Editing Ted Turner (section)

== Early life ==
Turner was born on November 19, 1938, in [[Cincinnati|Cincinnati, Ohio]],<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Ted Turner |encyclopedia=Britannica Money |url=https://www.britannica.com/money/Ted-Turner |access-date=}}</ref> the son of Florence (née Rooney) and Robert Edward Turner II, a billboard [[magnate]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/19/Ted-Turner.html |title=Ted Turner Biography (1938–) |publisher=Film Reference |access-date=March 24, 2010}}</ref> When he was nine, his family moved to [[Savannah, Georgia]], and raised him as an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopalian]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IaMPCgAAQBAJ&q=episcopal|isbn=9780313350436|title=Ted Turner: A Biography: A Biography|date=2009|publisher=Abc-Clio}}</ref> He attended [[The McCallie School]], a private boys' preparatory school in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]].

Turner attended [[Brown University]] and was vice-president of the [[Brown Debating Union]] and captain of the sailing team. He became a member of [[Kappa Sigma]]. Turner initially majored in [[classics]]. His father wrote saying that this choice made him "appalled, even horrified", and that he "almost puked".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/07/this-is-my-son-he-speaks-greek.html|title=This is my son. He speaks Greek|publisher=Lettersofnote|date=July 25, 2012|access-date=July 26, 2012|archive-date=July 27, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120727162316/http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/07/this-is-my-son-he-speaks-greek.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Turner later changed his major to [[economics]], but before receiving a degree, he was [[expulsion (academia)|expelled]] for having a female student in his dormitory room.<ref>{{cite book| title=Ted Turner: It Ain't As Easy as It Looks: The Amazing Story of CNN| author=Porter Bibb| publisher=Virgin Books| year=1996| isbn=0-86369-892-1| url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/155566203X| pages=26–33}}</ref> Turner was awarded an honorary B.A. from Brown University in November 1989 when he returned to campus to give the keynote address for the [[National Association of College Broadcasters]] second annual conference.

Expelled from Brown just as tensions in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] were beginning to heat up, Turner joined the [[United States Coast Guard Reserve]] in order to fill his service obligation before he ended up getting [[Conscription in the United States#Cold War|drafted]]. Honored by the [[United States Navy Memorial]] with its [[Lone Sailor Award]] in 2013, Turner told ''The Washington Post'', "I liked boats", and ended up getting "deployed to some pretty sweet places&nbsp;– Charleston and Fort Lauderdale."<ref name="USCG">{{cite news |title=Ted Turner, swaggering billionaire humbled by 'Lone Sailor' prize for long-ago Coast Guard stint |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2013/09/19/ted-turner-billionaire-humbled-by-lone-sailor-prize-for-long-ago-coast-guard-stint/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=19 September 2013}}</ref>