Sandy Gall

Sandy Gall
Gall in Cambridge, April 2012
Born	Henderson Alexander Gall (1927-10-01) 1 October 1927 (age 89) Penang, Malaysia
Residence	Penshurst, Kent
Alma mater	Aberdeen University
Occupation	Journalist, author, news presenter
Years active	1953-present
Employer	ITN (1963-1992), LBC (2003-present)
Spouse(s)	Eleanor Gall (present)

Henderson Alexander "Sandy" Gall, CMG, CBE (born 1 October 1927), is a Scottish journalist, author, and former ITN news presenter whose career as a journalist has spanned more than 50 years.

Born in Penang, Malaysia, Gall's father was a rubber planter. Gall was educated in Scotland at Trinity College (Glenalmond College), a boys' independent school in Glenalmond in Perth and Kinross, where he boarded. He graduated from Aberdeen University in 1952. In 1953 he joined Reuters as a foreign correspondent for whom he reported for the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the Congo Crisis 1960-1963.

He joined ITN in 1963 as a foreign correspondent. He was the first ITN journalist to report the Vietnam War when the United States Marines landed on 8 March 1965. He returned to Vietnam several times until 1975 when Saigon fell and he was forcibly removed from the country by the communist authorities. During this time he also reported from Cambodia, China, Afghanistan, and Africa. He also covered the Six-Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973. In 1972 he was arrested with his Reuters colleague Nicholas Moore in Uganda and held for three days in the Makindye police camp. He was one of the original staff on News at Ten on 3 July 1967 and became one of its senior presenters.