- In 1976, became CBS' first-ever African-American correspondent to the White House.
- Graduate of Cheney State College.
- Ed Bradley's face replaced Mike Wallace's as the first face in the 60 Minutes (1968) introduction during Bradley's last season. Wallace was the first face on the introduction of 60 Minutes (1968) since the beginning of the show. After Bradley's passing, Steve Kroft became the first face.
- Ex-brother-in-law of Rita Coolidge.
- He was wounded in Cambodia in 1973.
- Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
- Was chief correspondent for "CBS Reports" from 1978 to 1981. His status there was such that the title was changed temporarily to "CBS Reports with Ed Bradley".
- Instead of finding a replacement for Ed Bradley, 60 Minutes (1968) producers decided to use all fill-in correspondents for Bradley's stories.
- Served as a radio host for "Jazz at Lincoln Center.".
- Received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards grand prize and television first prize for "CBS Reports: In the Killing Fields of America" (January 1995), a documentary about violence in America, for which he was co-anchor and reporter.
- Friends with Wynton Marsalis.
- The Denver Press Club awarded him its 2003 Damon Runyon Award for career journalistic excellence.
- Worked for free as an intern at WDAS-FM in Philadelphia, PA reading the news for the Georgie Woods show.
- Philadephia radio personality Georgie Woods once played a joke on him by setting the AP news wire ticker tape on fire while he was reading it. Bradley did not panic, he just kept reading the news faster until he finished the update.
- Ex-stepfather of Paul Satterfield.
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