Carol Cafferty was the wife of CNN newscaster Jack Cafferty. Carol Cafferty died on September 5, 2008. Wolf Blitzer announced her death on CNN that day to explain why Jack Cafferty would not provide his usual commentary on the cable news channel.CNN: The Cafferty File

“In all the years that we’ve been married, she has always brought to the table her unshakable grounding in something a lot more real than being on television or being recognized in the corner drugstore. She has been my rock, having done a magnificent job of keeping me from getting full of helium and drifting off the surface of the earth… She was all the incentive I needed to make painful but transforming changes – to get sober and stop smoking. I knew that I’d lose her if I didn’t. She’s an amazing woman who simply wasn’t worth losing.”—Jack Cafferty, from his 2007 book It's Getting Ugly Out ThereCNN: The Cafferty File