Product Description
"A News Correspondent Goes Sailing is a book about a sailing trip the author took after retiring from ABC Network News. In each chapter of the book, not only is the sailing adventure described, but the author also reminisces about some of the major news stories he covered as a broadcast journalist. The sailing trip began in October, 1997, and seven months later the sailboat, a Catalina 42 sloop, arrived in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. There were stops in Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Cartagena, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Gary Shepard recalls such news assignments as the student rebellion in Beijing, China; the Vietnam War; President Bush's drug war meeting with heads of state in Cartagena, Colombia; the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, Pennslvania; the young California gray whales strapped in the ice off Barrow, Alaska; and the first Persian Gulf War from Baghdad, Iraq."