
“I had been covering some pretty bad human tragedy. But when ABC tasked him with covering the trial of Danny Rolling-a Louisiana man charged with serial murders in Gainesville in 1990-he felt uneasy. Donvan had been on the ground during the Gulf War, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and paramilitary clashes in Northern Ireland. He had just returned to the United States from Moscow after more than a decade abroad, covering disastrous global conflicts as a foreign correspondent.

In 1993, journalist John Donvan received his first assignment as a writer and reporter on ABC’s Turning Point.
