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MITCHELL, S.D., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic nominee for president, was hospitalized Friday after a fall, a staffer at Dakota Wesleyan University said.
McGovern was transferred to Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., about 75 miles from the university in Mitchell, CNN reported. A hospital nurse said he was in "guarded" condition.
The report did not include details about the specific nature of McGovern's injury.
The 89-year-old was at Dakota Wesleyan to film a C-Span program Saturday. It was to have been the first in a series entitled "The Contenders: They Lost the Election But Changed Political History."
McGovern, who represented South Dakota in the Senate for three terms, became a national figure because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. He won the Democratic nomination in 1972 with a campaign that mobilized thousands of young volunteers but lost to President Richard Nixon, carrying only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
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