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Forrest Sawyer is one of America's most respected television journalists, with over 24 years of experience reporting from around the world. He is a veteran of ABC, CBS, and MSNBC. He has anchored the ABC magazine programs "Day One" and "Turning Point", as well as "World News Sunday", and "Good Morning America". For a decade Forrest Sawyer was the primary replacement anchor on ABC's "Nightline".

Forrest Sawyer is the founder of FreeFall Productions, an award-winning documentary production company. He has reported documentaries for ABC News, MSNBC, Frontline and the Discovery Networks. His work includes the acclaimed documentary "Return to the Ia Drang", which for the first time returned United States veterans to a critical Vietnam battlefield to meet their one-time enemies. And in Kosovo, Forrest Sawyer documented from the battle the controversial deployment of Apache helicopters that resulted in the only American casualties of war.

Forrest Sawyer has had numerous honors during his career, includiing the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, seven National Emmy Awards. two Sigma Delta Chi Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, an Associated Press Award, an Ohio State Award, an Ark Award and two American Psychological Associations Awards. He is a veteran war correspondent, having reported on every United States action over the past two decades. In 1990 and 1991 he spent eight months covering the Gulf War, scoring numerous exclusives from Baghdad to Saudi Arabia to Iran; including reports from inside Kuwait City before it was liberated by coalition forces.

Forrest Sawyer's world travels include reports from the Oklahoma City terrorist attack, a report from inside KGB headquarters on the Lee Harvey Oswald Soviet intelligence file, and the attempted coup of Manuel Noriega in Panama. Mr. Sawyer's work has carried him thoughout Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

Forrest Sawyer has a Master of Education degree from the University of Florida, as well as extensive post-graduate work in environmental science. His Bachelor of Arts degree, also from the University of Florida, is in Eastern philosophy and world religions.

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