Bruce Morton, an award-winning reporter during what CBS News veterans considered the organization’s glory days, from the 1960s through the 1980s, died on Friday at his home in Washington. He was 83.

The cause was complications of cancer, his daughter, Sarah Morton, said.

Mr. Morton, who later worked at CNN, gained a reputation as a solid reporter of expansive breadth and expertise, with special gifts as a writer. He covered most of the major news events of the era, including the Vietnam War, the space program, racial unrest, the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy and the Watergate scandal.

He won six Emmy Awards for his work at CBS News, including one for his coverage of the trial of Lt. William Calley for crimes related to the massacre at My Lai in Vietnam. He also won a Peabody Award in 1976 for his “incisive writing” on “The CBS Morning News” and shared a Polk Award for CBS’s coverage of the protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989.

“Bruce was a big part of CBS News when it was the best it ever was,” the veteran CBS newsman Bob Schieffer, who now anchors “Face the Nation,” said in an interview on Friday.