer. the first year when i was 12 years old, he paid me 10 cents an hour. >> tensions grew between father and son and the family fell apart when ted's sister, mary jean, passed away after a long battle with lupus at age 17. her death tested ted's faith. >> at one point i was going to

be a missionary. >> when you say a missionary, i've known you for a while. religion is not something i associated with ted turner. >> no. my faith was shaken when my sister got sick. she was sick for five years before she passed away. and it just -- it seemed so unfair because she didn't do anything wrong. christianity didn't give me the answer to that. so my faith got shaken somewhat. i still pray a little bit. >> ted found solace on the water. where he developed a love for sailing. by age 11 he was competing in the junior regatta of the savannah yacht club. his parents divorced after his sister's death and his relationship with his father remained strained. when ted was accepted to brown university his dad berated him for not getting into harvard. he sent ted a letter that still haunts him today. >> my dear son, i'm appalled. even horrified, that you have

adopted classics as a major. as a matter of fact, i almost puked on the way home today. i think you are rapidly becoming a jackass, devotedly, dad. >> what goes through your mind? >> well, i disagreed with him. i -- respectfully. >> his father stopped paying tuition. >> how much after this letter did you drop out of brown? >> oh, about a year. when i ran out of money. >> his father really wanted ted to come work for him. you know, to continue the dynasty. >> coming up, the dark legacy of ted's father. >> he went against everything that he taught me. ♪

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in 1960, ted turner left college and his father couldn't have been more pleased. >> he thought i was wasting my time. >> so you leave brown, and you go into your dad's billboard business. >> right. >> ted was a natural from the beginning. and his dad quickly made him manager of the company's macon, georgia branch. >> he was running the billboard company there. building more billboards, selling more billboards. making lots of money for his father and for the company. >> already one of the biggest billboard companies in the south, ed turner took a risk to make it the biggest. he borrowed $4 million, bought out his largest competitor and then, lost his nerve. >> he had kind of a nervous breakdown. >> fear of defaulting on the loan consumed him.

>> and he went against everything that he taught me, you know. be courageous and hang in there. and so, it really shook me. a couple days later, he killed himself. >> ed turner shot himself in his bathtub in march 1963. the loss left a void ted has felt ever since. >> are you the man you are today, at least in part, because of your father? >> sure, sure. one of the things he told me, he said, set your goals so high that you can't achieve them in your lifetime. >> so he really worked hard to try to instill in you that same kind of competitive goal? >> yeah. and he did a good job of it.

>> and yet, to this day, ted has conflicted feelings about his father. the man who inflicted so much pain, was also his mentor. >> when that happened, it was like losing his best friend. and i think that that's one of the things that has driven him like a mad man. >> it was very important to ted, even when his dad was alive, to try to please him. >> but to please his dad, ted had to do everything his father's way. >> if his dad had not killed himself, he would still be working for my grandfather and his grandfather would not have let him do anything new or innovative. >> but now ted could be as innovative as he wanted. ed turner left his 24-year-old son $1 million in assets and complete control in the company. >> after the funeral, i just went to work even harder. to try and get it behind me.

>> ted had been married for four years. and his hectic schedule was taking a toll on his young family. >> ted was married to his first wife, had two children. but you know, he spent all his time, working, trying to save the company, build the company. so it didn't work out. >> divorced, then remarried, ted eventually had three more kids. but wasn't much of a family man. >> dad really wasn't around very much. he was either off sailing or he was building his empire. >> he's not really good at atta-boys. you know, i don't think my dad told me he loved me until i was 30. >> yet ted always wanted the best for his family. even if that meant a change of scenery. >> my father got us out of atlanta. when we were preteens, getting to the age where diversions come along and so he thought it would be good for us to be raised in the country.

so we picked up and moved to south carolina to hope plantation. >> life at the plantation was challenging. >> of course when we lived there, there was no air conditioning. no showers. just bathtubs. it was living in an old farm house in the woods. >> they pulled pig weeds. they painted the barn. he gave them machete knives and he went out there to chop down poison oak and poison ivy. >> we were raised in a very frugal manner. dad always said he didn't get rich from wasting money. >> dad had a way of making everything an adventure. at home, we had our cougars, and then two black bear, yogi and boo boo. >> my dad's never been one to shy away from danger. he would send us to the buffalo pasture to run the buffalo up to front so the guests could see them. like, who does that.

