John Scali

John Scali. Self: Red China: Year of the Gun?. John Scali was a longtime ABC news correspondent who later served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the Nixon Administration (1973- 1976). During his first tenure at ABC, Scali became an intermediary between the Kennedy Administration and Soviet Embassy officials during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a year after he joined ABC-TV and radio from The Associated Press....