On 60 Minutes: Remembering Ed Bradley

[CatWoman]

:cry:

[proud patriot]

1. doesn't come on for 3 hrs here

but I can already tell I'm going to cry too :cry:

[applegrove]

2. I liked his interviews the best. RIP ED

[goforit]

3. so did I!....He was so eloquent and caring of others. A honoable person!

[Libby2]

4. I loved him too. n/t

[cyberpj]

5. I'm old enough to remember Ed Bradley on WDAS radio on Philly

Any other boomer Philadelphians (who liked soul music) here? :hi:


"WDAS served as a conduit connecting community leaders with residents so that by 1965 when riots broke out in Philadelphia, Bradley knew all the important local players in the civil rights movement. WDAS, with its mainly music format, had little to no recording equipment to use out in the field. Bradley covered the riots calling in stories from a pay phone, pulling in an occasional city official or community leader to respond to questions.

Impressed with his work, the station hired him for $1.50 an hour.

While at WDAS, Bradley covered one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches in Philadelphia. Other riots and protests broke out in the city and he was there. As a young reporter he initially struggled with his desire to take part in some of the protests he covered. He quicly learned, however, that if he wanted to give a fair and objective representation of an event he had to detach himself.

Bradley continued his teaching career in tandem with his radio career and soon found juggling both dissatisfying."

http://www.maynardije.org/news/features/061109_ed_bradley/

[blueknight]

6. what a classy,decent man.

confident,yet humble. the world needs more reporters like ed. im sure ed fought the odds all his life. heaven is now a better place

[AllieB]

7. So sad. One of the few real journalists left.

:cry:

[CatWoman]

8. kivk

:kick:

[fortyfeetunder]

9. grabbing a kleenex

I can imagine this was a hard one for the 60 Minutes crew to do. Saw them on Larry King Live on Thurs night. All those eyes were teary, even curmudgeon Andy was melancholy -- you can tell Ed's passing was a tremendous shock.
:cry:

[H2O Man]

10. He was an intense journalist

and an honorable man.