RIP: Morley Safer

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/morley-safer-dead-60-minutes-758811

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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Hi Robert,

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RIP: Morley Safer

WOW!!! CBS News just did a one hour program on him this past Sunday.

Jerry Baumchen

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JerryBaumchen

Hi Robert,

Quote

RIP: Morley Safer

WOW!!! CBS News just did a one hour program on him this past Sunday.

Jerry Baumchen

I's tellin ya.. that retiring shit is lethal.

[oldwomanc6 38]

Amazon

***Hi Robert,

Quote

RIP: Morley Safer

WOW!!! CBS News just did a one hour program on him this past Sunday.

Jerry Baumchen

I's tellin ya.. that retiring shit is lethal.

Especially if you are male.

Men just hate to be home with nothing to do.

lisa
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In 1965, Safer showed U.S. Marines torching a Vietnamese village with flame-throwers and Zippo lighters, while the villagers—men, women, and children—bitterly sobbed while their homes were set ablaze.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson demanded Safer’s sacking for the report that exposed the truth about the war in Vietnam.
“Your boys shat on the American flag,” LBJ fumed to CBS President Frank Stanton, adding that this obviously unpatriotic scoundrel was probably a Communist.
Drawing on CBS News lore, 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager recalled in an interview with The Daily Beast that when LBJ was informed that Safer was not a Commie, but simply a Canadian, the Leader of the Free World replied, “I knew there was something about him.”



Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/13/cbs-celebrates-morley-safer-s-60-minutes-of-fame.html

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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ryoder

In 1965, Safer showed U.S. Marines torching a Vietnamese village with flame-throwers and Zippo lighters, while the villagers—men, women, and children—bitterly sobbed while their homes were set ablaze.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson demanded Safer’s sacking for the report that exposed the truth about the war in Vietnam.
“Your boys shat on the American flag,” LBJ fumed to CBS President Frank Stanton, adding that this obviously unpatriotic scoundrel was probably a Communist.
Drawing on CBS News lore, 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager recalled in an interview with The Daily Beast that when LBJ was informed that Safer was not a Commie, but simply a Canadian, the Leader of the Free World replied, “I knew there was something about him.”



Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/13/cbs-celebrates-morley-safer-s-60-minutes-of-fame.html

My step father was a cameraman for WBBM for 45 years and I got to meet some of the great icons over the years when I was young going to functions at the station.....Many of those people gone and others are leaving now. CBS had a group of really great journalists in those early days of Television.