One of NBC News’ legendary ‘four horsemen’ has died

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Sander Vanocur, who started in TV news in the 1960s, died Monday, Sept. 16, 2019.

• Vanocur was 91.
• He died from complications from dementia.
• Vanocur worked for NBC News from the 1960s until 1977.
• During that time, he was on the panel of people posing questions to John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon during the first ever televised presidential debate in 1960.
• He became known as one of the “four horsemen” of NBC News, along with Frank McGee, John Chancellor and Edwin Newman.
• Vanocur jumped to ABC in 1977, working there until 1991.
• He also worked for PBS and The Washington Post.