'60 Minutes' correspondent Ed Bradley dies
Emmy-winning veteran newsman succumbs to leukemia at age 65
NEW YORK - Ed Bradley, the award-winning “60 Minutes" correspondent who grew up in the tough streets of Philadelphia, was wounded while covering the Vietnam War and later became CBS's first black White House correspondent, died Thursday. He was 65.
Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai, CBS News announced.
Bradley joined “60 Minutes" in 1981, 10 years after he started with the network as a stringer in Paris.
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NEW YORK - Ed Bradley, the award-winning “60 Minutes" correspondent who grew up in the tough streets of Philadelphia, was wounded while covering the Vietnam War and later became CBS's first black White House correspondent, died Thursday. He was 65.
Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai, CBS News announced.
Bradley joined “60 Minutes" in 1981, 10 years after he started with the network as a stringer in Paris.
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