Ed Bradley
Ed Bradley
Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley, Jr.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. He received several awards for his work including the Peabody, the National Association of Black Journalists Lifetime Achievement Award, and 19...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth22 June 1941
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
There was no one around me who didn't work hard.
I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.
It directly contradicts, though, what the president and his staff were telling us.
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.
I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.
I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.