Morton Dean: A Noble Career in Broadcast Journalism.
MORTON DEAN (b.1935) is an award-winning American television and radio news anchor, broadcast news correspondent, documentary film director, and author.
Dean is a former weekend news anchor for CBS Evening News, as well as ABC’s Good Morning America.
While a correspondent for CBS News for 20 years and ABC News for 14 years, his many assignments included the U.S. space program, political campaigns and the Vietnam War.
Putting himself in harm’s way, Dean reported on the Invasion of Grenada, the Falklands War and Cuba from the early days of the Castro regime up to the present. He reported on Iran during the hostage crisis, from Somalia during the U.S. intervention, the turmoil in Israel and the Palestinian Territory and the military action in Kosovo involving U. S. Marines. He covered Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, the NATO air attacks in Belgrade, the terror bomb blast on the USS Cole bombing in Yemen, the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi and the U.S. retaliation in Sudan, as well as the first terrorist attacks on World Trade Center in 1993.
Dean is the author of two books, and the writer-director of American Medevac, a documentary which reconnects medevac crew members with some of the service members they rescued during the Vietnam War.
Dean presented his documentary, American Medevac, at the FIU School of Communication + Journalism in November, 2017. Both students and faculty were emotionally impacted by the film, and engaged Mr. Dean in an energetic Q&A period following the screening.
On a personal note, Mort Dean is the first person to ever buy one of my paintings (1971). We played tennis in the summers, and watched each other’s children grow up on the beach.
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OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED: 1:17 min.
SELF-CONFIDENCE: 1:10 min.
PERSEVERANCE FURTHERS: 1:45 min.
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SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES: 3:33 min.
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SELF-CONFIDENCE: 2:38 min.
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OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED: 2:22 min.
UNDERSTANDS THE BUSINESS OF ART: 3:46 min.
SERENDIPITY: 2:52 min.
SELF-CONFIDENCE: 3:18 min.
SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES: 5:36 min.