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CBS News Legend Morley Safer Dies at 84

HeadlineMay 20, 2016

And CBS News legend Morley Safer has died at the age of 84. Safer was the longest-serving correspondent in “60 Minutes” history, filing a total 919 stories over his 46 years. As a young reporter, he filed one of the most significant stories of the Vietnam War, when he reported on U.S. marines torching the village of Cam Ne. The story changed the way the Vietnam War was reported. He received death threats after it was aired. Morley Safer died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was born here in Toronto.

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