Killing is the payoff of war.

They have a daughter Sarah Alice Anne Safer who is a graduate of Brown University and freelance journalist. Safer is also the author of the bestselling book Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam. In 1970 he left London to replace Harry Reasoner on 60 Minutes after Reasoner left to anchor the ABC Evening News (although Reasoner would return to 60 Minutes in 1978 alongside Safer).

Morley Safer (born November 8 1931) is a Canadian reporter and correspondent for CBS News.