[5] Dean reported on the Invasion of Grenada, the Falklands War and Cuba from the early days of the Castro regime up to the present.

He reported on Iran during the hostage crisis, from Somalia during the U.S. intervention, the turmoil in Israel and the Palestinian Territory and the military action in Kosovo involving U.S. Marines.

[12] At Emerson, he was captain of the basketball team[13] and president of his fraternity, Alpha Pi Theta;[14] he also participated in The Berkeley Beacon student newspaper as well as the WERS radio station.

[24] In 1964, Dean joined WCBS-TV, the flagship station of the CBS Television Network, located in New York City as a reporter and anchor.

In 1971, during a six-month assignment in Vietnam for CBS Evening News, Dean covered a combat medevac mission under fire.

With cameraman Greg Cooke, they filmed a seven-minute segment that aired four days later on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

[5] A feature article about the medevac rescues during the Vietnam War and his experience as a news correspondent flying on these missions, was published in Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine.

[25] At CBS, Dean reported on the Iran hostage crisis[30] in 1980, the Space Shuttle Columbia missions,[31][32] the Salvadoran Civil War[33] in 1982, the U.S.

[40] In 1990, Dean spent more than three months covering news events in the Mideast and was the first television journalist to report from inside Kuwait following the Iraqi invasion.

[41] For World News Tonight, he reported from the Middle East during the Gulf War and was on the scene of the first ground battle of Operation Desert Storm in January 1991.

[44] In 1992, from Mogadishu, Somalia during the Somali Civil War[45] and Operation Provide Relief, Dean reported on the first American casualties and former U. S. President George H. W. Bush’s visit to the area.

[52] He reported and hosted a monthly 60-minute cable network science show and occasionally appeared on National Public Radio "Morning Edition” commenting on politics and terrorism.

[53] Dean is a freelance writer, occasionally writing on subjects of personal interest, including stories about the Boston Red Sox[54] and his latest journey to Cuba, 50 years after his 1959 interview with Fidel Castro.

[63] Dean was nominated for a national Emmy Award for his reporting the gun battle in Kosovo involving U. S. Marines who were pinned down by snipers.

During the Vietnam War, CBS News correspondent Morton Dean and cameraman Greg Cooke flew on a harrowing medevac mission to rescue three wounded infantrymen from an enemy infested rice paddy.

Dean's clowning career began on a lark after he finished a story on the women of the circus for CBS Sunday Morning.