The Associated Press reports Simon was a passenger in a Lincoln Town Car that hit another vehicle on Manhattan's West Side on Wednesday night. Both Simon and the driver of that Town Car were taken to a hospital. Simon was later pronounced dead.
Simon's five-decade career found him covering everything from Vietnam to, most recently, the film "Selma," during what would be his final broadcast last weekend.
Simon won more than two-dozen Emmys over the course of his career. CBS News highlighted Simon's award-winning work in war-torn regions of the world:
But Simon's career in war reporting was extensive, beginning in Vietnam. While based in Saigon from 1971-72, his reports on the war -- and particularly the Hanoi 1972 spring offensive -- won an Overseas Press Club award award for the Best Radio Spot News for coverage of the end of the conflict. Simon was there for the end of the conflict and was aboard one of the last helicopters out of Saigon in 1975.
He also reported on the violence in Northern Ireland in from 1969-71 and also from war zones in Portugal, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia and American military actions in Grenada, Somalia and Haiti.
