Dan Rather on Conventions Then and Now

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 17, 2020

As the DNC gets underway, Dan Rather, former news anchor for the CBS Evening News, president & CEO of "News & Guts" and now author of the Audible Original Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime, looks back on his years covering conventions, including being roughed up by security guards on the convention floor in Chicago in 1968, and offers his insights into covering this year's socially distances events.

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