R.I.P.: CBS, CNN Correspondent Bruce Morton

Bruce Morton

Bruce Morton, a longtime correspondent for CBS and CNN, passed away Friday at his home in Washington, D.C.

He was 83, according to CBS News.

Morton worked for CBS News for 29 years, from 1964-93. He was a congressional correspondent and also anchored the "CBS Morning News" in the 1970s. After leaving CBS News in 1993, he worked at CNN as a national correspondent before retiring in 2006.

Morton won many awards could tell many journalism war stories of covering Vietnam, the My Lai massacre trial of U.S. Army officer William Calley, the Tiananmen Square revolt in China, Watergate and many other stories.


Morton joined CBS News as a reporter in the Washington Bureau in 1964 and was elevated to correspondent in 1966. Before that, he had reported for nearly 10 years from the nation's capital and from abroad for other news organizations. He reported on conflicts in Africa for ABC News (1962-'64). He was a London and Washington correspondent for News Associated and Radio Press before that.

In the late 1950s, Morton was a reporter and editor for the local NBC-owned station in Pittsburgh, a role he assumed after serving as a general assistant for the New York NBC-owned station. He got his start in the news business while still a student at Harvard in Boston, where he wrote and read radio newscasts for WORL.

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