'60 Minutes' reporter Ed Bradley dies

RickM · RickM's Garage

I liked Bill. To me he was one of the more respectable personalities. Died of the same disease and at the same age as my mom. Leukemia is a real bastard.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061109/ap_on_en_tv/obit_bradley

NEW YORK - Ed Bradley, the award-winning CBS newsman who has been a correspondent for "60 Minutes" since 1981, died Thursday. He was 65.

Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai, CBS News announced.

Bradley's consummate skills as a broadcast journalist and his distinctive body of work were recognized with numerous awards, including 19 Emmys, the latest for a segment that reported the reopening of the 50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett Till.

Bradley grew up in a tough section of Philadelphia, where he once recalled that his parents worked 20-hour days at two jobs apiece. "I was told, `You can be anything you want, kid,'" he once told an interviewer. "When you hear that often enough, you believe it."

Joeaksa · 11-09-2006, 09:15 AM

Liked him as well and will miss him...

Joe

MichiganMat · MichiganMat's Garage

Wow, Im shocked. I really liked his reporting, he had a really wonderful style.

Dan in Pasadena · Dan in Pasadena's Garage

Very sad. Too, too bad. The amazing thing is that Mike Wallace is 90 and going strong! And he used to smoke like a chimney!

dhoward · dhoward's Garage

To quote Kurt V, "He was a good-looking man".

Nostril Cheese · 11-09-2006, 01:24 PM

The man had a lot of class in my opinion. Sad to hear

1967 R50/2 · 11-09-2006, 02:23 PM

Sad. He did a lot of Jazz broadcasting as well, I listened to him all the time on WBGO.

tchanson · 11-09-2006, 09:35 PM

RIP.

I was long an admirer, but my lasting memory will unfortunately be his truly shameful 60 Minutes segment about the non-existent "unintended acceleration" issues with the Audi 5000 in the mid '80's.

There was never a proper retraction for that bit of (later proven to be staged) slander that almost killed Audi in the US.

Tim