>> while his family lived in south carolina, ted worked tirelessly at his company's head quarters in atlanta. to expand his billboard business, he soon acquired several radio stations and then, a small local tv station. wattle a risky decision? >> yeah. because i didn't have any background. i put everything i had into the one television station in atlanta. >> i don't have enough speed. >> in his free time, he put everything he had into sailing. the sport he loved since childhood. >> that was my sport. i concentrated on it. i worked really hard at becoming a champion in sailing. >> and the holy grail of championship sailing was the america's cup. >> it took him from 1958 to 1977 to do it. but he had a heavy focus and didn't let anybody get in the

way of that. >> he got crushed in the america's cup in 1974. so it was kind of the ultimate comeback for him. >> it is close. it's always close. >> the year was 1977. ted took the helm and navigated his team to victory after nearly two decades in the sport. his yacht, aptly named "courageous," totally dominated its competition. winning every race in best out of seven series. >> we finally won. big hoopla, thousands of boats coming in, thousands of people on the shoreline. champagne everywhere. and ted turns to me in the middle of the melee and said, hey, wasn't that fun? then he said, this will change your lives. because we have proven to people, that if we can do this, we can do many other things. >> when we return -- ted turner changes the landscape of tv news forever.

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bigger, better, bolder. ted turner had significantly grown his business. won sailing's most prestigious

race, and bought a bankrupt tv station. >> it was a broken down uhf television station in atlanta. television at its basest form. >> hello, i'm bill teish. >> what next? using that little station to launch a huge idea. >> he began to tell me about how he was going to transform uhf television into this new world of satellite television. >> we changed the name of turner communications to the turner broadcasting system. >> ted renamed the nation wtbs. it became the nation's first superstation. and was one of the first channels of what would evolve into a cable universe with thousands more. >> this is wtbs, atlanta, georgia. >> in the early days of the superstation, programming still was at a premium. and we didn't have as much as we needed. >> and that programming didn't give the small station the national footprint ted wanted.

his solution -- buy a baseball team. ♪ if we can't do it, nobody can ♪ the braves broadcast nationwide on tbs became america's team. >> come see the big league team with little league spirit. hey, we're in atlanta. >> we didn't see the future like ted did. innovative businessmen create markets. >> soup station tbs. >> he created one by putting us on tv. he knew eventually we would play better baseball but we need to get this product out there and play that market. >> when we bought them in 1976, they were terrible. we finished last many more times than finishing first in baseball. >> but ted could even make the best even out after bad situation. >> ted came into the clubhouse and why you would across the room, murph, don't worry about that slump you're in. you're saving me hundreds of

thousands of dollars in our networks negotiation. i said, wait, that's not how it works, ted. >> from the clubhouse, ted was there. he even put on the uniform and managed the team for a day. >> i figure this is a good time for me to figure out what goes down here on the field. >> i think he might have had the shortest career as a manager that managed the game. >> from 1991 the team has gone from worst to first. four years later, they were world series champs. >> when they won, i'll just never forget. it was one of the great highs of our time together. >> as ted built his super station, he was dreaming up an even bigger idea, a 24-hour news channel. >> this news service will be called the cable news network. >> i work until 7:00. and when i got home, the news was over. so i missed television news completely. and i figured there were lots of people like me. >> you can do so much more in 24

hours than you can in 24 minutes. >> you've had this maverick down in atlanta, georgia, who decided he was going to provide news around the clock, 24 hours a day. not just at 6:00 when cronkite or the others would be coming on with the evening news. >> we're a live worldwide news network. >> we had no background in news. but it was plainly a major genre in cable television that was missing. >> you can see our new cable television news headquarters. 90,000 square feet of the future. >> most thought the idea was crazy. >> people did look upon that as a foolish idea that was destined for failure. but they underestimated ted turner. >> we signed on on june 1. and barring satellite problems in the future, we won't be signing off until the world ends. we will cover it live.

