Celebrating the life of

Andy Rooney

14 Jan 2019 - 04 Nov 2011

Andy Rooney was an American radio and television writer. He was best known 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, of natural causes. Born 1919 in Albany, New York, he studied English at Colgate ... more

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31 Jul 2014

Karen Higdon Went to The Albany Academy from 1935 to 1937

Married to Marguerite Rooney for 62 years from 1942 to 2004

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Wrote a CBS special "Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed" which script won him his first Emmy

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Rooney was hospitalized after developing postoperative complications from an undisclosed surgery and passed away a week later

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Rooney's shorter television essays have been archived in numerous books, such as "Common Nonsense"

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Rooney's final regular appearance on 60 Minutes after 33 years on the show. It was his 1,097th commentary

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31 Jul 2014

Karen Higdon Won the Emperor Has No Clothes Award from the Freedom From Religion Foundation

31 Jul 2014

Karen Higdon Born 1919 in Albany, NY

31 Jul 2014

Karen Higdon Rooney wrote his first television essay, a longer-length precursor of the type he does on 60 Minutes, "An Essay on Doors"

31 Jul 2014

Karen Higdon Rooney wrote a memoir entitled "My War"

Wrote and appeared in the Peabody Award-winning "Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington"

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31 Jul 2014

Karen Higdon He was drafted into the United States Army

31 Jul 2014

Karen Higdon "Years of Minutes," probably Rooney's best-known work, is released

Rooney joined CBS in 1949, as a writer for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts

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31 Jul 2014

Karen Higdon He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Emmy

Rooney quit CBS and read "An Essay on War" himself on PBS when CBS refused to air it

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He also wrote the script for the 1975 documentary "FDR: The Man Who Changed America"

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Karen Higdon He began writing for "Stars and Stripes" in London during World War II

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Karen Higdon Rooney re-joined CBS in 1973, to write and produce special programs

31 Jul 2014

Karen Higdon Started studying English at Colgate University in Hamilton in Central New York from 1937 to 1941

CBS released a two-volume VHS tape set of the best of Rooney's commentaries and field reports is released

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Rooney's "end-of-show" segment on 60 Minutes, "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" began

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