Morley Safer Biography

Fast Facts

• Embarked on his career in journalism with several small newspapers before landing a job as a correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Company
• Joined CBS News in 1964 as a correspondent in their London bureau
• Opened the Saigon bureau for CBS News in 1965
• While in Vietnam in 1965, reported on U
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• Marines burning the village of Cam Ne, which offered a glimpse of the war not previously seen in America
• President Lyndon Johnson was infuriated and tried to have him censored
• Was named London Bureau Chief in 1967, a post he held for three years
• Joined the staff of 60 Minutes in 1970
• Proposed to his wife by phone while reporting on the civil war in Nigeria
• Won numerous awards for his journalistic accomplishments, including two Alfred I
• duPont-Columbia University Awards and three Overseas Press Club Awards