Bob Simon, ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent, Dies in Manhattan Car Crash at 73

Bob Simon, an award-winning CBS News correspondent whose career spanned
nearly 50 years and many major world conflicts, was killed in a car
crash in Manhattan on Wednesday, according to the network and the
authorities. He was 73.

Mr. Simon was a passenger in a livery cab that sideswiped a
Mercedes-Benz sedan stopped at a red light on 12th Avenue near West 30th
Street about 6:45 p.m., the police said. The cab then careened into the
median, crashing into the metal stanchions separating the northbound and
southbound traffic lanes. Mr. Simon was taken to Mount Sinai Roosevelt
Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The 44-year-old livery-cab driver was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center
with injuries to his legs and arms, the Fire Department said. The driver
of the Mercedes-Benz was not injured, according to the police.

The police said on Wednesday night that the accident was under
investigation.

Mr. Simon, who was in his 19th season as a correspondent for “60
Minutes,” won dozens of honors, including 27 Emmy Awards and four
Peabody Awards, in a career that dated to the 1960s. He covered many
major news events during the course of that career and, as a war
correspondent, was captured by Iraqi forces near the Saudi-Kuwaiti
border during the opening days of the Persian Gulf war in January 1991.
He wrote about the experience in his 1992 memoir, “40 Days.” The title
referred to the length of his captivity.

Mr. Simon was born on May 29, 1941, in the Bronx, and graduated Phi Beta
Kappa from Brandeis University in 1962 with a degree in history,
according to his biography page on the CBS website. Before joining CBS,
he worked as a Foreign Service officer from 1964 to 1967. He was also a
Fulbright scholar in France and a Woodrow Wilson scholar.

His survivors include his wife, Françoise, and their daughter, Tanya,
who is a producer for “60 Minutes” in New York.


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