But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

After a year he resigned and moved to New York City to look for a job in broadcast news. Pest control
Only a year later Donaldson was embroiled in another Federal aid scandal. He covered the two major party political conventions in 1968 and in 1969 began anchoring the network's 11:00 pm Saturday and Sunday newscasts.

Samuel Andrew "Sam" Donaldson Jr. (born March 11 1934) is an American reporter and news anchor serving with ABC News from 1967 to the present.