In late 1975, Dean was named an anchor of the CBS Sunday Night News,[REF] and later in 1976, moved to the CBS Sunday Evening News until 1984 [REF].
At CBS, Dean reported on the Iran hostage crisis[REF] in 1980, the Space Shuttle Columbia missions,[REF][REF] the Salvadoran Civil War[REF] in 1982, the U.S. Invasion of Grenada[REF] in 1983 and the Falklands War in 1982 [REF].