>> ted had 11 months to get the station on the air. >> we had no bureaus, no cameras, no cameramen, no employees. not a single one. when we signed on, we had bureaus in tokyo, moscow, the whole deal. >> i dedicate the news channel for america, the cable news network. >> stand by. >> on june 1st, 1980, cnn aired its first broadcast. >> good evening, i'm david walker. >> i'm lois hart. now here's the news. >> it took five years and $250 million. before cnn turned a corner financially. and ted was working around the clock to make it happen. >> i lived for 20 years in my office. >> which was right in the cnn building. >> right. i lived on a couch in my office

the first ten years. >> he was one of us. i mean, he would be in his house coat down having breakfast in the hard news cafe. >> despite his efforts, critics called cnn chicken noodle news. >> i'll just go ahead and talk about some sports right now. >> and the white house would not even issue cnn press credentials. >> lift off of the 25th -- >> even so, from the start, ted knew what he wanted. >> oh, my goodness. >> ted didn't care as much about ratings as he did about being the most trusted name in news. >> and being a network that had truly global impact. >> what he was doing was going to affect every state in the nation and every nation in the world. >> cnn took turner to cuba, to

meet fidel castro. >> he convinced castro to open a cnn bureau there. >> and even in the soviet union where ted created the goodwill games. >> maybe in a short period of time, this will be kind of a blueprint for how we can go about ending the arms race. that's certainly my dream. >> the games lasted for 16 years and helped thaw u.s. relations with the russians. >> i think that broke a lot of ice and was a factor in ending the cold car. >> coming up -- >> we're going back to baghdad. >> as the cold war ended, another war would put cnn on the map. >> you can hear the bombs hitting the center of the city. copd makes it hard to breathe.

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there may be no state of the union tonight. >> by the mid '80s, the little network that could was ready for expansion. >> shut up in here! >> open their mikes. >> so ted transformed an aging hotel complex in atlanta into cnn center. >> hey. >> and that wasn't all. >> we are ready to go to your phone calls. we start in austin, texas. >> ted managed to land a talk show host named larry king. >> one name out of the blue ted calls me and said, listen, we

would like to have you come to cnn. i had never seen cnn. >> that wasn't the only obstacle. larry already had a job. and ted wanted him to start at cnn just four days later. >> they called the show "larry king live." i knew ten minutes into that show, ten minutes talking to mario cuomo, that show was going to make it. ted saw that. ted saw that. >> cnn was growing. >> here's looking at you, kid. >> so was the rest of ted's empire. he bought mgm's entire library of films, including his favorite movie "gone with the wind". >> frankly my dear, i don't give a damn. >> then launched tnt, a network that would air them. after that -- cartoon network. turner classic movies. and networks in latin-america, asia, europe, and the middle east. ted's next conquest would be personal.

>> he told me that he had just heard that jane fonda was getting a divorce from her husband and he was thinking of asking her for a date. >> though the ink was barely dry on her divorce papers, ted made a move. >> i heard this booming voice, is it true? i said, is what true? you and hayden, are you divorcing? yes. he said, you want to go out? >> she said, i'm devastated and i don't want to talk about going out. >> i said, i'm in the middle of a nervous breakdown. call me in six months. i thought, this guy is crazy. this is not what i want to hear right now. >> i called her six months to the day. she agreed to have dinner with me. it was love at first sight. >> the love birds tied the knot at avalon plantation, ted's property outside monticello,

florida. >> i will. [ laughter ] >> my friends would meet him and get to know him and they would say, he's like a little boy. and it's wonderful and loving and you know, you can't help but love it. but there's also a sadness to it. >> a sadness jane knew too well. she too had lost a parent to suicide. and lived through a difficult childhood. >> among the many things he taught me was to laugh. i come from a family that's a bit on the depressive side. and jane helped teach ted be more involved as a father. >> i spoke to him about my own regrets about not being a better parent. i tried to model for him. >> including at christmas. >> i had seen home movies of earlier christmases that were

really not so fun, that were pretty tense. >> let's put them in the other room, please. run the tv games upstairs, okay, not downstairs. goodbye. >> he had three kids in military college. very buttoned up. a semblance of order. when jane came along, there wasn't this order any more. she knew more about us than our dad knew about it. she did her homework. >> our time together was a happy time for everybody. it was kind of like camelot. >> ted's family life was thriving. and business was booming. when he hired a los angeles times publisher to run cnn. >> i worked for some really some unbelievably powerful people. ted rattles my cage. >> i need amman, i need saudi arabia, i need the white house. >> things were about to get even more intense.

