My series of gigs began after three years in the army when I hustled jobs in a small town television station on week nights and a newspaper on the weekends while going to college in California.

Three years later I was a news writer-producer-director in the Sacramento area. The director part of that led to what some consider the high point my life in television. I got 50-dollars a show and free vitamins directing Jack LaLanne's syndicated series for a few months. It all went downhill after that.

For eight years I was with CBS owned stations based in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.

I joined NBC News in 1976 and stuck around for 25 years. I was overseas primarily covering small wars and revolutions for 15 of those years----from Central America to Bosnia while based in London, Lebanon, and Jordan. I landed, often in a confused state, in over 80 countries. Along the way I was jailed briefly in three countries and expelled from three.

For the past few years Deborah Amos and I have produced a series of reports and documentaries for National Public Radio.

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