Ken Taylor, the Canadian ambassador who sheltered fugitive Americans in Tehran during the Iranian hostage crisis, has died at age 81. The brave work to get those Americans home was the basis of the Ben Affleck film "Argo" -- but as Taylor told Charlie in 2013, it was also just "a Canadian response to people in jeopardy."
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