A biography for Ed Bradleyhasn’t been written yet.
“But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.”
“The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.”
“I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.”
“You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.”
“I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.”
“I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.”
“I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.”
“I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.”
“I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.”