Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes Dies

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http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5656500

NEW YORK (AP) - Ed Bradley, a correspondent for "60 Minutes" since 1981, has died, CBS News announced Thursday.

Bradley died Thursday of leukemia at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. He was 65.

The 2005-06 season of "60 Minutes" marked Bradley's 25th year with the groundbreaking, critically hailed CBS news magazine.

Bradley collected 19 Emmys, the most recent for a segment on the reopening of the racially motivated murder case of Emmett Till.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Occassionally, a well-known person dies and I'm just looking at the screen stunned.  When John Ritter died, I just couldn't believe it when I heard.  And now, here's what I can only call one of the coolest cats on television suddenly dead.  How could this be?  Leukemia?  I had no idea.

Terrible, terrible news.

[Lanya]

I couldn't believe it either. 
I just saw a bit on TV that showed him saying, "If I meet St. Peter at the pearly gates and he asks me, What have you done that you should enter here?  I'll say, 'Did you see my piece on Lena Horne?"
Great man.  I'll miss him.