Morley Safer In Manhattan Editorial Image

Morley Safer is seen here at the American Theatre Wing Spring Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City on June 4, 2007. Safer was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist. He was a reporter for the top-rated CBS television newsmagazine, 60 Minutes, for 46 years and gained prominence in the 1960s for his stellar reporting of the Vietnam War. He won 12 Emmys, a Peabody Award, an Overseas Press Award, and numerous others. Known as an art aficianado, he died at 84 in his Manhattan apartment from pneumonia, 8 days after announcing his retirement from 60 Minutes.