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."