Posted on 07/18/2005 4:48:22 PM PDT by Perdogg
http://www.peterlance.com/
Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter now working as a screenwriter and novelist. With a Masters Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, Lance spent the first 15 years of his career as a print reporter and network correspondent.
He began his career as a reporter for his hometown paper, The Newport, R.I. Daily News. There he won the coveted Sevellon Brown Award from the A.P. Managing Editors Associa-tion. Lance next moved to WNET, the PBS flagship in New York, where he won an Emmy and the Ohio State Award as a producer- reporter for Channel 13's news magazine THE 51ST STATE.
Later, while working as a writer and producer for WABC-TV Lance won his second Emmy along with the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism prize for WILLOWBROOK: THE PEOPLE VS. THE STATE OF NEW YORK, an exposé on a notorious institution for the mentally retarded.
While getting his law degree, Lance worked as a Trial Preparation Assistant in the office of the District Attorney for New York County. Moving to ABC News as a field producer in 1978, Lance won yet another Emmy for his investigation of an arson-for-profit ring in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago.
In 1981 Lance became Investigative Correspondent for ABC News. Over the next five years he covered hundreds of stories worldwide for ABC NEWS 20/20, NIGHTLINE, and WORLD NEWS TONIGHT.
He was a member of the first American crew into Indochina after the end of the Vietnam War. He chased rebel insurgents through the Plaine Des Jarres in Laos and members of the Gambino Family through the toxic wastelands of New Jersey. He tracked knife-happy surgeons in the Deep South and nuclear terrorists through the twisted streets of Antwerp. Then, in 1987, he took a break from non-fiction.
Lance came to L.A. and began working as a writer and story editor for Michael Mann on two of his acclaimed NBC series: CRIME STORY and MIAMI VICE.
In 1989 Lance became the co-executive producer and "show runner" on the fourth season of WISEGUY for CBS and in 1993 he co-created MISSING PERSONS, for ABC. In recent years, he has served as a writer and consulting producer on such series as JAG (NBC) and THE SENTINEL (UPN).
In 1997 Lance's first novel FIRST DEGREE BURN became a national best seller, ranking No. 24 on The Ingram A-List The Top 50 Requested Titles in Mystery- Detective Fiction. The film-noir mystery features FDNY Fire Marshal Eddie Burke. www.firstdegreeburn.com
Later Lance adapted VEIL: THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA, Bob Woodward's best-seller on William Casey for HBO. For Showtime he wrote TERROR.NET, the story of Bradley Smith, the courageous Diplomatic Security agent responsible for helping to apprehend the world's most notorious terrorists.
In the year 2000 Lance returned to investigative reporting with his best-selling non-fiction investigative biography: THE STINGRAY: Lethal Tactics of The Sole Survivor. www.thestingray.net
Following the 9/11 attacks Lance began investigating the origins of the FBI's original probe of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef. After visiting Yousef's former bomb factory in the Philippines, Lance came away with 100's of pages of formerly classified documents proving that Yousef had set the 9/11 plot into motion as early as 1994. Lance then went back and examined the FBI's original efforts to stop Yousef in 1992 as he built the first WTC device. The result is his acclaimed investigative book from Regan Books (Harper Collins) 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE.
good one
After Goerge made this comment, "more than half of the country suspects the government played some part in 9/11..." or something to that effect, I can hardly listen to him anymore. I knew he was a lib, but a frothing conspiracy monkey, I did not.
Whatever happened to that other guy who was subbing for a long time; the one who was studying to be a minister? I guess he became a minister and that precluded him from doing the show.
I forget his name, but I liked him the best (I hate Art Bell's smoker voice)
He's back again, given Art Bell's cutback to one weekend a month. I don't the regularity, since they'll run
"Best of" shows too.
Punnett can be too preachy on really serious issues that aren't going to be solved by turning the other cheek.
But, he's better than sNorry.
I like Barbara, myself.
I thought he was once a conservative talk show host before C2C? No?
Thanks for the ping BK.
Not as far as I know, he may have been, but not anymore. He voted for Kerry, yet fears the "one world government", the micro-chip implants, and says he's against big governmental control. Why did he vote for Kerry then? He's ambiguous about God's existance, pro-envirnomentalist... I always thought he was just kooky, but he's teetering on the edge.
Well, I am listening to the streamlink of this guy...I fell asleep last night. He spent more time talking about the coverup of the Iraq war than anything else.
Hopefully Thursdays terror guest will stay more on topic.
oops, I meant Wednesday with SQ.
Although, he takes the End Is Nigh line also.
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