17 Facts About Michael Nicholson

Michael Nicholson was an English journalist and newscaster, specializing in war reporting.

Michael Nicholson spent part of his childhood in West Germany.

Michael Nicholson's film was flown back to London on an RAF plane and made the evening news the following day.

In 1975, Michael Nicholson went to South Vietnam, and reported several events followed by the Fall of Saigon, including the battle of Newport Bridge, a key passway where ARVN soldiers fighting the last stand against PAVN troops and Vietcong heading for the capital, and the US Embassy gathered around by thousands of panic Vietnamese citizens trying to leave the country by American helicopters.

Michael Nicholson was ITN's first bureau chief in South Africa, based in Johannesburg from 1976 to 1981 and the first television correspondent to be allowed to live in apartheid South Africa, a brief covering Africa from Cape Town to the Sahara.

Michael Nicholson was on holiday in the Lake District when the Falklands War broke out.

Michael Nicholson had a sporadic decade-long stint as a television newscaster, becoming known as a presenter on ITN's early evening News at 545.

Michael Nicholson would continue this role until March 1986, when he decided to resign from studio newscasting to go back 'on the road'.

Michael Nicholson was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1991, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at the London offices of ITN.

Michael Nicholson was employed by a variety of British national newspapers.

Michael Nicholson was an EMMY Honours finalist in 1969 for 'Christmas in Biafra' and for 'Shooting the Messenger' in 2009, a Sony Broadcasting Awards finalist, and three times Gold Medalist in New York's Broadcasting Guilds Award.

Michael Nicholson pleaded with the authorities to evacuate them, including Natasha, a nine-year-old who had been abandoned by her mother.

Michael Nicholson smuggled her out of the country, claiming her as his daughter, and handing her to the immigration authorities at London Heathrow airport.

Michael Nicholson published his experiences in his book, Natasha's Story on which the 1997 film Welcome to Sarajevo is based.

Michael Nicholson lived with his wife Diana, two sons Thomas and William, and adopted daughter Natasha in Grayswood, Haslemere, Surrey.

Michael Nicholson had a daughter named Ana, whom he adopted from Brazil.

Michael Nicholson died at the age of 79 whilst on a holiday cruise ship in the Persian Gulf with his wife.