Reporting the tragedy of the 1972 Munich Olympics – CBS News


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ABC Sports was covering the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, when Arab terrorists armed with submachine guns took the Israeli team hostage. The deadly drama was shown live on television — an episode retold in the new film “September 5.” Sean McManus, former president of CBS News and president and chairman of CBS Sports, and son of ABC Sports commentator Jim McKay, remembers that tragedy, and watching his father report it to the world at work.

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