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Back Stories: Terror At The Summer Olympics

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – CBS News reporter Dave Maresh was covering the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, when reports of a terror attack surfaced.

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"I immediately got into my most athletic clogs and took my most un-athletic body through security by acting like probably a coach, who was simply out for a jog," he recalls.

Maresh then made his way to where the Israelis were being held hostage.

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