He wrote for Godfrey's daytime radio and TV show Arthur Godfrey Time. It was the beginning of a close lifelong friendship between Rooney and Godfrey.
The program was a hit, reaching number one in 1952 during Rooney's tenure. It opened the show up to a variety of viewers. Rooney joined CBS in 1949 as a writer for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, when Godfrey was at his peak on CBS radio and TV. He describes how it shaped his experience both as a writer and reporter. His 1995 memoir My War chronicles his war reporting and recounts several notable historical events and people from a first-hand view, including the entry into Paris and the Nazi concentration camps. Rooney was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal and Air Medal for his service as a war correspondent in combat zones during the war. 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. 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 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. Rooney rated the capture of the bridge as one of the top five events of the entire European war, alongside D-Day. "One of the great stories of the war had fallen into my lap." The bridge capture was front-page news in America. He was 32 km (20 mi) to the west when he heard that the bridge had been captured. He was the first journalist to reach the Ludendorff Bridge after the 9th Armored Division captured it on March 7, 1945. He was one of six correspondents who flew on the second American bombing raid over Germany in February 1943, flying with the Eighth Air Force. Rooney began his career in newspapers in 1942 while in the Army where he began writing for Stars and Stripes in London. He attended The Albany Academy, and later attended Colgate University in Hamilton in central New York, where he was initiated into the Sigma Chi fraternity, before he was drafted into the United States Army in August 1941. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired on Octohe died a month later at the age of 92.Īndrew Aitken Rooney was born in Albany, New York, the son of Walter Scott Rooney (1888–1959) and Ellinor (Reynolds) Rooney (1886–1980). Andrew Aitken Rooney (Janu– November 4, 2011) was an American radio and television writer who 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.
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