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This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason. The longtime CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon, who covered riots, wars and was held captive for more than a month in Iraq, was killed in a car crash on Wednesday. He was 73.
A car in which Simon was a passenger hit another car in Manhattan, police said. Simon and the car’s driver were taken to a hospital, where Simon was pronounced dead.
For further information, please contact: Simon was among a handful of elite journalists to cover most major overseas conflicts and news stories since the late 1960s, CBS said. His broad spread of assignments included the Vietnam war and, most recently, the Oscar-nominated movie Selma in a career spanning five decades.
He had been contributing to 60 Minutes on a regular basis since 1996 and also was a correspondent for 60 Minutes II in the years it was on air.
The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who does occasional stories for 60 Minutes, was near tears talking about Simon’s death. He said that when Simon presented a 60 Minutes story “you knew it was going to be something special”.
“I dreamed of being, and still hope to be, a quarter of the writer that Bob Simon is and has been,” Cooper said. “Bob Simon was a legend in my opinion. He was someone I was intimidated by.”
Simon won numerous awards, including his fourth Peabody and an Emmy for his story from central Africa on the world’s only all-black symphony in 2012. Another story about an orchestra in Paraguay, one whose poor members constructed their instruments from trash, won him his 27th Emmy, perhaps the most held by a journalist for field reporting, CBS said.
He also captured electronic journalism’s highest honor, the Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Award, for Shame of Srebrenica, a 60 Minutes II report on genocide during the Bosnian war.
Simon joined CBS News in 1967 as a reporter and assignment editor, covering campus unrest and inner-city riots, CBS said. He also worked in CBS’s Tel Aviv bureau from 1977 to 1981 and in Washington DC as its state department correspondent.
Simon’s career in war reporting began in Vietnam and he was on one of the last helicopters out of Saigon when the US withdrew in 1975.
At the outset of the Gulf War in January 1991 Simon was captured by Iraqi forces near the Saudi-Kuwaiti border. CBS said he and the other three members of the CBS News team spent 40 days in Iraqi prisons, an experience Simon wrote about in his book Forty Days. Simon returned to Baghdad in January 1993 to cover the American bombing of Iraq.
Simon was born 29 May 1941 in the Bronx. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1962 with a degree in history. He and his wife have a daughter who is a producer for 60 Minutes in New York.