6MT.net Infiniti G35/G37/GTR Community - RIP Ed Bradly - 60 Minutes won't be the same without you.

gammawolf · 11-09-2006, 01:45 PM

Not only was he one of the coolest journalists ever, he was smart, savvy and unafraid to do some tough stories. I looked up to him as a journalist and trusted his interviews and reports. Wow, without him and Mike Wallace at 60 minutes, it's a very different show now.
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'60 Minutes' reporter Ed Bradley dies

By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer 42 minutes ago

Ed Bradley, the award-winning "60 Minutes" correspondent who grew up in the tough streets of Philadelphia, was wounded while covering the Vietnam War and later became CBS's first black White House correspondent, died Thursday. He was 65.

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

Bradley joined "60 Minutes" in 1981, 10 years after he started with the network as a stringer in Paris.

Producer Don Hewitt, in his book "Minute by Minute," was quick to appreciate Bradley's work once he joined the "60 Minutes" crew.

"He's so good and so savvy and so lights up the tube every time he's on it that I wonder what took us so long," Hewitt wrote.

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.

He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Three of his Emmys came at the 2003 awards: a lifetime achievement Emmy; one for a 2002 "60 Minutes" report on brain cancer patients and for a "60 Minutes II" report about sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.

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."

After graduating from Cheney State College, he launched his career as a DJ and news reporter for a Philadelphia radio station in 1963, moving to New York's WCBS radio four years later.

He joined CBS News as a stringer in the Paris bureau in 1971, transferring a year later to the Saigon bureau during the Vietnam War; he was wounded while on assignment in Cambodia. Bradley moved to the Washington bureau in June 1974, 14 months after he was named a CBS News correspondent.

He later returned to Vietnam, covering the fall of that country and Cambodia.

After Southeast Asia, Bradley returned to the United States and covered Jimmy Carter's successful campaign for the White House. He followed Carter to Washington, becoming CBS' first black White House correspondent — a prestigious position that Bradley didn't enjoy.

He jumped from Washington to doing pieces for "CBS Reports," traveling to Cambodia, China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. It was his Emmy-winning 1979 work on a story about Vietnamese boat people, refugees from the war-torn nation, that eventually landed his work on "60 Minutes."

SDG35619 · 11-09-2006, 02:53 PM

RIP Ed...this is crazy, I didn't know he was ill.

Zoomzoomers · 11-09-2006, 02:58 PM

I just liked that they would put a gay black dude on such a major sindicated news show. Sucks, these news castors seem to drop dead without warning and in groups.

Hexxum001 · 11-09-2006, 03:40 PM

Are you kidding me?? I didn't know he was sick either. Wow, this is a huge loss and not only for 60 Minutes. RIP Ed Bradley. You will be missed.

uhohNumber2brb · 11-10-2006, 09:33 AM

He was a great Philadelphian....

Zoomzoomers · 11-10-2006, 01:28 PM

You know all this time I thought he was gay (homosexual), until yesterday. I heard them say on the news something about his wife. I always thought he was gay. Damn, sorry Ed. I didn't mean to piss on you grave. RIP.

gammawolf · 11-10-2006, 01:44 PM

^^^I saw that you wrote that in your post the other day and I was like, "I didn't know Ed Bradley was gay"

just cause the man wore an earring doesn't make him gay

Zoomzoomers · 11-10-2006, 01:46 PM

No it wasn't the rings, I had heard from this dude that worked for a syndicate broadcast station as an intern and that's what that idiot told me.

SmokeG305 · 11-13-2006, 12:21 PM

RIP

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Infiniti514 · 11-13-2006, 09:56 PM

ABQ_G35 · 11-15-2006, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by SDG35619

RIP Ed...this is crazy, I didn't know he was ill.

I noticed the last year or so he had that weak appearance of someone who was ill, just something about his appearance was making me wonder if he was sick, he sure was a good newsman, a great amongst many wanna be great's, IMO the media needs more like Ed!