Geoff Mason, sports producer thrust into covering terrorism, dies at 85

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Geoff Mason, an Emmy Award-winning sports producer who helped steer ABC Sports’s coverage of the long siege that began before dawn on Sept. 5, 1972, when terrorists took hostages and killed 11 Israeli athletes and officials at the Summer Olympics in Munich, died on Sunday in Naples, Fla. He was 85.

His son, Geoff Jr., said the death, in hospice care, was caused by complications of lung cancer.

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