28 April 1980: Jon Snow was the first Western journalist to report from the scene of a crash that killed eight people during a US mission to try to rescue hostages held in US Embassy siege in Tehran.
I was there: Jon Snow recalls Iran’s 1979 revolution:
http://www.channel4.com/news/i-was-there-jon-snow-recalls-irans-1979-revolution
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