Ed Bradley had a unique ability to not use his skin color to get the story. He knew it would be an issue but he never brought it up as ne didn't have to. Go ahead stare a black man in the face on camera and tell him why you are a racist on national TV. Most could not do it and he proved his point by just being there and having the guts to ask the right question. Tell me why?
In his early years he used an unflappable sense of gentility with humour to get his story. But he was brutal when the opportunity presented itself.
He was a gentleman and a world class reporter.
I admired the fact that while he knew his days were numbered he went after personal stories to him, those left unsolved, those stories not yet fully told. Tying up loose ends.
And, the stories he could relate to while knowing he was dying. He gave a perspective few could maintain under those conditions.
He was a mans man.
M2
