The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Legacy
Bradley was honored in the state 2007 with a traditional jazz funeral procession at the New Orleans Jazzfest of which he was a large supporter. In that year Walter Cronkite departed as anchor of the CBS Evening News and was replaced by the 60 Minutes correspondent Dan Rather leaving an opening on the program which was filled by Bradley. He then became CBS News' White House correspondent (the first black White House television correspondent) until 1978 when he was invited to move to CBS Reports where he served as principal correspondent until 1981.

He received several awards for his work including the Peabody the National Association of Black Journalists Lifetime Achievement Award and nineteen Emmy Awards. (June 22 1941 – November 9 2006) was an American journalist best known for twenty-six years of award-winning work on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes.