Sander Vanocur was an American television journalist who focused on US national electoral politics, primarily for NBC News and ABC News.
16 Facts About Sander Vanocur
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Sander Vanocur moved to Peoria, Illinois when he was twelve years old.
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Sander Vanocur became an intelligence officer in the United States Army for two years with service in Austria and Berlin, and achieved the rank of first lieutenant.
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Later, Vanocur covered the 1968 United States presidential election in which United States Senator Robert F Kennedy was assassinated.
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Sander Vanocur, who had interviewed Kennedy on June 4,1968, shortly before the Democratic candidate was shot, reported on the incident from The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, for the entire night.
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Sander Vanocur served as host of First Tuesday, a monthly newsmagazine that premiered in 1969 and continued after Sander Vanocur left the network.
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Sander Vanocur joined ABC News in 1977 and worked there until 1991, holding various positions, including chief diplomatic correspondent, senior correspondent in Buenos Aires, and anchor for Business World, the first regularly scheduled weekly business program.
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Sander Vanocur covered the 1997,1998, and 1999 World Economic Summits and was chief overview correspondent during the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections.
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Sander Vanocur was one of the questioners in the 1992 presidential debate.
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Sander Vanocur played fictional versions of himself as a broadcast journalist in theatrical films The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Raise the Titanic, Dave, and Street Fighter.
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Sander Vanocur appeared as himself in the TV movies Without Warning and Weapons of Mass Distraction.
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Sander Vanocur served as television presenter in two of the History Channel's primetime series: Movies in Time and History's Business.
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Sander Vanocur provided narration and further historical material for an expanded audiobook release of the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debates.
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Sander Vanocur married his first wife, fashion designer Edith Pick, on March 3,1956, and they had two sons, Nicholas and Christopher Sander Vanocur.
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Sander Vanocur died from complications of dementia at a hospice facility in Santa Barbara, California, on September 16,2019, at the age of 91.
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Sander Vanocur was parodied by Bob Elliott as national newscaster Sandy Van Andy in another 1971 comedy film Cold Turkey.