David Schoumacher

David Schoumacher ( ; October 13, 1934 – March 24, 2023) was a former newspaper and television journalist. He was also a television anchor in Washington D.C. from the 1970s until he retired. He started out as a newspaper journalist, until moving into broadcasting: radio and television. He covered presidential campaigns, including the 1968 Eugene McCarthy campaign, the Vietnam War, the Watergate trials, and interviewing astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, and the civil rights movement.

As a reporter, Schoumacher worked for CBS, ABC, and finally WJLA-TV 7, a local channel in Washington and ABC affiliate. He worked for WJLA-TV from 1976 to 1988.

He also hosted the telecourse series Economics U$A in 1985, covering macro- and microeconomics with the help of Richard T. Gill and Nariman Behravesh, economic analysts. Provided by Wikipedia