Philadelphia Honors Journalist Ed Bradley with Hometown Historical Marker

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A historical marker celebrating the life of broadcaster Ed Bradley is unveiled at Fairmount Park West. Bradley’s wife, Patricia Blanchet (second from right) was in attendance along with city and state officials.
Emma Lee

Ed Bradley, the television journalist who worked for “60 Minutes” for 26 years and died in 2006, now has a historic marker in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission is honoring the Philadelphia native with a blue marker close to where Bradley first worked as a reporter.

(Original air-date: 10/17/21)

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WHYY’s arts and culture reporter Peter Crimmins first became interested in radio in the fourth grade, when he smuggled a contraband crystal-diode radio into the Boy Scout summer camp. Subsequent radio projects were more successful.