Sam Donaldson
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Samuel Andrew Donaldson Jr. (born March 11, 1934) is an American former reporter and news anchor, serving with ABC News from 1967 to 2013.
He is best known as the network's White House Correspondent (1977–1989 and 1998–99) and as a panelist and later co-anchor of the network's Sunday program, This Week.
Personal life
Donaldson has been married to Sandra Martorelli Donaldson since December 2014. They live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Donaldson's marriage to Jan Smith ended in divorce in 2014.
Donaldson has four children from previous marriages: Samuel III, Jennifer, Thomas, and Robert Donaldson.
In 1995, Donaldson had a melanoma removed from a lymph node. Since then, he has been an active supporter of cancer research.
Donaldson operates a family cattle ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico. On July 5, 2004, three members of the ranch foreman's family were found murdered. Cody Posey, a 14-year-old and sole remaining survivor of the family, was arrested and charged with the murders and subsequently convicted and sentenced to juvenile detention until age 21. On October 8, 2010, Posey was released.
Donaldson appears in the 2008 political documentary about Lee Atwater, entitled Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story. In the film, he says, "An operative never comes and says, ‘here is a story I’d like you to run for me, but just in private conversation, did you know this about so and so, we’re still checking it mind you, but, but it’s probably going to turn out to be true.’ Well, you don’t want to be beaten by your competition and wait until they announce it. They put it on the conveyor belt and you just run it out.”
Donaldson is a past member of the board of directors of the Library of American Broadcasting, the American Academy of Achievement boards; the past president of the advisory board of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and chairman emeritus of the advisory board of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. He is currently a member of the Board of New Mexico First, the State's bi-partisan booster organization, and the Ford Theater Advisory Council.
On December 1, 2012, Donaldson was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in Lewes, Delaware. Charges were dropped on Friday, November 8, 2013, by a Delaware judge, citing lack of probable cause for the arrest.
Early life and career
Donaldson was born in El Paso, Texas, the son of Chloe (née Hampson), a school teacher, and Samuel Donaldson, a farmer. He grew up on the family farm in Chamberino, New Mexico, which his father had purchased in 1910, two years before New Mexico was admitted to the Union in 1910.
He attended New Mexico Military Institute and Texas Western College (now known as University of Texas at El Paso), where he served as station manager of KTEP, the campus radio station, and the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Donaldson served as an artillery officer in the US Army from 1956 to 1959, earning the rank of Captain (USAR). Donaldson, one of the few observers of an atomic explosion in Nevada testing grounds, was detonated three thousand yards away from the observers' slit trench.
Donaldson was recruited by KRLD-TV (now KDFW-TV), the then-CBS television affiliate in Dallas, Texas, following military service. After a year, he resigned and moved to New York City to look for a job in broadcast news. He was unable to find one.
In February 1961, he was hired by WTOP-TV (now WUSA-TV) in Washington, D.C. He covered both local and national news, including the Goldwater presidential bid in 1964, the civil rights bill in March 1964, and the Medicare bill the next year. With John Douglas doing the weather forecasts, he anchored the 6:00 p.m. and Sunday evening newscasts.