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Bob Simon, 60 Minutes, provided by CBS News
Remembered as a gracious colleague, a great writer and the quintessential foreign correspondent, CBS News correspondent Bob Simon dodged bullets in war zones and was held hostage in Iraq for 40 days. Simon died in a car accident in Manhattan Wednesday night at age 73.
“A real gentleman,” said John Ferrugia, who knew Simon from his days at CBS News and last exchanged emails with Simon regarding the “60 Minutes” corresondent’s in November.
The irony of his death, in New York, in a car crash, was not lost on those who knew him.
