Sander Vanocur
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Vanocur in 2006
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Sander Vinocur January 8, 1928 Cleveland, Ohio |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University |
| Occupation | Series host |
| Known for | Broadcast journalism |
| Spouse(s) | Edith Pick (1956-1975; her death; 2 children) Virginia Backus Wood (m. 1975) |
Sander "Sandy" Vanocur (/ˌvænˈoʊkər/) (born January 8, 1928) is an American journalist.
Vanocur was born Alexander Vinocur in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Rose (Millman) and Louis Vinocur, a lawyer. His family is of Russian Jewish descent. Vanocur moved to Peoria, Illinois when he was twelve years old. After attending Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois, he earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the Northwestern University School of Speech (1950). He began his journalism career as a reporter on the London staff of The Manchester Guardian and also did general reporting for The New York Times.
Described as "one of the country's most prominent political reporters during the 1960s," Vanocur served as White House correspondent and national political correspondent for NBC News in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was one of the questioners at the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960 and was also chosen as one of the questioners in the 1992 presidential debate as well as one of NBC's "four horsemen," its floor reporters at the political conventions in the 1960s—the other three were John Chancellor, Frank McGee, and Edwin Newman. While White House correspondent during the Kennedy administration, Vanocur was one of the first reporters to publicly ask Kennedy to justify the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Vanocur also dubbed Kennedy's coterie the "Irish mafia."
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