Posted on 11/09/2006 9:21:12 AM PST by AUJenn
Ed Bradley, the veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent and one of the pioneering black journalists of his generation, died today. He was 65.
Bradley, who had won 19 Emmy awards, covered an incredible array of stories after joining the CBS newsmagazine in 1981, from brain cancer to sexual abuse in the Catholic Church to the high school shootings at Columbine.
He also reported a number of award-winning documentaries, covered political conventions and filled in on the "CBS Evening News" and other programs.
Bradley remained active on "60 Minutes," but he had been ill for some time and underwent heart surgery about a year ago.
"He was this gentle giant," said Bob Schieffer, CBS's chief Washington correspondent and a close friend. "He just did so much for so many African-American kids. He was a great role model."
Did not even know he was ill. RIP
On another note I saw on the Discovery Channel last that Ted Bobblehead has joined Discovery and has gone to Iran and interviewed citizens and members of their "government" (if that's what you can call it) about their feelings about the relations between the US and Iran. I saw him ask one of their diaperhead Immams if he thought the US was provoking Iran into a war. Of course the answer was "yes".
Looks like Dan Blather has an understudy. Now that Castro is all but dead and buried, the drive-by media has to find another darling, it might as well be Iran. Maybe he will travel to Pyongyang next
RIP.
Politics aside, he was a good interviewer.
Aack, sorry for my bad grammar.
We get it. He was a leftist, communist "journalist". But he is also now dead. Do you wear sneakers when you dance on graves or boots?
In highschool, I think he played football with a guy that went on to become a serial killer, an enforcer for a Boston mob.
I quit watching 60 minutes ages ago, may he RIP.
Putting words in my mouth. How DU of you.
AIDS?
OH, that's terrible. He is no longer suffering.
Hadn't thought of that, but you're right on both counts.
Leukemia
Good grief. I had no idea he was ill. RIP.
My son-in-law died of leukemia January 2005.
He was diagnosed in 2001, went through debilitating chemo treatments then, lost 80 pounds and was sometimes so weak he couldn't hold his head up.
Then doctors announced they got it all and he bounced back. The cancer reemerged in late 2004, and he decided to wait until after Christmas to take the chemo treatments (so he could have a good Chritmas with his three young kids, instead of being sick). In January, he took his first chemo treatment, which made him really sick.
My stepdaughter took him to the emergency room, where they made him wait for three hours while they treated sprained ankles, coughs, etc. He was so weak and so sick he laid down on the floor in the ER.
Immediately after they called him back he went into cardiac arrest and died.
When the leukemia patient is undergoing the chemo treatments their immune systems are destroyed, and a simple cold can kill them. So, Bradley could have died of some simple bug, the chemo itself, or the cancer.
My son-in-law died of leukemia January 2005.
He was diagnosed in 2001, went through debilitating chemo treatments then, lost 80 pounds and was sometimes so weak he couldn't hold his head up.
Then doctors announced they got it all and he bounced back. The cancer reemerged in late 2004, and he decided to wait until after Christmas to take the chemo treatments (so he could have a good Chritmas with his three young kids, instead of being sick). In January, he took his first chemo treatment, which made him really sick.
My stepdaughter took him to the emergency room, where they made him wait for three hours while they treated sprained ankles, coughs, etc. He was so weak and so sick he laid down on the floor in the ER.
Immediately after they called him back he went into cardiac arrest and died.
When the leukemia patient is undergoing the chemo treatments their immune systems are destroyed, and a simple cold can kill them. So, Bradley could have died of some simple bug, the chemo itself, or the cancer.
RIP Ed -- very sorry you died so young.
prayers for him and his family
I also know a man that this happened to. He went to the doctor around Eastertime because he'd been having severe headaches. Found out he had leukemia. By July, he had passed away.
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