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Remembering a giant: Nelson Mandela dead at 95

Former South African President Nelson Mandela, the man who led his country's peaceful transition out of apartheid and became the country's first black president, died Thursday. He had been battling a lung infection for many months. Debora Patta reports from Johannesburg.
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