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From Dead to Missing

Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher was thought to have died, when his plane was shot down over Iraq in the first night of the Persian Gulf War, in January of 1991. Bob Burns, Pentagon Correspondent for the Associated Press, tells Noah Adams that Speicher's status has now been changed, from killed to missing in action.

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