Dan Rather

Dan Rather

journalist

BIRTHDAY October 31, 1931
BIRTH SIGN Scorpio
BIRTHPLACE Wharton, TX
AGE 93 years old
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ABOUT DAN RATHER

Correspondent for 60 Minutes II who worked as a CBS news anchor for 24 years. During decades of award-winning news reporting on CBS, he signed off every evening with the word Courage.

He graduated from Sam Houston State University.

He published his memoir, Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News, in 2012.

He married Jean Goebel in 1957. He has a daughter named Robin and a son named Danjack.

He was the first network television journalist to report that John F. Kennedy was assassinated.