Lila Diane Sawyer is the current anchor

News presenter

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 of ABC News

ABC News

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' flagship program, ABC World News. Previously, Sawyer had been co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program

Breakfast television

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, Good Morning America

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(GMA).
Born in Glasgow, Kentucky

Glasgow, Kentucky

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, Diane Sawyer is the daughter of Jean W. Sawyer – an elementary school teacher – and Erbon Powers "Tom" Sawyer, a judge. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

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, Kentucky, where her father rose to local prominence as a Republican

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 politician and community leader; he was Kentucky's Jefferson County Judge/Executive

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 when he was killed in a car accident on Louisville's Interstate 64

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 in 1969.