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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

The AP via the New Zealand Herald reports [nzherald.co.nz] that the American television journalist Morley Safer has died at the age of 84. He had worked for CBS News for 52 years, including 46 years with the network's 60 Minutes [wikipedia.org] programme. He had retired from the company earlier this month.

He is noted for reporting the burning [pbs.org], after gunfire was said to have come from the area, of the Vietnamese village of Cam Ne by U.S. Marines in 1965. After the telecast, President Lyndon Johnson demanded Safer's dismissal [cbsnews.com], threatening to expose Safer's supposed "communist ties."

Safer said that his most important broadcast was a 1983 report [cbsnews.com] on Lenell Geter [people.com], an engineer who had been wrongly convicted of armed robbery.

In connection with its retrospective "Morley Safer: A Reporter's Life" which was broadcast 15 May, CBS uploaded the videos "Morley Safer retires from CBS News" [youtube.com] and "A look at Morley Safer's legendary 60 Minutes career." [youtube.com]

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