Sander Vanocur, a network news correspondent who covered presidential elections, the White House and the Falkland Islands War, has died. He was 91. Vanocur passed away Monday night in a hospice fac…
in the 1960s. During his tenure at the network, he posed questions to John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon during the nation’s first televised presidential debate in 1960., and was employed by the network from 1977 to 1991. During his time at ABC, Vanocur was dispatched to South America and covered the 1982 Falkland Islands War between the U.K. and Argentina. Later, he moderated the vice presidential debate between George H.W. Bush and Geraldine Ferraro.
Vanocur was Born in Cleveland, and grew up in Peoria, Illinois. He graduated from Northwestern University, served in the U.S. Army in Europe and attended the London School of Economics.
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