60 Minutes Says Goodbye to Bob Simon

Bob Simon was an American television correspondent for CBS News. During his career, he covered crises, war, and unrest in 67 countries.  Simon reported the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the Yom Kippur War in 1973, and the student protests in China's Tiananmen Square in 1989. Historically, during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, he and four of his TV crew were captured and imprisoned by Iraq for 40 days.  He wrote a book about their capture called Forty Days.

On February 11, 2015, Simon was involved in a car accident where he loss control of his Mercedes and hit another vehicle. He was transported to St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital, where he later died.

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