Morton Dean Biography
Morton Dean is a television and radio anchor, news correspondent, and author from the United States. Dean previously worked as a weekend news anchor for CBS Evening News and ABC’s Good Morning America. Other ABC anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.
Morton Dean Age
Morton is 86 years old as of 2021. He was born Morton Dean Dubitsky on 22 August 1935 in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.
Morton Dean Height
Morton stands at a height of 6 feet 1 inch (185 cm).
Morton Dean Education
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. At Emerson, he was captain of the basketball team and president of his fraternity, Alpha Pi Theta; he was also a member of The Berkeley Beacon student newspaper and WERS radio station. 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. In his honor, the high school’s television studio and publications center was renamed the Morton Dean Television Studio in 1983, and in 2011, Dean was presented with the key to the city of Fall River by former mayor Willian Flanagan.
Morton Dean Family
Dean was the son of Joseph and Celia (Schwartz) Dubitsky. He is of Jewish ancestry.
Morton Dean Wife
Dean has been married twice. He is the father of two daughters and a son with his second wife, Lonnie Reed. He splits his time between Ridgefield, Connecticut, and Truro, Massachusetts.
Morton Dean ABC
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 election campaigns, including extensive coverage of the Ross Perot presidential campaign.
He also covered the 1992 presidential election campaigns, including extensive coverage of the Ross Perot presidential campaign. 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. Other ABC anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Janai Norman, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.
Morton Dean Good Morning America
Dean joined ABC’s “Good Morning America” in 1993 and presented the morning show’s newscasts until 1996. He went to Nairobi to cover the 1998 US embassy bombings and to Sudan in August 1998 to cover Operation Infinite Reach, which sent cruise missile strikes on al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan in retaliation for the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
Dean reported from Kosovo for 30 days during NATO air raids during the Kosovo War in 1999, helping ABC News win an Emmy for its coverage of the conflict. When a deadly terror bomb exploded aboard the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, he was assigned as ABC’s lead reporter.
Morton Dean CBS Vietnam
Dean began his career as a reporter and anchor at WCBS-TV in New York City, the flagship station of the CBS Television Network. In 1967, he joined the CBS network, where he later succeeded Walter Cronkite as the network’s principal space correspondent, covering the United States space program, national politics, and the Vietnam War.
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 Net Worth
Dean has also not declared his net worth to the public as of now. Nonetheless, there is no doubt that he has been able to accumulate a good figure in terms of his net worth throughout his career in the film industry. However, we will update the site as soon as we get more information on the same.
Morton Dean Books
1978 – Hello World!
1997 – The Return to Glory Days
