Morley Safer
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| Born | November 8, 1931 Toronto, Ontario, Canada  |
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| Occupation | News Reporter |
| Spouse | Jane Fearer |
Morley Safer (born November 8, 1931) is a reporter and correspondent for CBS News. Safer was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He attended Harbord Collegiate Institute when he was young. He later graduated from University of Western Ontario.
Safer began his journalism career as a reporter for various newspapers in Canada and England. Later, he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a correspondent and producer.
In 1964, Safer joined CBS News as a London-based correspondent. In 1965, he opened the CBS News bureau in Saigon. That year he followed a group of United States Marines to the village of Cam Ne, for what was described as a "search and destroy" mission. When the Marines arrived, they gave orders in English to the inhabitants—by all accounts harmless civilians—to evacuate the village. When the homes were cleared, the Marines burned their thatched roofs with flamethrowers and Zippo lighters. Safer's report on this event was broadcast on CBS News on August 5, 1966 and was among the first reports to paint a bleak picture of the Vietnam War. President Lyndon Baines Johnson reacted to this report angrily, calling CBS's president and accusing Safer and his colleagues of having "shat on the American flag." Certain that Safer was a communist, Johnson also ordered a security check; upon being told that Safer 'wasn't a communist, just a Canadian', he responded "Well, I knew he wasn't an American." [1]
In 1967, Safer was named the London bureau chief, a post he held for three years. In 1970, he left London to join the CBS News program, 60 Minutes. Safer has been a 60 Minutes correspondent for over 35 years.
Safer is also the author of the bestselling book, Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam.
He and his wife, the former Jane Fearer, live in New York City. They have a daughter, Sarah, who is a graduate of Brown University.[2]
[edit] Awards
- 12-time Emmy Award winner
- 3-time Overseas Press Award winner
- 3-time George Foster Peabody Award winner
- 2-time Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award winner
- Winner of the Paul White Award from the Radio/Television News Directors Association (RTNDA)
- Recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
- Received the 2003 George Polk Memorial Career Achievement Award from Long Island University.
- Received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards’ first prize for domestic television for his insightful report about a controversial school, “School for the Homeless”
- Named a Chévalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1995
- Received Brown University's Welles Hangen Award for Superior Achievement in Journalism (1993)
- Recipient of The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence
[edit] References
- ^ Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2005, Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Anti-Vietnam War Protests in the San Francisco Bay Area & Beyond
- ^ Brown University, 1992, Morley Safer of CBS to receive University’s first Welles Hangen Award
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