One of fourty semi finalists in the
"Journalist in Space Program" (cancelled following the Challenger tragedy);
candidate from Connecticut; in 1986 working for INN. Dean is a former weekend
news anchor for CBS Evening News, as well as ABCs 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. 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 Husseins 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 a freelance writer, occasionally writing on subjects of personal
interest, including stories about the Boston Red Sox and his latest journey to
Cuba, 50 years after his 1959 interview with Fidel Castro. |