Bob Simon
Bob Simon was born in The Bronx, New York, United States on May 29th, 1941 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 73, Bob Simon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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"Bob" Simon (May 29, 1941 – February 11, 2015) was an American television reporter for CBS News.
He covered crises, war, and unrest in 67 countries during his career.
The removal of American troops from Vietnam, the Israeli-Lebanese War in 1982, and the student demonstrations in China's Tiananmen Square in 1989.
During the Persian Gulf war in 1991, he and four of his television crew were captured and detained by Iraq for 40 days.
"Forty Days" was his first book, which was published. In 1996 and 1999, he served as a regular correspondent for CBS' 60 Minutes II and 61 Minutes II. He was the senior foreign correspondent for 60 Minutes at the time of his death in a car crash.
CBS News President David Rhodes has described Simon as "a giant of broadcast journalism," and he has been recognized as one of the few journalists to cover the majority of the major overseas conflicts since 1969.
Simon earned more than 40 major awards over his 47 years of journalism, including the Overseas Press Club award and 27 Emmy Awards for journalism on February 11, 2015.
He was taken to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Early life and education
Simon was born in The Bronx, New York City, to a Jewish family. He received a Phi Beta Kappa degree from Brandeis University in 1962 with a major in history. Simon served as an American Foreign Service officer and as a Fulbright Scholar in France and a Woodrow Wilson scholar from 1964 to 1967. He worked at the CBS News London bureau from 1969 to 1977, and he spent time in the London and Saigon bureaus, where he served as a Vietnam War reporter. He was stationed in 1977 to 1981 with the CBS News Tel Aviv bureau.
Career
During the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969, Simon began reporting news. He began reporting in Vietnam in 1971; he was rewarded with an Overseas Press Club award for his coverage of Hanoi's Easter Offensive. He gained another as part of the team that oversaw the final six weeks of US involvement, where he boarded one of the last helicopters to leave in 1975. In subsequent years, he reported from war zones in Grenada, Somalia, and Haiti. Following the 2011 revolts in Egypt, he was in Poland during martial law, with Israeli troops during the Israeli-Lebanese War, and in Egypt following the uprisings.
Simon spent time in Washington, D.C., as the CBS News State Department's correspondent from 1981 to 1982. Simon served as a New York-based CBS News national reporter from 1982 to 1987, and in 1987, he was named the CBS News Chief Middle Eastern correspondent.
Simon and his CBS News crew were intercepted by Iraqi forces in January 1991 and spent 40 days in an Iraqi jail, the majority of which was in solitary detention. Simon later wrote that it was a "careless mistake" for him and his crew to cross the border, and he recalled the event in the book Forty Days.
Simon began 60 Minutes II as a correspondent and reporter for seven seasons on 60 Minutes II from January 1999 to June 2005, after which he became a full-time correspondent. His coverage of foreign affairs was broadcast on all CBS News shows, winning him more than 40 major awards, including the President's Award of the Overseas Press Club's highest award for a body of work. Simon has also been given 27 Emmy Awards, the most coveted by a field journalist.
"A giant of broadcast journalism," CBS News President David Rhodes called him "a giant of television journalism." Simon was also "one of the best writers ever to work in television journalism," according to CBS News anchor Dan Rather. Rather, who worked with him for 38 years, is referred to as a "old school" journalist, one of the few well-informed "scholar reporters," and someone who thrived on demanding and challenging roles.
His numerous award-winning stories during his 47-year career took him around the globe: He received his fourth Peabody Award as a leader of the world's only all-black symphony and also an Emmy Award for reporting an orchestra in Paraguay who could only afford to make their instruments out of garbage. After the 2011 earthquake in Fukushima that caused a tsunami and nuclear explosion, Simon returned from Pakistan and later from Japan. He has also received Emmy Awards for his reporting from Vietnam (two awards), Lebanon, Cambodia, Saudi Arabia, India, and China.
Conflicts in Portugal, Cyprus, the Falkland islands, the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia, Grenada, Somalia, and Haiti have all been covered by Simon. He received an Emmy for reporting Israeli athletes' deaths at the Munich Olympics in 1972. During the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, Louis Zamperini, an American Olympic runner who survived World War II as a Japanese prisoner of war, gave a 30-minute report on him. Simon was awarded a Sports Emmy for his contribution to this tale.
Simon was given permission to Mount Athos in 2011 and wrote a two-part 60 Minutes report on the monks.