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All in a Day | Jan 3, 2013 | 8:24

A rescued American diplomat remembers John Sheardown

The Canadian Caper saw six American diplomats smuggled out of Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979. And the man who housed them, John Sheardown, died this week. Mark Lijek was one of the rescued, and he joined us to remember his former host.

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