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Mr. Safer, center, behind the scenes at “60 Minutes” in 1975. With him are, clockwise from the top, Dan Rather, Mike Wallace and Don Hewitt, the program’s creator.
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Morley Safer
Died on May 19, 2016 at age 84
A CBS television correspondent, Mr. Safer brought the horrors of the Vietnam War into the living rooms of America in the 1960s and was a mainstay of the network’s newsmagazine “60 Minutes” for almost five decades.
Notable Deaths 2016
Remembering Muhammad Ali, Prince, Patty Duke, Edward Albee, Pat Summitt, Gene Wilder, Phyllis Schlafly, David Bowie, Elie Wiesel, Shimon Peres, Nancy Reagan, Arnold Palmer, Harper Lee and others who died this year.