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Robert Redford | 60 Minutes Archive
In an excerpt from a 60 Minutes interview in 2001, actor and Sundance founder Robert Redford discussed his career and his love for America. Redford died today at age 89.
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Preserving the story of 9/11 | 60 Minutes Archive
Lesley Stahl visited the 9/11 Museum in 2013, a year before it opened, and explored its most challenging debates and agonizing decisions.
Hurricane Katrina | 60 Minutes Archive
Scott Pelley visited New Orleans in 2005 just days after Hurricane Katrina hit and found a city in crisis.
Secretariat | 60 Minutes Archive
In 2013, 60 Minutes Sports looked back at Secretariat's historic Triple Crown victory 40 years earlier. Morley Safer spoke with the racehorse's owner, Penny Chenery, who passed away in 2017, and Hall of Fame rider Ron Turcotte, who died Friday at the age of 84.
"The Godfather of AI" | 60 Minutes Archive
In 2023, artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton shared his thoughts on AI's benefits and dangers with Scott Pelley, warning that there was no guaranteed path to safety as AI advanced.
Hiroshima | 60 Minutes Archive
It's been 80 years since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thirty years after the bombings, Morley Safer visited Japan to see what had become of the cities.
The history of Iran | 60 Minutes Archive
These three 60 Minutes stories illustrate how revolutionary powers came to be and help explain the current day conflict in Iran. From 1974 and 1976, Mike Wallace's interviews with the Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. And from 1979, Wallace's interview with Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, just weeks after the Iran Hostage Crisis began.
Free Diving | 60 Minutes Archive
In 2013, 60 Minutes' correspondent Bob Simon reported on the extreme sport of free diving, in which divers descend hundreds of feet down into the sea on one single breath.
Sir David Attenborough | 60 Minutes Archive
In 2020, Anderson Cooper interviewed Sir David Attenborough about his film "A Life on Our Planet." Treasured and beloved around the world, the Britain broadcaster turns 99 years old today.
Headlines. Deadlines. | 60 Minutes Archive
In 2022, when 60 Minutes reported on the decline of small-town newspapers, Jon Wertheim met Stewart Bainum, who was in the process of launching The Baltimore Banner. This week, the paper won a Pulitzer Prize in collaboration with the New York Times for local reporting on the fentanyl crisis.
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