Morton Dean Biography
Morton Dean is an American television and radio news anchor, broadcast news correspondent, documentary film director, and author who has won numerous awards. His many assignments as a CBS News and ABC News correspondent included the United States space program, political campaigns, and the Vietnam War.
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How old is Morton Dean? – Age
He is 86 years old as of 22 August 2021. He was born in 1935 in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States. His real name is Morton Dean Dubitsky.
Morton Dean Family – Education
Dean is the son of Joseph Dubitsky and Celia (Schwartz) Dubitsky. He is of Jewish ancestry. In Fall River, he attended B.M.C. Durfee High School. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a bachelor’s degree in English in 1957. He was captain of the basketball team and president of his fraternity, Alpha Pi Theta, while at Emerson. While in college, he changed his name from Dubitsky to Dean. In 1977, he received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from his alma mater.
Morton Dean Wife
He is the father of two daughters and a son with his second wife, Lonnie Reed. Dean splits his time between Ridgefield, Connecticut, and Truro, Massachusetts.
Morton Dean Career
Dean covered a combat medevac mission under fire for CBS Evening News during a six-month assignment in Vietnam in 1971. They filmed a seven-minute segment with cameraman Greg Cooke, which aired four days later on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine published a feature article about medevac rescues during the Vietnam War and his experience as a news correspondent flying on these missions. In 2015, Dean and Cooke, inspired by the events of 1971, produced and directed American Medevac, a documentary that reunites the Medevac crew with some of the service members they had rescued in 1971.
Morton Dean ABC News
Dean joined ABC News as a correspondent in September 1988, covering the Space Shuttle Challenger’s return to space. Dean contributed to ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts, as well as filling in for Ted Koppel on “Nightline.” Dean covered news events in the Middle East for more than three months in 1990, and he was the first television journalist to report from inside Kuwait following the Iraqi invasion. During the Gulf War, he reported from the Middle East for World News Tonight, and he was present at the first ground battle of Operation Desert Storm in January 1991. Furthermore, he covered the 1992 presidential campaign. with in-depth coverage of the presidential campaign of Ross Perot
Dean reported on the first American casualties and former US President George H. W. Bush’s visit to the area from Mogadishu, Somalia, during the Somali Civil War and Operation Provide Relief in 1992. Dean was the lead reporter on the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. Dean was the first and only journalist to witness and report from inside the garage where the truck bomb exploded, and he later covered the investigation into the attack.
Morton Dean Awards
Dean’s reporting has earned him numerous honors, including a National Emmy, an Overseas Press Club Award, and a UPI Golden Mike Award. He received a UPI Broadcasters Association of Massachusetts Award in 1962 for his assistance in the capture of a murder suspect. Dean was a member of the CBS News team that received the Radio Interpretation Award for Journalistic Achievement for “America in Vietnam” from the Overseas Press Club in New York in 1976. In 1981, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary Program for “Louis is 13” on CBS News Sunday Morning. Dean was nominated for a national Emmy Award for his coverage of a gun battle in Kosovo involving US Marines pinned down by snipers. He was a member of the ABC News team that won an Emmy for Outstanding News and Documentary Program Achievement for ABC 2000: The Millennium in 2000.
Morton Dean Salary
Dean earns an annual salary of $100, 000 per year.
Morton Dean’s Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
