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'60 Minutes' Reporter Ed Bradley Dies
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer


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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.


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.



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  That's too bad.  I really enjoyed watching him on Sunday nights. 

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Cricket wrote:

  That's too bad.  I really enjoyed watching him on Sunday nights. 

me too - I also had no idea he had leukemia.

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this is really sad, i loved him and his earrings that just didn't seem to belong on him!

i had no idea he was sick, either.

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they don't make many journalists like him anymore. RIP

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aww, this really makes me sad.

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 He is one of the few people on 60 mintues that I liked.That is really sad.

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I always thought he was so cool, I liked his voice and his earring. 65 is so young

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