Hager started out his career as a foreign correspondent in June 1969 , reporting on the Vietnam war . He was soon assigned to NBC 's Berlin bureau , where he continued to cover other foreign trouble spots , including the overthrow of the Iranian Shah in 1979 and the 1989 invasion of Panama by U.S. troops . Hager also covered four Olympic games for NBC , reporting from Germany during the Black September terrorist attacks of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . In 1984 , he was arrested while reporting from the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco
Black September terrorist attacks
Munich massacre
Robert Hager