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60 Minutes' Ed Bradley Dies
On 60 Minutes, Ed Bradley was the reporter with the earring. The reporter who witnessed the fall of Saigon. The reporter who talked to Michael Jackson and Lena Horne, Muhammad Ali and Timothy McVeigh.
Bradley, the Emmy-winning 60 Minutes correspondent who seemed just slightly cooler than the rest of the room during a 26-year run on the venerable newsmagazine, died Thursday at a New York hospital of leukemia, CBS said. He was 65.
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric broke the "sad news" in a special report.
Bradley's death, Couric said, "has left many here in the CBS family completely grief-stricken."
In an interview on Fox News, 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl said she saw Bradley a week-and-a-half ago.
"We're reeling, just reeling," Stahl said. "Very few of us knew how terribly sick he was."
According to Stahl, Bradley's leukemia had been in remission until the disease "came back in the last three-to-four days with a vengeance."
"People here are not only surprised, but completely devastated," Stahl said on Fox News.
Only last summer, the New York Daily News portrayed the newsman as hanging tough in new contract negotiations. On the air this fall, Bradley remained a vital presence. One of his most recent 60 Minutes reports, on the Duke University rape case, aired last month.
"When someone tells me I can't do the stories I like to do," Bradley said in the Daily News in June, "then I know it's time for me to go."
Ultimately, Bradley, who'd kept on working even after heart bypass surgery in 2003, decided to stay.
"I came to the conclusion that this was still fun," Bradley said in the Philadelphia Inquirer last month. "That's the bottom line. I still enjoy what I do, working with people who encourage me and push me, and vice versa."
Until a recent influx of the unwrinkled to 60 Minutes, Bradley was one of the youngsters at an organization that employs the 75-year-old Morley Safer, the 87-year-old Andy Rooney and the 88-year-old Mike Wallace.
Born June 22, 1941, in Philadelphia, Bradley once recalled that as a boy the nuns at his school told him he could do anything.
Said Bradley in USA Weekend: "I guess I believed them."
Bradley joined CBS News in 1971, following stints as a teacher and a local radio reporter. At CBS, Bradley started out as a stringer at the Paris bureau. Soon, he was a full-fledged correspondent, taking shrapnel in Cambodia, and later, covering the last hours of U.S. troops in Vietnam.
In 1976, Bradley became CBS' first black correspondent assigned to the White House.
The 60 Minutes opportunity came along in 1981. Bradley's reports for the newsmagazine included profiles of the ageless Horne and a Parkinson's-stricken Ali, a death-row interview with McVeigh, the convicted Oklahoma City bomber, and a sit-down with Jackson shortly after the pop singer's arrest on child-molestation charges. AIDS, toxic waste and psychiatric-patient care were among the issues covered by Bradley.
In all, Bradley won 19 Emmys and a batch of other prestigious journalism honors, including the Peabody, the Polk and the duPont.
On CBS News Radio Thursday, Wallace perhaps paid Bradley the highest compliment of all: "He certainly was a reporter's reporter."
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