- While a reporter for "Stars & Stripes" during WWII, Rooney covered the incident used in Steven Spielberg's The Mission (1985) episode of Amazing Stories (1985). The lower turret gunner of a B-17 is stuck in the ball (ventral) turret as the plane comes in for a belly (without wheels) landing. In real life, the ball gunner was killed on landing.
- Retired from 60 Minutes (1968) in October 2011 and died less than a month later.
- Member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity
- He won the Bronze Star for World War II reporting.
- Father-in-law of Cecile Callan.
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