Ed Bradley (1941–2006) was an American broadcast journalist best known for reporting with 60 Minutes and CBS News. Bradley started his television news career in 1971 as a stringer for CBS at the Paris Peace Accords. He won Alfred I. duPont and George Polk awards for his coverage of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. Returning to the United States, he became CBS's first Black White House correspondent. Bradley joined 60 Minutes in 1981 and reported on more than 500 stories with the program during his career, the most of any of his colleagues. Known for his fashion sense and disarming demeanor, Bradley won numerous journalism awards for his reporting, which has been credited with prompting federal investigations into psychiatric hospitals, lowering the cost of drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS, and ensuring that the accused in the Duke lacrosse case received a fair trial. He died of lymphocytic leukemia in 2006.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1924:
Brazilian Army rebels launched an uprising in São Paulo against President Artur Bernardes, who authorized the bombing of the city in response. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_Revolt_of_1924
1969:
Two days after the death of their founder Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones performed at a free festival in Hyde Park, London, in front of more than a quarter of a million fans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stones_in_the_Park
2009:
The Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items (examples pictured), was found near Hammerwich in Staffordshire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_Hoard
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
stampede: 1. A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals, usually caused by fright. 2. (by extension) 3. A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to move in the same direction at the same time, especially in consequence of a panic. 4. (Canada, US) An event at which cowboy skills are displayed; a rodeo. 5. (figurative) A sudden unconcerted acting together of a number of persons due to, or as if due to, some common impulse. 6. (transitive) 7. To cause (a drove or herd of animals) to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright. 8. To cause animals (owned by a person) to run away or scamper in this manner. 9. (by extension) To cause (people in a crowd) to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic. 10. (by extension) To cause (an individual) to act hastily or rashly. 11. (figurative) To cause (people) to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse. 12. (intransitive) 13. Of a drove or herd of animals: to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright. 14. (by extension) Of people in a crowd: to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic. 15. (figurative) Of people: to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stampede
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. --Jean Cocteau https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Cocteau