Final Note

"60 Minutes" mainstay Morley Safer dead at 84

Kai Ryssdal May 19, 2016
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CBS correspondent Morley Safer in 2008.   Joe Corrigan/Getty Images
Final Note

"60 Minutes" mainstay Morley Safer dead at 84

Kai Ryssdal May 19, 2016
CBS correspondent Morley Safer in 2008.   Joe Corrigan/Getty Images
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Longtime CBS News correspondent Morley Safer died Thursday morning.

When I say long time, I mean 52 years — 46 of them at “60 Minutes.”

He talked to just about everyone about just about everything, including Bernie Madoff’s wife Ruth, after the former was sentenced to 150 years in prison for running the bigggest Ponzi scheme ever. Check out that tape above.

I used to watch him every Sunday night when I was a kid.

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