sadness

I always thought Ed Bradley was a cool guy. Never met him, but got that impression of him from 60 Minutes. In searching for a pic after hearing of his passing, I stumbled on the one you see to the left. God bless Google image search. Anyway, that's Ed Bradley onstage with the one and only Godfather of Funk, George Clinton. As it turns out, Ed came up on stage and sang along on Up for the Downstroke. That, by default, makes him a cool guy. He will be missed.

RIP Ed.

'60 Minutes' correspondent Ed Bradley dies

Ed Bradley, the award-winning "60 Minutes" correspondent who grew up in the tough streets of Philadelphia, was wounded while covering the Vietnam War and later became CBS's first black White House correspondent, died Thursday. He was 65.

Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai, CBS News announced.

Bradley joined "60 Minutes" in 1981, 10 years after he started with the network as a stringer in Paris.

Producer Don Hewitt, in his book "Minute by Minute," was quick to appreciate Bradley's work once he joined the "60 Minutes" crew.

"He's so good and so savvy and so lights up the tube every time he's on it that I wonder what took us so long," Hewitt wrote.