Aaron Brown, a broadcast journalist best known for his CNN coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, has died. He was 76.
Brown’s death was announced Tuesday, Dec. 31, by his family, according to CNN. The legendary anchor died Sunday.
Per the outlet, Brown’s first appearance on CNN was on Sept. 11, 2001, the same day New York City’s World Trade Center was struck by tragedy.
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Brown reportedly hadn’t been scheduled to go on air that morning, but after hijacked airplanes hit the Twin Towers, the journalist jumped into action.
“When he was live on air, he just stopped and looked at it. And paused. And he shared this moment that everybody was thinking, ‘Good Lord. There are no words,’” CNN’s John Vause recalled.
Brown, who also appeared on World News Now and World News Tonight Saturday, anchored NewsNight from 2001 to 2005.
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Following Brown’s time on CNN, he served as the Rhodes Chair in Public Policy and American Institutions at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
“Aaron got to do the work that he loved,” said his wife, Charlotte Raynor, according to CNN, “and he felt lucky to do that work as part of a community of people who were dedicated to good journalism and who became good friends.”
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