... NEW YORK – CBS News newsman Ed Bradley died of leukemia Thursday at the age of 65, the network confirmed. Bradley grew up in a tough section of Philadelphia, was wounded while covering the Vietnam War and later became the first black White House correspondent for CBS News. Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley, Jr. (June 22, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American journalist, best known for 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes. “When you hear that often enough, you believe it.”. “Ed could get people to say the damndest thing because he put them at ease,” said former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw said Thursday. She was the one who raised her after getting divorced from her husband and Ed’s father, Edward Rudolph Bradley, Sr. Read all about Ed Bradley with TVGuide.com's exclusive biography including their list of awards, celeb facts and more at TVGuide.com ... Charlize Theron Is The Old Guard. Sinai Hospital in New York. California Privacy/Information We Collect. NEW YORK ” Ed Bradley, the award-winning CBS newsman with ties to Aspen, died today. Prior to joining 60 Minutes, Bradley was a principal correspondent for "CBS Reports" from 1978 to 1981, after serving as CBS News' White House correspondent from 1976 to 1978. He was 65 years old.A longtime correspondent for CBS News' "60 Minutes," Bradley's probing questions and salt-and-pepper beard distinguished him for millions of TV viewers. But he was like Columbo, who had that disarming style and the knack of getting that last answer out of someone. He was a man who broke down racial barriers - and became a role model for young African Americans, 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl reports. He was 65. He made it look effortless, as someone said: like he wasn't really working, Stahl reports. IE 11 is not supported. In a special report, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric said Bradley was "considered intelligent, smooth, cool, a great reporter, beloved and respected by all his colleagues here at CBS News." After graduating from the historically black Cheyney State College (now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania), he launched his career as a jazz DJ — he was a lifelong jazz fan — and news reporter for a Philadelphia radio station in 1963. The well-known “60 Minutes” correspondent had a home outside Woody Creek, near Aspen. “I’ll never forget the picture of Ed picking up a man who was about to drown,” he said. Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai hospital, CBS News announced. In 1996, correspondent Ed Bradley profiled Ali, and the piece became a classic -- … Bradley, 65, died of leukemia at Mount Sinai, CBS News announced. Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Lincoln Center’s jazz department, called Bradley “one of our definitive cultural figures, a man of unsurpassed curiosity, intelligence, dignity and heart.”. “He’s so good and so savvy and so lights up the tube every time he’s on it that I wonder what took us so long,” Hewitt wrote. “I was told, ‘You can be anything you want, kid,”’ he once told an interviewer. With his signature earring and beard, Bradley was “considered intelligent, smooth, cool, a great reporter, beloved and respected by all his colleagues here at CBS News,” Katie Couric said in a special report. His reporting on the worst school shooting in American history, "Columbine," revealed that authorities ignored telling evidence with which they might have prevented the massacre. After Southeast Asia, Bradley returned to the United States and covered Jimmy Carter’s successful campaign for the White House. "Ed knew everyone from Jimmy Carter to Jimmy Buffett. The news weighed heavy on those who worked with Bradley. “I look around this room tonight and I can see how much our profession has changed and our numbers have grown,” he said. NEW YORK — Ed Bradley, the award-winning "60 Minutes" correspondent who grew up in the tough streets of Philadelphia, was wounded while covering the … Though he had been ill and had undergone heart bypass surgery about a year ago, he remained active on “60 Minutes.” In one of his last reports, an investigation of the Duke case that aired last month, he broke new ground with the first interviews with the accused. Bradley was raised in a rough section of Philadelphia, where he once recalled that his parents sometimes worked 20-hour days at two jobs apiece. Heard on All Things Considered Michele Norris talks with CBS News Correspondent emeritus Mike Wallace, about his longtime 60 Minutes colleague Ed Bradley. NEW YORK -- Ed Bradley, the award-winning television journalist who broke racial barriers at CBS News and created a distinctive, powerful body of work during his 26 years on "60 Minutes," died Thursday. Bradley joined CBS News as a stringer in its Paris bureau in September 1971. He was of African-American nationality. He is a legend and we're going to miss his work, but I think just as important, we're going to miss Ed Bradley the man," McManus said. There is no information about Bradley’s siblings. With his signature earring, Bradley was "considered intelligent, … He was 65. After graduating from Cheyney State College with a degree in education, he launched his career as a DJ and news reporter for a Philadelphia radio station in 1963, moving to New York's WCBS radio four years later. Sinai Hospital at age 65. 