Simon Says “I’m Dead”

Bob Simon, part of the youth movement on 60 Minutes, has died at the age of 73. In a career that only Brian Williams’ imagination could match, Simon covered conflict in 67 countries, from The Troubles in Northern Ireland to the abandonment of Vietnam to the Yom Kippur War to the tank roadblock in Tiananmen Square to the Persian Gulf, where he and four of his crew were captured and spent 40 days as Iraqi prisoners. In his 47-year career, he earned more than 40 major awards, including 4 Overseas Press Club awards, 4 Peabody Awards and 27 Emmys. After all that, the most dangerous place he worked ended up being New York City, where he was killed in a car accident.