CBS News confirmed that the longtime television journalist died Wednesday night in New York. He was 73.
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Simon, 73, also worked as a foreign correspondent in his five-decade news career.
He was a passenger in a livery cab on the West Side Highway in Manhattan Wednesday evening, the New York Post reported. The Lincoln Town Car collided with a Mercedes, the Post reported.
Simon was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
His work took him to Northern Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus, The Falklands, the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia, Grenada, Somalia, Haiti, and Poland. In 1987, he was named CBS' chief Middle East correspondent, and he worked out of a bureau in Tel Aviv for 20 years.
In 1991, Simon and his team were reporting on the beginning of the Gulf War when they were captured by Iraqi forces.
They spent 40 days in an Iraqi prison, an experience he recounted in a book, Forty Days.
He returned to Iraq several times to continue to report on conflicts. He began contributing to 60 Minutes in 1996, most recently covering the film Selma as well as internet security.
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