New York Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA, JOSEPH STEPANSKY, BILL HUTCHINSON, DENIS SLATTERY
60 Minutes” reporter Bob Simon, a survivor of numerous close calls as a war correspondent, was killed Wednesday in a horrific car crash on the West Side Highway.
The 73-year-old CBS veteran, who won 27 Emmy Awards in a career spanning five decades, had to be cut from a mangled livery cab that rear-ended a Mercedes-Benz and slammed into a concrete median near W. 30th St. Continue reading “Bob Simon, ’60 Minutes’ reporter and veteran war correspondent, killed in horrific crash on West Side Highway”