>> no, put it on the air! >> it was my second day on the job when saddam hussein invaded kuwait. >> war was imminent. >> the united states strongly condemns the iraqi military invasion of kuwait. >> the white house urged all news outlets to pull personnel out of the war zone. >> i told the president that we had freedom of the press in the united states and i was -- as long as i had volunteers that would stay, i was going to leave them there. >> cnn's baghdad boys were still on the front lines, even when the war started. >> the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. >> we went on the air, and i was getting reaction from the pentagon to what they were -- they were all watching cnn. on january 16, 1991, for the first time in history, a war began live on television and it was only on cnn. >> you will hear the bombs now. they are hitting the center of the city. >> i still believe that that was the greatest scoop in the

history of journalism. >> to this day. >> to this day. >> ten years after launching, cnn had become the most trusted news outlet in the world. >> this is cnn. >> and ted was "time" magazine's man of the year. >> and i was only one of two people whose ever been on the cover of "time" magazine for one thing, and on the cover of "sports illustrated" for another. >> did it ever enter your mind that you would have this enormous success? >> i'm sure i must have thought about it. dreamed about it. >> becoming a billionaire? >> certainly before it happened, i knew it was going to, because momentum was there. >> the momentum was there. in 1996, ted sold his media empire for $8 billion. and became the largest shareholder of time warner, the biggest communications company in the world.

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by the mid '90s, ted sold his beloved cable empire to time warner. he was beyond rich. but stripped of power. >> in hindsight i think it was a mistake. >> ted had a new boss. time warner ceo gerald levin. >> high fives today. >> the two appears on cnn the day they made the deal. >> ted isn't going anywhere. he's going to be the largest shareholder of time warner. he will become the vice chairman. >> ted relinquished his role the best he could. >> everything went fine until we merged with aol. >> talk of a merger came in the

1990s. the dot com was booming. online companies were cashing in. time warner execs wanted in on the action. ted initially pushed back. >> even though he had a significant stake and should have been listened to i don't think he was listened to. >> in his deepest self, he knew it was wrong. >> this really is a historic moment. >> it was the biggest corporate merger ever. a $160 billion deal. but no one could predict the burst of the dot com bubble months later. aol fell flat and the stock price took a nose dive. >> we were present for the greatest business debacle in the history of american business. >> investors lost more than $150 billion and ted, time warner's biggest individual stockholder took a beating. >> your net worth goes from 10 billion to 2 billion. in around the same time as -- >> it actually went closer down to $1 billion.

by then i had given the billion dollars to the u.n. >> time warner executives restructured the company. ted was shut out. >> they offered me an extension on my contract. at $1 million a year and i said, what are my duties going to be. they said, you won't have any duties. >> ted got shafted, and it hurt. the idea that the guy who built all of it was no longer responsible for overseeing it, mind boggling. >> you were quoted as saying, for the first time in my life, i had been fired. >> that's right. >> none of us in our wildest dreams in that moment knew it could end like it did. >> it's been very painful experience obviously. because i really loved the company. >> to make matters worse, during the tumultuous merger, ted had been dealing with even more pain. the death of his marriage. >> jane fonda says to you, i want a divorce. >> yeah. >> oh, yeah. it was a -- with everything --

everything considered, it was a tough, tough time. >> i would say for the first eight years it was great. you know, ted is an exciting person and very funny. and very wise. but we always were moving. we lived out of suitcases. i kept saying to him, we need to slow down. >> jane gave ted an ultimatum. settle down or lose her. >> and he couldn't do it. if ted were ted but without the need to have my constant presence, we would still be together. there's no question about it. >> after ten years of marriage, ted and jane divorced in 2001. it was like a knife in ted's heart. >> terminating our marriage was a very difficult thing to do. >> and it was very, very sad. because we loved each other and

i remember when we got the kids together and he announced that we were separating and -- and there were tears, yeah. >> i love her very much. and i always -- i always will. >> ted was inconsolable. his family worried about his state of mind. >> the fact that, you know, he lost jane and he lost the company all at one time -- i can't even go to that bad place. >> i actually called dad and, you know, told him, be strong. the family loves him so much. just for being better than his father. but don't disappoint yourself by taking this any further, deeper darker. >> that dark scary place, that had pushed his father to the edge. >> that was always an option for ted turner. one very dark night out here, he contemplated, what is it worth to live one's life.

