Editing Sam Donaldson (section)

=== ''Primetime Live'' and ''20/20'' ===
In August 1989, Donaldson became co-anchor of the network's new magazine program ''[[Primetime (U.S. TV program)|Primetime Live]]'' with [[Diane Sawyer]].  He and Sawyer co-anchored Primetime Live from 1989 to 1998 and its successor, ''[[20/20 (US television show)|20/20 Wednesday]]'', from 1998 to 2000. One of his reports featured a Nazi [[Gestapo]] officer named [[Erich Priebke]] who had escaped to Argentina after World War II. Donaldson's team located Priebke in 1994, and Donaldson interviewed him on a street in [[Bariloche]], Argentina, about his role in the execution of 335 Italian civilians on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler in the caves outside Rome.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Samuels|first=Shimon|date=May 15, 2020|title=The SS and the Vatican|url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/the-ss-and-the-vatican-628075|access-date=2020-09-02|website=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref> When the report aired, Italy demanded Priebke's extradition and Argentina eventually complied. Priebke was sentenced to life in prison in Italy for his crimes.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Smale|first=Alison|date=2013-10-11|title=Erich Priebke, Nazi Who Carried Out Massacre of 335 Italians, Dies at 100|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/world/europe/erich-priebke-nazi-who-carried-out-italian-massacre-dies-at-100.html|access-date=2020-09-02|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>