Sander Vanocur

Sander Vanocur was an American television journalist who covered national campaigns and elections, mostly for NBC News and later ABC News. Born in Cleveland and partly raised in Peoria, Illinois, he earned a bachelor's degree at Northwestern University in 1950, studied at the London School of Economics, served in the Army, and started out as a reporter for The Manchester Guardian. At NBC he was a White House correspondent, took part in questioning at the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, and served on the network's convention floor team. He hosted the newsmagazine First Tuesday, then worked for PBS and The Washington Post before joining ABC News in 1977, where he remained until 1991 as chief diplomatic correspondent and anchor of Business World. He moderated the 1984 vice presidential debate. He also played fictional versions of himself in The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971) and Street Fighter (1994), and appeared as himself in the television movie Without Warning (1994).