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. i watched cnn all the time. it's about the only thing i watch. i'm not happy with every bit of it, but i watch it. >> he's gone, but he's still trying to run the show. >> and i think we made a mistake taking the ticker off the sports -- >> it was more than just a company to me, it was a way of life. >> that's my penthouse up on the roof. and then that's my office right under my home. >> do you own this whole building is this. >> i bought it.

>> you see cnn out of your kitchen over here. >> that's right. i moved two blocks away so i could look out the window. i joked, i said if you need me, just put up a white flag and i'll be over there in five minutes. >> two decades later, still traumatized about losing his baby. the network he built. >> this is cnn. >> i would have voted strongly against the merger with aol. it's all right, i can take it. it was kind of a blessing in disguise. >> now he can focus on what he wants to do. it sounds cliche, but save the planet. >> the media tie tan who pioneered 24/7 tv news devoted himself full-time to his lifelong passions, the environment and philanthropy. >> i'm going to be a fundraiser to raise more money so everybody that's rich in the world, expect a call or a letter from me because i'm coming after you to

get money for the u.n. >> he shot to fame in the charity world 21 years ago when he made a shocking and historic billion dollar pledge to the united nations, creating the u.n. foundation. >> came in the dining room and ted was way over in the other corner and he yells out, hey, worth, you want to run this foundation? ted immediately had in mind that he wanted to focus on at least two issues, women's reproductive health and population. >> in 2001 dead created the nuclear threat initiative. >> he thinks everybody's his responsibility. >> he enlisted senator sam nunn to join him in the weapons of mass destruction. >> making sure we have everything in place to secure nuclear materials. >> and over the years his own turner foundation has awarded countless grants. >> ted has allowed us to give over $363 million in order to

make this world a better place, clean air, clean water. >> congratulations, ted and laura. >> on the phone. >> ted's five children are the trustees of the foundation. >> dad calls it his turnerverse. >> his legacy is his kids, for sure. >> as he's aging, he wants to know that he will go out with the love of his children and his grandchildren. that may not always have been important to him, but it's important to him now and so he's doing what he needs to do. >> east he's a great grandfather as well as a father. >> we love you grandpa. >> love you grandpa. >> we go out and look at the wolfs in montana and grandpa will howl at the wolfs and they'll howl back.

>> at the flying d, ted's ranch near boseman, montana he zeroed in on what he thought was missing from his land. >> why do you love the bison so much? >> well, because it's a native american animal and there were no cattle here when white man came. time to restore the native ecosystem. >> ted has made it his mission to save endangered wildlife, like the bison. he started the turner endangered species fund to make it work. >> the whole idea is to put wild populations back in place. there's nobody out there doing this kind of stuff. >> we've grown our bison herd to a fairly significant amount, but also it's been profitable. and ted had that in mind at the outset. >> what ted had in mind was a business venture that could ensure their survival, restaurants that feature bison.

>> by making them commercial, there's a reason for ranchers to have them. once we do that the gene pool starts to expand. we've doubled the size of the herd. the truth of the matter is, and this is ted's words, not mine, the restaurants have kept me alive. he calls me every morning, he wants to know what's going on, he's involved. you know, it lifts his spirits. >> won't run out of food. >> he made sure that if he was no longer the head of this empire that he built, that he would have something to step into that would challenge him and keep him going. i mean, it was genius. >> ted is still on top of the world and thinking about what can be done to make it a better place. >> we must never dismiss who he is and who he's been and what he has done for the world is beyond any individual that i can think of, and we just never forget that.

>> and what about a new chapter for ted and jane? >> you love her still? >> yeah. >> to this very day? >> to this very day. >> you look great. >> i've thought about it. i have. i can't ever forget the reasons that made me fall in love with him. >> if there is a true legend, it's ted turner. >> he broke every mold. he changed the world. >> i don't think we'll ever see another one like him again. >> the greatest -- ever played for. >> nothing was ever too ambitious for ted. >> bold, courageous, risk taker. >> the great thing about ted turner is there's no halfway. >> i consider him to be one of my best friends. >> given his childhood, he should have become a dictator. he's turned out to be a good

guy, and he's just a miracle. he's a miracle. ♪ >> it's been a long journey from the heartshiardships of growinga career synonymous with success. but this man who has accomplished so much still longs for approval from the man who drove him the hardest. >> i'd like to show him what i did. i think he would have been impressed. and he was a hard guy to impress. ♪

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