Andy Rooney

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Andy Rooney

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Andrew Aitken Rooney January 14, 1919 Albany, New York[1] November 4, 2011 (aged 92) New York City, New York The weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" on 60 Minutes Emmy 2003 Lifetime Achievement 1980 "Tanks" 1980 "Grain" 1978 "Who Owns What in America" 1968 "Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed" Marguerite Rooney (m. 19422004) (her death) Brian, Emily, Martha, Ellen

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Andrew Aitken "Andy" Rooney (January 14, 1919 November 4, 2011) was an American radio and television writer. He was most notable for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney," a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired October 2, 2011. He died one month later, on November 4, 2011, at age 92.

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1 Early life 2 World War II 3 Career 4 A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney 5 Controversies o 5.1 Comments on minorities o 5.2 Remarks on Kurt Cobain's suicide 6 Collections and retirement 7 Views 8 Personal life 9 Death 10 Awards 11 Books 12 References 13 External links

Early life
Andrew Rooney was born in Albany, the son of Walter Scott Rooney (18881959) and Ellinor (Reynolds) Rooney (18861980). He attended The Albany Academy,[2] and later attended Colgate University in Hamilton in Central New York,[3] where he was initiated into the Sigma Chi fraternity, before he was drafted into the United States Army in August 1941.

World War II
Rooney began his career in newspapers while in the Army when, in 1942, he began writing for Stars and Stripes in London during World War II.[4] In February 1943, flying with the Eighth Air Force, he was one of six correspondents who flew on the second American bombing raid over Germany.[5] Later, he was one of the first American journalists to visit the Nazi concentration camps near the end of World War II, and one of the first to write about them. During a segment on Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, Rooney stated that he had been opposed to World War II because he was a pacifist. He recounted that what he saw in those concentration camps made him ashamed that he had opposed the war and permanently changed his opinions about whether "just wars" exist. For his service as a war correspondent in combat zones during the war Rooney was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal and Air Medal.[6] Rooney's 1995 memoir, My War, chronicles his war reporting. In addition to recounting firsthand several notable historical events and people (including the entry into Paris and the Nazi concentration camps), Rooney describes how it shaped his experience both as a writer and reporter.[5]