Researching Morton Dean
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The name Morton means "From the Town Near the Moor" and is of English origin.
Records of Morton Dean on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Morton Dean and the Dean Genealogy
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 27106 people with the Dean surname in the UK? Dean is now ranked number 186 for popularity in the UK. |
Dean Genealogy Databases
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Some Famous People called Morton Dean
Morton Dean
Morton Dean Dubitsky (born August 22, 1935), better known as Morton Dean, is an American television and radio anchor, news correspondent 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.
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 writer and director of American Medevac, a documentary which reconnects medevac crew members with some of the service members they had rescued during the Vietnam War.
Dean received numerous awards for his reporting, including a National Emmy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and a UPI Golden Mike.
Source: Morton Dean, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Dean
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