On February 28 , 1962 , Rather left Houston for New York City for a six-month trial initiation . Rather did not fit in easily on the East Coast , and his first reports for CBS included coverage of the crash of American Airlines Flight 1 in Jamaica Bay , and a less memorable event on the suffocation of children at a hospital in Binghamton . Shortly after , Rather was made chief of CBS 's Southwest bureau in Dallas . In August 1963 , he was appointed chief of the Southern bureau in New Orleans , responsible for coverage of news events in the South , Southwest , Mexico and Central America
American Airlines Flight 1
American Airlines Flight 1
Dan Rather