FILE - This Sept. 5, 2006 file photo shows journalist Sander Vanocur supporting Santa Barbara News-Press employees wishing to unionize during a news conference in Santa Barbara, Calif. Vanocur, a network news reporter who for decades covered the biggest moments in politics, died Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 91.
Vanocur died Monday night in Santa Barbara, California, said Chris Vanocur. He was 91. He had been dealing with dementia in recent years. Vanocur was among the last people to interview Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where he was assassinated shortly after winning the California Democratic primary in his run for president in 1968.
“We didn’t know what it looked like,” Vanocur said in a 2011 interview. “You didn’t see it through television when you were on the panel.” He served in the U.S. Army in Europe and attended the London School of Economics, beginning his journalism career while in England. His son said he was sold when he wrote a letter to the editor that appeared in the Manchester Guardian.
Politics and war took up much of his time, but the civil rights issue was Vanocur’s favorite subject to cover, his son said, because he believed in the cause.
He was a serious pragmatic liberal reporter who had a unique talent for putting the tumultuous times in a perspective that resonated with everyone. Something which we are sorely missing today..
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