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Article: Ed Bradley, of `60 Minutes;' a pioneer in TV journalism Ed Bradley, of `60 Minutes,' a pioneering TV journalist
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2006
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Ed Bradley, the pioneering CBS reporter who broke the racial
boundaries of TV news, died yesterday from complications of leukemia.
He was 65.
Mr. Bradley was CBS's first black White House correspondent and
the first black correspondent on the network's respected newsmagazine
"60 Minutes." In his 26 years at "60 Minutes," he interviewed figures
as diverse as Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and singer Lena
Horne - and developed a distinctive, sometimes-casual persona,
wearing an earring on air for years.
But Mr. Bradley also maintained a reputation for hard-hitting
journalism, winning 20 Emmys and many other awards. And he used his