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While trying to interview a Georgia delegate who was being escorted out of the building, CBS News correspondent Dan Rather was grabbed by security guards and was roughed up.
While Rather was reporting from the convention floor, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite turned his attention towards the area where Rather was reporting from and Rather was grabbed by security guards after he walked towards a delegate who was being hauled out and asked him " what is your name sir?
" Rather, who was wearing a microphone headset, was then heard on national television repeatedly saying " don't push me " and " take your hands off me unless you plan to arrest me " to the guards.
After the guards let go of Rather, Rather told Cronkite " Walter ... we tried to talk to the man and we got violently pushed out of the way.
This is the kind of thing that has been going on outside the hall, this is the first time we've had it happen inside the hall.
What happened is a Georgia delegate, at least he had a Georgia delegate sign on, was being hauled out of the hall.
We tried to talk to him to see why, who he was, what the situation was, and at that instant the security people, well as you can see, put me on the deck.
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