NEW YORK Nov 9, 2006 (AP)— 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 long career was marked with an assortment of honors: a Peabody award for a June 2000 report on Africans dying of AIDS, the Paul White Award the same year for his contribution to electronic journalism, a Damon Runyon Award in 2003 for career journalistic excellence.
He collected 19 Emmys, the most recent for a segment on the reopening of the racially motivated 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.”
Kinda sucks… i grew up watching him on sixty minutes 