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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBob Simon, '60 Minutes' correspondent, killed in crash on West Side Highway
Bob Simon, a correspondent for "60 Minutes," was killed when the livery cab he was a passenger in crashed on the West Side Highway on Wednesday night, a police source said.
The 73-year-old reporter was a passenger in the livery cab traveling south on 12th Ave. at W. 30 St. when the car rear-ended a Mercedes-Benz driven by a 23-year-old man and then slammed into a median.
Both the driver and Simon had to be cut out of the car, police said.
Simon, 73, was a correspondent for CBS news show "60 Minutes."
The veteran CBS reporter was rushed to St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital, where he died, a police source
said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bob-simon-60-minutes-correspondent-killed-crash-article-1.2111975
Lefta Dissenter
(6,623 posts)hlthe2b
(102,637 posts)He seemed like a good guy and a very competent reporter. RIP, sir
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Sad.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,382 posts)Everyone else not seriously injured. I wonder if he had a seat belt on in the back of the limo.
Sad either way.
blm
(113,157 posts).
spanone
(136,011 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)On the fifth day of the Persian Gulf War, Simon and a CBS News crew broke away from the heavily controlled government pools of reporters and stepped across a deserted border line between Saudi Arabia and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Simon, however, was a real journalist.
villager
(26,001 posts)What a hell of a way to go!
Dammit.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)JI7
(89,305 posts)And i mean that in a positive way. In contrast to celeb/news people like Brian Williams.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Was even a POW for a few weeks in Iraq. Unlike Bill "The Liar" O'Lielly, he was a real journalist.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)salin
(48,955 posts)in an era where some news media figures are about being sensations ... Simon seemed old school journalism. Get the story (don't be the story, don't create stories to be propaganda.) Condolences to his family, to his friends, and to those his life touched.
Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)RIP
xmas74
(29,688 posts)So few of the old school journalists left.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Could they get get any more pictures of the twisted wreckage? What no blood on the pavement? Fucking jerks.
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