Among others, he interviewed Howard Stern, Laurence Olivier, Subcomandante Marcos, Timothy McVeigh, Neil Armstrong, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Bill Bradley, the 92-year-old George Burns, and Michael Jordan, as well as conducting the first television interview of Bob Dylan in 20 years. Bradley had been a season ticket holder to the New York Knicks for over 20 years. In 1972 he volunteered to be transferred to Saigon to cover the Vietnam War, as well as spending time in Phnom Penh covering the war in Cambodia. Although Bradley never had children, he was married to Haitian-born artist Patricia Blanchet, whom he had met at New York’s Museum for African Art where she was working as Director of Development. Over the course of Bradley's 26 years on 60 Minutes, he did over 500 stories, covering nearly every possible type of news, from "heavy" segments on war, politics, poverty, and corruption, to lighter biographical pieces, or stories on sports, music, and cuisine. In 1967 he landed a full-time job at the CBS-owned New York City radio station WCBS. He opened himself to the world and dared the world to turn him away. He was the first male correspondent to regularly wear an earring on the air. When he was growing up in a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, his folks told him he could be anything he wanted to be.
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.During his earlier career he also covered the fall of Saigon, was the first black television correspondent to cover the White House, and anchored his own news broadcast, CBS Sunday Night News with Ed Bradley. [4] Bradley was also friends with Jimmy Buffett, and would often perform onstage with him, under the name "Teddy". [6][7] He was 65 years old. On the 60 Minutes program after Bradley's death, his longtime friend Wynton Marsalis closed the show with a solo trumpet performance, playing some of the music Bradley loved best. That year, Walter Cronkite departed as anchor of the CBS Evening News and was replaced by 60 Minutes correspondent Dan Rather, leaving an opening on the program that was filled by Bradley. He worked hard and prepared himself. Police were on Friday night searching a Madora Bay property owned by Bradley Roberts Edwards’ parents, hours after their son appeared in court charged with the Claremont serial killer murders of Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer. [10], National Association of Black Journalists, Radio Television Digital News Association, Radio and Television Digital News Association, "The Savitch Story: Confirmation & Denial: '60 Minutes' Correspondent Ed Bradley Confirms Affair With NBC Anchorwoman", "Ed Bradley Remembered; Interview With Virginia Senator-Elect Jim Webb", "Legendary '60 Minutes' Correspondent Ed Bradley Has Died", The Interviews: An Oral History of Television, Tribute to Ed Bradley by CNN's Larry King, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist Clarence Page on Ed Bradley (11/13/2006), Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia webpage, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed_Bradley&oldid=964851787, American television reporters and correspondents, American war correspondents of the Vietnam War, African-American television personalities, Television personalities from Philadelphia, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania alumni, People from East Hampton (town), New York, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 2005: Lifetime Achievement Award from the, 2007: Bradley posthumously won the 66th annual George Foster Peabody award for his examination of the Duke University rape case, 2007: Bradley posthumously inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, This page was last edited on 27 June 2020, at 23:33.
Bradley Edwards elects not to offer a detailed defence to three charges of murdering Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon — crimes that became known as the Claremont serial killings. On November 13, 2006, they honored him with a moment of silence.
In 1971, he moved to Paris, France. 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. Besides 60 Minutes, Bradley also anchored the news magazine program "Street Stories" on CBS from 1992 to 1993.
It was there that he was injured by a mortar round, receiving shrapnel wounds to his back and arm.