First Name
Sam
Last Name
Donaldson
Date of Birth
11 March 1934
Build
Average
Hair Color
Brown - Dark
Place of Birth
El Paso, TX
Star Sign
Pisces
Ethnicity
White
Claim to Fame
ABC newscaster
Gender
Male
Nationality
American
Couple Profile
Sam Donaldson, known for wearing what may well be the worst toupee in television history (except maybe for cartoon character George Jetson`s), grew up on a farm in bucolic southern New Mexico. There young Sam enjoyed fishing, horseback riding, picking cotton and corn -- that sort of thing. Then, when Sam was only seven years old, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The very next day his mother purchased the family`s first radio so they could listen to news coverage of the war. Shortly thereafter, little Sam decided that someday he was going to be a newsman.
He started out in radio, during his college years, doing the local news for KEPO in El Paso, Texas. After graduation Donaldson went to Los Angeles where he spent a year at USC before returning to Texas to volunteer for Dwight D. Eisenhower`s 1956 Presidential campaign. Afterward, Donaldson enlisted in the Army where he served two-and-a-half years as a second lieutenant in the artillery battalion. After his 1959 discharge from the Army, Donaldson landed a TV news job at an ABC affiliate in Dallas. He soon jumped ship to look for work in New York, eventually winding up doing the news for CBS affiliate WTOP in Washington, D.C. In 1967 he was recruited to join ABC News, where he covered the White House beat during the Carter and Reagan years.
Donaldson is one of the most highly-paid newsreaders at ABC, and also one of the 40 largest landholders in New Mexico, as he owns ranches occupying approximately 45,000 acres of Lincoln County. The livestock includes horses, goats, and hundreds of sheep. A newscaster pulling down something like $2 million a year, Donaldson feels perfectly comfortable in receiving the same federal wool subsidies as any other rancher: "If it`s in existence and I am eligible to use it, I`ll use it."
High School
New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, NM
University
New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, NM, BA, Texas Western College, University of Southern California
Full Name at Birth
Samuel Andrew Donaldson
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Wikipedia Text
Samuel Andrew "Sam" Donaldson, Jr. (born March 11, 1934) is a reporter and news anchor for ABC News, who from dates in 1979 through the 1990s substitute anchored the Sunday edition of World News Tonight for regular host Barry Serafin and later Carole Simpson.
Age
77
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