Bob Simon 1941-2015
Bob Simon, a legendary correspondent for "60 Minutes" and CBS News, died in a car accident Feb. 11, 2015.
He was 73.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
Bob Simon reports during the Vietnam War.
Simon was born in the Bronx and attended Brandeis University. Simon's career in war reporting was extensive, beginning in Vietnam. While based in Saigon from 1971-72, his reports on the war -- and particularly the Hanoi 1972 spring offensive -- won an Overseas Press Club award for Best Radio Spot News for coverage of the end of the conflict. Simon was there for the end of the conflict and was aboard one of the last helicopters out of Saigon in 1975.
He also reported on the violence in Northern Ireland from 1969-71 and also from war zones in Portugal, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia and American military actions in Grenada, Somalia and Haiti.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
Simon covered conflicts around the world, but also reported on a variety of subjects.
"Bob was a reporter's reporter. He was driven by a natural curiosity that took him all over the world covering every kind of story imaginable," Fager said. "There is no one else like Bob Simon. All of us at CBS News and particularly at 60 Minutes will miss him very much."
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
Over a 47 year career at CBS News, Bob Simon earned more than 40 major awards, including 27 Emmys, believed to be the most earned for a field reporter, and four Peabody Awards.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
Simon joined CBS News in 1967 as a New York-based reporter and assignment editor, covering campus unrest and inner city riots. Simon also worked in CBS News' Tel Aviv bureau from 1977-81, and worked in Washington D.C. as the network's State Department correspondent.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
CBS correspondent Bob Simon, center, speaks to reporters after he and three colleagues were freed in Iraq March 2, 1991. The four were captured and imprisoned for 40 days.
Behind him is cameraman Roberto Alvarez. The four-man team left for Jordan soon afterward.
Simon wrote the book "40 Days" about the experience.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
Simon conducting an interview for a piece on Egypt's Coptic Christians.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
Bob Simon, Steve Kroft and Morley Safer at the New York premiere of "Page One: Inside the New York Times" at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center in New York June 13, 2011.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
Past and present correspondents of "60 Minutes" along with Don Hewitt, the executive producer, lower left, and Ed Bradley, center, on stage for a Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards in New York Sept. 3, 2003. Bob Simon is at left.
Left to right, at rear, Christiane Amanpour, Diane Sawyer, Steve Kroft, Meredith Vieira and executive editor Philip Scheffler. Middle row, Simon, Lesley Stahl, Bradley, Morley Safer and Andy Rooney.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
CBS News correspondent Bob Simon at his desk in his NYC office in 2010.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
Simon reporting on the ALMA telescope in Chile.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
Simon reporting on Fukushima, Japan, three years after the 2011 earthquake. Simon walks through the town of Tomioka where radiation levels are considered safe enough to visit during the day, but people must leave by 3 p.m.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
"Selma" director Ava DuVernay and Bob Simon in Selma, Alabama.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
Bob Simon reported on a piece about the movie "Selma" broadcast on "60 Minutes"Feb. 8, 2015, three days before his death.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
"60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon speaks with a news producer at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York March 24, 2010.
Bob Simon: 1941-2015
Bob Simon records a voice-over script for 60 Minutes in 2010.