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When veteran CBS correspondent Bob Simon and his three-member crew disappeared at the start of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the network tried frantically to locate them — but prepared a video obituary, just in case.
"No one who knew Bob Simon seemed surprised when he ventured into enemy territory," Dan Rather somberly told the camera. "That was a very Simon thing to do. He was always seeking an edge to his work, pushing himself, moving the story along."
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