Apr 8, 2015: Hollywood Reporter: Bob Simon's Daughter (and Producer) Pens Poignant Tribute: "His War Stories Were My Bedtime Stories" (Guest Column)
Tanya Simon grew up hiding the keys from her father so he wouldn't leave.
Tanya Simon grew up hiding the keys from her father so he wouldn't leave.
Mar 8, 2015: Newsday: Bob Simon's last story for '60 Minutes' is on the Met's James Levine
The great CBS News reporter Bob Simon — who died Feb. 11 — has one final story Sunday for "60 Minutes," and this would appear to be as perfect a capper to this illustrious career as Simon or his many fans could have hoped for: a portrait of legendary Metropolitan Opera conductor (and music director) James Levine.
The great CBS News reporter Bob Simon — who died Feb. 11 — has one final story Sunday for "60 Minutes," and this would appear to be as perfect a capper to this illustrious career as Simon or his many fans could have hoped for: a portrait of legendary Metropolitan Opera conductor (and music director) James Levine.
Feb 11, 2015: Yahoo News: CBS '60 Minutes' correspondent Bob Simon dies in car crash
Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon, who covered riots, Academy Award-nominated movies and wars and was held captive for more than a month in Iraq two decades ago, died in a car crash on Wednesday. He was 73.
Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon, who covered riots, Academy Award-nominated movies and wars and was held captive for more than a month in Iraq two decades ago, died in a car crash on Wednesday. He was 73.
Mar 25, 2014: TV Newser: The P.M. Ticker: NSA, ’60,’ Rapid…
11.3 million people watched Sunday’s “60 Minutes” making it the 6th most-watched show of the week, up +8% over the same night last year. Scott Pelley went inside the Boston bombing manhunt with the FBI agents in charge, Bob Simon reported on notorious European gem thieves, and Morley Safer had a feature on The New Yorker cartoons.
11.3 million people watched Sunday’s “60 Minutes” making it the 6th most-watched show of the week, up +8% over the same night last year. Scott Pelley went inside the Boston bombing manhunt with the FBI agents in charge, Bob Simon reported on notorious European gem thieves, and Morley Safer had a feature on The New Yorker cartoons.
Robert David "Bob" Simon (May 29, 1941 – February 11, 2015) was an American television correspondent for CBS News. During his career, he covered crises, war, and unrest in sixty-seven countries. Simon reported the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the Yom Kippur War in in 1973, and the student protests in China's Tiananmen Square in 1989. During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, he and four of his TV crew were captured and imprisoned by Iraq for forty days, about which experience he wrote a book, Forty Days. He became a regular correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes in 1996 and, in 1999, for 60 Minutes II.
