Veteran 60 Minutes Correspondent Passes Away

NEW YORK, November 9: 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley passed away today at Mount
Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of complications from leukemia. He was 65.

Bradley joined CBS’s acclaimed news magazine 26 years ago.
Over the course of his career Bradley won 19 Emmys, most recently for a report
on the reopening of the 50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett Till.

Prior to joining 60 Minutes, Bradley was a principal correspondent for CBS Reports (1978-81), after serving as CBS News' White House
correspondent (1976-78). He was also anchor of the CBS Sunday Night
News (November 1976-May 1981) and of the
CBS News magazine Street Stories.

Bradley joined CBS News as a stringer in its Paris bureau
in September 1971. A year later, he was transferred to the Saigon bureau, where
he remained until he was assigned to the CBS News Washington bureau in June
1974. He was named a CBS News correspondent in April 1973 and, shortly
thereafter, was wounded while on assignment in Cambodia. In March 1975, he volunteered
to return to Indochina and covered the fall of Cambodia and Vietnam.