Newsman Morley Safer Dies At 84: '60 Minutes' Star Helped Change War Reporting
Morley Safer, an old-style, in-the-trenches newsman who was among the first reporters to bring the horrors of the Vietnam War onto the TV sets and into the living rooms of average Americans, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 84 years old and had recently announced his retirement from his homebase of nearly half a century, the CBS Sunday news magazine 60 Minutes. Safer had been in declining he…