Bruce Morton
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Bruce Morton was a broadcast journalist and correspondent who spent nearly three decades with CBS News.
Born in Chicago, Morton grew up primarily in Chicago. He graduated from Harvard and served in the Army before embarking on his career. He got his start in radio and moved to national television with a job at CBS in 1964.
In the years that followed, he covered numerous high-profile stories, including the Vietnam War, presidential campaigns and the assassinations of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
Bruce Morton was a broadcast journalist and correspondent who spent nearly three decades with CBS News.
Born in Chicago, Morton grew up primarily in Chicago. He graduated from Harvard and served in the Army before embarking on his career. He got his start in radio and moved to national television with a job at CBS in 1964.
In the years that followed, he covered numerous high-profile stories, including the Vietnam War, presidential campaigns and the assassinations of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
He was particularly respected as a writer, and in 1976 he received a Peabody Award for his writing on the CBS Morning News. In 1989 he shared a Polk Award for coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests.
In 1993 he left CBS and moved to CNN, where he remained until 2006.
Morton died September 4, 2014, in Washington, D.C He was 83.
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