Forrest Sawyer was born on April 19,1949 and is an American broadcast journalist.
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Forrest Sawyer anchored the newsmagazines "Day One" and "Turning Point" Forrest Sawyer recorded stories from all over the globe, and earned awards for his reports and documentaries, including Emmy Awards in 1992,1993, and 1994.
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Forrest Sawyer left ABC News in 1999 to become a news anchor for both NBC and its cable counterpart, MSNBC, where he was a regular substitute for Brian Williams as anchor for The News with Brian Williams.
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Forrest Sawyer left NBC News in 2005 to become founder and president of Freefall Productions, where he produces documentaries and serves as a media strategist and guest lecturer.
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Forrest Sawyer was born and reared in Lakeland, Florida, where he graduated from Kathleen High School.
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Forrest Sawyer was a member of Alpha Tau Omega at the University of Florida, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Eastern Philosophy and World Religions and a Master's degree in Education.
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One of the WAAB newsmen, John Gallagher, said Forrest Sawyer had the sharpest mind and quickest wit he'd ever seen in a radio newsman and could write the news and commentary, as fast he could speak it.
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Forrest Sawyer moved into commercial television with Atlanta's WAGA-TV where he shared a Peabody Award in 1982 for Paradise Saved, a documentary on Cumberland Island.
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Forrest Sawyer filed the first in-depth network report on the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, was the first reporter to gain access to the KGB's files on Lee Harvey Oswald, and filed history's first live television report from a battlefield during the First Gulf War.
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Forrest Sawyer served as a regular substitute anchor on the ABC News programs ABC World News Tonight and Nightline before leaving ABC and joining NBC.
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Forrest Sawyer played himself as moderator in "The Debate" an episode of The West Wing which aired live and was dedicated solely to a debate between two fictitious presidential candidates.
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In late 2007, while filming a documentary in Tanzania, Forrest Sawyer survived a helicopter crash in which he suffered a serious knee injury before hiking miles with other survivors to safety.