Ed Bradley Quotes

• Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you’re raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

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  Tags in Kept, Compassionate

• I did anything that would get me on the air.

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  Tags in Air

• I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

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  Tags in Vietnam, Cambodia

• 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.

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  Tags in Tape, Stood

• And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

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  Tags in Events, Sporting

• But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

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  Tags in Block, Radio

• I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

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  Tags in Attached, Emotionally

• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

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  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Mom

Ed Bradley (28)

Birth:	22nd June, 1941
Death:	9th November, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Ed Bradley 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 with Ed Bradley. He received several awards for his work including the Peabody, the National Association of Black Journalists Lifetime Achievement Award, and 19 Emmy Awards.

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