A reporters career in notes

About Marvin Scott

Marvin Scott is a veteran journalist with more than fifty years experience. Mr. Scott is an eleven-time Emmy Award winner and member of the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Scott has interviewed six presidents, visited the front-lines of war in the Middle East and Asia, and witnessed the rise of America’s space program. Now, in his book, As I Saw It: A Reporter’s Intrepid Journey , Scott reflects on such stories as the marches with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a tense meetings with Yasser Arafat, and Burt and Linda Pugach, the couple whose lifelong marriage was forged in deadly obsession; Abraham Zapruder, who shot history’s most infamous piece of film. From political scandals to hauntings at Amityville, local tragedies, triumphs and absurdities find their place alongside accounts of crime and redemption, war and celebrity on a national scale, all told with Scott’s signature passion and candor.