Mighty Favog Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Ed Bradley died today. No time right now to look up the particulars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Good Man...................Rest in Peace......doesn't matter how or why..................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Here's his CBS bio, don't see anything on his passing on the internet yet. I always thought him a consummate professional at fair reporting. (CBS) The 2005-06 season marks Correspondent Ed Bradley's 25th on 60 MINUTES. He joined the broadcast during the 1981-82 season. He also anchors and reports hour-long specials.Bradley's consummate skills as a broadcast journalist and his distinctive body of work have been 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 received three Emmys at the 2003 awards: a Lifetime Achievement Emmy; one for a 60 MINUTES report on brain cancer patients, "A New Lease on Life" (April 2002); and another for his hour on 60 MINUTES II about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, "The Catholic Church on Trial" (June 2002). Bradley's 60 MINUTES interview with condemned Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (March 2000) was the only television interview ever given by the man guilty of one of the worst terrorist acts on American soil; it also earned Bradley an Emmy. His reporting on the worst school shooting in American history, "Columbine" (April 2001), revealed on 60 MINUTES II that authorities ignored telling evidence with which they might have prevented the massacre. Other hourlong reports by Bradley have prompted praise and action: "Death by Denial" (June 2000) won a Peabody Award for focusing on the plight of Africans dying of AIDS and helped convince drug companies to donate and discount AIDS drugs; "Unsafe Haven" (April 1999) spurred federal investigations into the nation's largest chain of psychiatric hospitals; and "Town Under Siege" (December 1997), about a small town battling toxic waste, was named one of the Ten Best Television Programs of 1997 by Time magazine. Bradley's significant contribution to electronic journalism was also recognized by the Radio/Television News Directors Association when it named him its Paul White Award winner for 2000. He joins other distinguished journalists, such as Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings, as a Paul White recipient. More recently, the Denver Press Club awarded him its 2003 Damon Runyon Award for career journalistic excellence. Another prestigious honor received by Bradley is the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards grand prize and television first prize for "CBS Reports: In the Killing Fields of America" (January 1995), a documentary about violence in America, for which he was co-anchor and reporter. His work on 60 MINUTES has gained much recognition, including a George Foster Peabody Award for "Big Man, Big Voice" (November 1997), the uplifting story of a German singer who became successful despite birth defects. In 1995, he won his 11th Emmy Award for a 60 MINUTES segment on the cruel effects of nuclear testing in the town of Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, a report that also won him an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in 1994. Also in 1994, he was honored with an Overseas Press Club Award for two 60 MINUTES reports that took viewers inside sensitive military installations in Russia and the United States. In 1985, he received an Emmy Award for "Schizophrenia," a 60 MINUTES report on that misunderstood brain disorder. In 1983, two of Bradley's reports for 60 MINUTES won Emmy Awards: "In the Belly of the Beast," an interview with Jack Henry Abbott, a convicted murderer and author, and "Lena," a profile of singer Lena Horne. He received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton and a 1991 Emmy Award for his 60 MINUTES report "Made in China," a look at Chinese forced-labor camps, and another Emmy for "Caitlin's Story" (November 1992), an examination of the controversy between the parents of a deaf child and a deaf association. In addition to "In the Killing Fields," his work for "CBS Reports" has included: "Enter the Jury Room" (April 1997), an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award winner that revealed the jury deliberation process for the first time in front of network cameras; "The Boat People" (January 1979), which won duPont, Emmy and Overseas Press Club Awards; "The Boston Goes to China" (April 1979), a report on the historic visit to China by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which won Emmy, Peabody and Ohio State Awards, and "Blacks in America: With All Deliberate Speed?" (July 1979), which won Emmy and duPont Awards. Bradley's coverage of the plight of Cambodian refugees, broadcast on the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" and CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING, won a George Polk Award in journalism. He also received a duPont citation for a segment on the Cambodian situation broadcast on CBS News' "Magazine" series. He covered the presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter during Campaign '76, served as a floor correspondent for CBS News' coverage of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions from 1976 through 1996, and has participated in CBS News' election-night coverage. 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" (January 1992-August 1993). 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. Prior to joining CBS News, he was a reporter for WCBS Radio, the CBS Owned station in New York (August 1967-July 1971). He had previously been a reporter for WDAS Radio Philadelphia (1963-67). Bradley was born June 22, 1941, in Philadelphia and was graduated from Cheyney (Pa.) State College in 1964 with a B.S. in education. He lives in New York with his wife, Patricia Blanchet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Amy Posted November 9, 2006 Moderators Share Posted November 9, 2006 Leukemia. Very sad news, indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Something about the guy. I always liked him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted November 9, 2006 Author Share Posted November 9, 2006 Without sounding morbid I thought if anyone of them would go it would be Andy Rooney or Mike Wallace. I hear Mike is REALLY getting up there in years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel's wife Posted November 9, 2006 Moderators Share Posted November 9, 2006 Something about the guy. I always liked him. Ditto here. He always seemed to be fair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arky Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Something about the guy. I always liked him. Ditto here. He always seemed to be fair. And pointed without being abrasive. JT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted November 9, 2006 Author Share Posted November 9, 2006 Here's a tid-bit of info. Ed was an audiophile too. On one occation the cameras were shooting him at his desk and you could see the McIntosh C40 preamp on a shelf in the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.4knee Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 That is very sad I always enjoyed watching him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomer9911 Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Don't think you had to state "DIES" here as abrupt...sorry, just my personal belief... RIP ED BRADLEY...you deserve it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepathlesstaken Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Very sad to see him go. I don't watch much T.V. but I make it a point to try and watch 60 Minutes every Sunday as it is such a good news / interview program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 sad to see him go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted November 11, 2006 Author Share Posted November 11, 2006 Don't think you had to state "DIES" here as abrupt...sorry, just my personal belief... RIP ED BRADLEY...you deserve it.... Well taken. I changed it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huhuru Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Great professional news person. I know I will miss him.[] Huhuru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Spinner Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 Ed Bradley died today. No time right now to look up the particulars. Blazing .....!!! I can't BELIVE you edited that title ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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