Illiterate at 12, CBS success at 46

Byron Pitts was chatting with students at a Harlem charter school the day before a recent visit by President Bush when the CBS correspondent had a realization: They viewed him as just another empty suit who couldn’t possibly understand their problems. Little did they know. “When I was your age,” he told them, “I couldn’t read.” Read more about Pitts’ struggles, and eventual success, in this article from The Washington Post.