Dan Rather Returning to CBS News For First Time Since Bitter Exit 18 Years Ago

Dan Rather is returning to CBS News.

Nearly 20 years after stepping down as the anchor of the CBS Evening News, and 18 years after he last appeared on the network, the anchor will return to a CBS program. This time, he will be the subject of an interview on CBS Sunday Morning.

Per a release from CBS, “Lee Cowan talks with former CBS News anchor Dan Rather about his work at CBS and his life in news.”

A source confirms that it will be Rather’s first appearance on a CBS News program since he formally left the network under tumultuous circumstances nearly two decades ago.

Rather said that he was the scapegoat in a scandal over a 2004 report for 60 Minutes II on then-President George W. Bush’s military record, and the anchor subsequently sued the network for breach of contract. The 60 Minutes spin-off was canceled less than a year later.

The incident was memorialized in a 2015 film called Truth, in which Robert Redford portrayed Rather. CBS would refuse to accept advertising for the film, calling it “a disservice not just to the public but to journalists across the world.”

Rather opened up to The Hollywood Reporter that year about the film and his exit from CBS, confirming that he had not set foot inside the CBS Broadcast Center since his 2006 exit, but that he occasionally would watch some 60 Minutes.

“I have a lot of flaws and a lot of vulnerabilities,” he said. “I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I have a lot of wounds, some of them self-inflicted, some of them still partially open. But I’m a fighter.”

Now, at age 92, he will open up once more, this time for the CBS Sunday Morning cameras, an opportunity to discuss his legacy with the network that let him go.

CBS Sunday Morning is hosted by Jane Pauley, with other segments set to include a conversation with Kate Hudson, and a story on the Kentucky Derby.

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