CBS News veteran Ed Bradley dies
Pioneering black American journalist Ed Bradley, who won acclaim as a Vietnam War correspondent and later as a reporter for CBS' 60 Minutes, died yesterday of complications from leukaemia. He was 65. Mr Bradley, whose illness was not widely known, had...
Pioneering black American journalist Ed Bradley, who won acclaim as a Vietnam War correspondent and later as a reporter for CBS' 60 Minutes, died yesterday of complications from leukaemia. He was 65.
Mr Bradley, whose illness was not widely known, had just begun his 26th year as one of the team of reporters featured on the landmark CBS News magazine when he died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, a network spokesman said.
In his last two broadcasts, both aired on 60 Minutes last month, Mr Bradley scored an exclusive interview with three Duke University lacrosse players accused of raping an exotic dancer, and presented an expose of safety failures at a BP refinery where 15 oil workers died in a 2005 explosion.