{"id":65275,"date":"2015-02-12T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=65275"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:26:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:26:39","slug":"bob-simon-60-minutes-killed-auto-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=65275","title":{"rendered":"Bob Simon &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; killed auto accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/simonbob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-65276\" alt=\"simonbob\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/simonbob.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; His fellow broadcast journalists are mourning the death of longtime &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; correspondent Bob Simon, who was killed in a car crash last night in New York City. He was 73.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CNN anchor Anderson Cooper &#8212; who does occasional stories for the CBS program &#8212; says when Simon presented a story, &#8220;you knew it was going to be something special.&#8221; Cooper says he still hopes to be &#8220;a quarter of the writer&#8221; that Simon was.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CBS News President David Rhodes calls Simon &#8220;a giant of broadcast journalism.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Steve Kroft, another &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; correspondent, says Simon was a &#8220;gutsy reporter&#8221; and a &#8220;true gentleman&#8221; who &#8220;knew the Middle East as well as any reporter.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Simon&#8217;s career in war reporting began in Vietnam. At the start of the Gulf War in 1991, Simon was captured by Iraqi forces near the Saudi-Kuwaiti border. CBS said he and three other members of CBS News&#8217; coverage team spent 40 days in Iraqi prisons.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In recent days, he&#8217;d been preparing a report on the Ebola virus and the search for a cure for this Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; broadcast.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Police continue to investigate the accident involving a Lincoln TownCar in which Simon was a passenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; His fellow broadcast journalists are mourning the death of longtime &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; correspondent Bob Simon, who was killed in a car crash last night in New York City. He was 73. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CNN anchor Anderson Cooper &#8212; who does occasional stories for the CBS program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65279,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65275\/revisions\/65279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}