60 Minutes Anchor Ed Bradley Dies at 65 : Ed Bradley reporter for the CBS Newsmagazine 60 minutes passed away due to complications from leukemia Bradley had been with the show for over 25 years and was the only reporter to interview Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh before his executi Ed Bradley, the award-winning television journalist who broke racial barriers at CBS News and created a distinctive, powerful body of work during his 26 years on “60 Minutes,” died Thursday. 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, joining distinguished journalists such as Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings as a Paul White recipient. He was 65. “He was narrating a story, and his rich voice wasn’t there anymore. After Bradley's passing, Steve Kroft became the first face. “The first time I really understood that he was ill, on the air, was a couple of weeks ago,” said fellow “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace. Edward Rudolph Bradley, Jr. (June 22, 1941 ? View full size 44-year-old Ed Bradley of Staten Island died while working in a ninth-floor mechanical room at 1290 Sixth Avenue. Three of his Emmys came at the 2003 awards: for lifetime achievement; a report on brain cancer patients; and a report about sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. He met his third wife at a museum where she was working as a tour guide and a Haitian-born artist. Bradley died from complications of leukemia at Mt. ‘He seemed to be fearless’He joined CBS News as a stringer in the Paris bureau in 1971, transferring a year later to the Saigon bureau during the Vietnam War. Bradley “was tough in an interview, he was insistent on getting an interview,” said former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, “and at the same time when the interview was over, when the subject had taken a pretty heavy lashing by him — they left as friends. Nov. 9, 2006 — Ed Bradley, one of television's most prominent African-American journalists, died of complications from leukemia Thursday. It was the story that put him on the map and almost killed him, Stahl reports. Bradley recently served as a radio host for “Jazz at Lincoln Center,” where he won one of his four Peabody awards. He was 65 years old. He received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton and a 1991 Emmy Award for his report "Made in China," a look at Chinese forced-labor camps, and another Emmy in 1992 for "Caitlin's Story," an examination of the controversy between the parents of a deaf child and a deaf association. "He certainly was a reporter's reporter," fellow 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace told CBS News Radio. "Never have the words, 'he will be missed' meant more.". Bradley died of leukemia on November 9, 2006, in New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. But at work his nickname was Easy Ed. At the age of 65 years old he died due to lymphocytic leukemia. He made people comfortable. He wasn't the bulldog type reporter like Mike Wallace," Schieffer said. He was named a CBS News correspondent in April 1973 and, shortly thereafter, was wounded while on assignment in Cambodia. Ed Bradley, the award-winning television journalist who broke racial barriers at CBS News and created a distinctive, powerful body of work during his 26 years on “60 Minutes,” died Thursday. "The pressure is there," Bradley said. He also received a duPont citation for a segment on the Cambodian situation broadcast on CBS News' "Magazine" series. His consummate skills as a broadcast journalist and his distinctive body of work were recognized with numerous awards, including 20 Emmys, the latest for an interview with astronaut Neil Armstrong. 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. Bradley’s consummate skills were recognized with numerous awards, including four George Foster Peabody awards and 19 Emmys, the latest for a segment on the reopening of the 50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett Till. He moved to New York’s WCBS radio four years later. It was just thinner.”, Born June 22, 1941, Bradley grew up in a tough section of Philadelphia, where he once recalled that his parents worked 20-hour days at two jobs apiece. Ed Bradley, a pioneering black journalist who was a fixture in American living rooms on Sunday nights for more than a quarter century on “60 Minutes,” died today. Ed Bradley died of leukemia today, at a hospital in New York. November 9, 2006) was an American journalist, who was best known for his award-winning work on the long-running CBS News television magazine 60 Minutes. He was 65. He was named a CBS News correspondent in early 1973 and moved to the Washington bureau in June 1974. "When you hear that often enough, you believe it.". For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. He was 65 years old. He was wounded while on assignment in Cambodia. Ed was a phenomenal reporter and a great man," Senior Broadcast Producer Bill Owens told CBSNews.com. In an afternoon briefing, CBS News President Sean McManus told reporters that Bradley will be missed for his hard work and groundbreaking stories, but also for his demeanor. "It's an incredibly sad day for everyone at CBS News. A porter for Nashville's Health Department and living on 18th Avenue North in Nashville, Ed was 62 years old and married when he died of uremia and myocarditis at … First published on November 10, 2006 / 8:35 AM. President Bush issued a statement saying he and wife Laura were “deeply saddened” by Bradley’s death. And all of a sudden I heard this terrific noise ... if I had not moved to sit on the side, I would have been dead.". Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai hospital, CBS News announced. Bradley died on November 9, 2006, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, of complications from lymphocytic leukemia. 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 is survived by his third wife, Patricia Blanchet. 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley Dead At 65. The … As Bradley explained in one interview: "People were moved from Viet Cong areas into towns controlled by the government. Nov. 9, 2006 — -- Ed Bradley, one of television's most prominent African-American journalists, died of complications from leukemia Thursday. This is a substantial number of individuals … CBS News reports that newsman Ed Bradley has died. He also won a lifetime achievement award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Read more memories of and tributes to Bradley. More recently, the Denver Press Club awarded him its 2003 Damon Runyon Award for career journalistic excellence. CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer said it was all in his style. In March 1975, he volunteered to return to Indochina and covered the fall of Cambodia and Vietnam. He jumped from Washington to doing pieces for “CBS Reports,” traveling to Cambodia, China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. In early November, 2006, Mr. Bradley died at … When he spoke with McVeigh in February 2000 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., the convicted bomber told Bradley that he was angry and bitter after fighting in the Gulf War. The newsman, the statement went on, “produced distinctive investigative reports that inspired action and cemented his reputation as one of the most accomplished journalists of our time.”. A series of stories from 1979 were award winners, including: "The Boat People," which won duPont, Emmy and Overseas Press Club Awards; "The Boston Goes to China," 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?," which won Emmy and duPont Awards. His mother’s name was Gladys. Ed Bradley, 44, … Cronkite recalled first meeting Bradley in Vietnam: “He seemed to be fearless, an incredibly smart reporter in getting the story.”. On June 2, 2005, Ed Bradley, who died Thursday at 65, participated in a discussion on Talk of the Nation about how the journalism profession is changing. NEW YORK -- Veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley died of leukemia Thursday morning at a New York City hospital. He followed Carter to Washington, in 1976 becoming CBS’ first black White House correspondent — a prestigious position that Bradley didn’t enjoy. NEW YORK, Nov. 9 -- Veteran television reporter Ed Bradley has died of complications of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) at the age of 65. Ed Bradley, in full Edward Rudolph Bradley, Jr., (born June 22, 1941, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Nov. 9, 2006, New York, N.Y.), American broadcast journalist, known especially for his 25-year association with the televised newsmagazine 60 Minutes. “It was like talking not to a reporter, but talking to an interested counselor of some kind. He was 65. He was 65. 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. Wallace was the first face on the introduction of 60 Minutes (1968) since the beginning of the show. Ed Bradley is among the 7,677 American Gold Star casualties recorded in our archive with close ties to Florida. During his illustrious career, Bradley received numerous awards for his work, including 19 Emmy Awards and will be remembered for being a trailblazer for African Americans in the field of journalism. Bradley's first job out of college was as a sixth-grade teacher. "It's been there every day of my life.". In addition to "In the Killing Fields," his work for "CBS Reports" included: "Enter the Jury Room," an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award winner that revealed the jury deliberation process for the first time in front of network cameras. He was 65. He was 65. Katie Couric broke into CBS’ […] "You don't replace a man like Ed Bradley at any news organization. He was 65. Exploring his personal life was married three times. November 10, 2006 / 8:35 AM / CBS. Sometimes that was in their interest and sometimes it wasn't. Ed Bradley, the most prominent African-American in television journalism, died today in New York’s Mt. What was Bradley's secret to getting such renowned stories? Ed Bradley's face replaced Mike Wallace's as the first face in the 60 Minutes (1968) introduction during Bradley's last season. Bradley is survived by his wife, Patricia Blanchet and Reba E. Gaston, his aunt, of Dayton Ohio. “I also see it every day as I travel the country reporting stories for ‘60 Minutes.’ All I have to do is turn on the TV and I can see the progress that has been made.”, But, he added, “There are many more rivers to cross, and many more stories to cover and, I hope, a lot left in this lifetime.”. “60 Minutes” producer Don Hewitt, in his book “Minute by Minute,” was quick to appreciate Bradley after he arrived at the show. Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai hospital, CBS News announced. It was his Emmy-winning 1979 piece on Vietnamese boat refugees that eventually landed him on “60 Minutes.”, The latter piece still resonates for Wallace. He landed many memorable interviews, including the Duke lacrosse players accused of rape, Michael Jackson and the only TV interview with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Copyright © 2021 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Bradley is survived by his wife, Patricia Blanchet. 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