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Bob Simon of 60 Minutes died

Bob Simon of 60 Minutes died

‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Bob Simon died Wednesday evening 11 February in a car accident. The CBS reporter rode in a limousine that drove against another car and then slammed into a metal barrier for pedestrians on West Side Highway in New York. It seems that the driver of the limo lost control of the car. The police are doing research and the exact cause has not been announced yet.

Simon, who has won multiple Emmy Awards, including a Lifetime Emmy, started at CBS in 1967; in 1996 he began to contribute regularly for the Sunday-evening news magazine. As an accomplished foreign journalist, Simon was often involved in real hazardous situations. At the beginning of the Gulf war in 1991, he and his team were captured for 40 days by Iraqi troops.

He also was a correspondent for ‘60 minutes’ II; when that series ended in 2005, he worked full-time on ‘60 Minutes’. Simon's most recent piece for the series was a report about the Academy Award-nominated movie Selma.

Simon is leaving behind his wife Françoise and his daughter Tanya, who is a producer on ‘60 Minutes’. Bob Simon was 73 years old.

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