How Bill Gates' school launched his life's work
How did the mother's club at Bill Gates' high school set him on a path to change the world? By holding a rummage sale to buy the school's first teletype, the machine that would connect 13-year-old Gates and his friend Paul Allen to a world of possibility in personal computing. The two men went on to found Microsoft and wrote the software that fueled the PC revolution.
Continue Reading »Bill Clinton tried to get Led Zeppelin back together
This week, Scott Pelley brought us the remarkable story of the Robin Hood Foundation, a unique charity that has figured out how to (as Pelley put it) shake wealthy donors "by their ankles" in order to help New Yorkers living in poverty. Last year, Robin Hood also managed to shake the whole country by its ankles: They were the ones behind the televised 12-12-12 concert at Madison Square Garden, which raised $50 million to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy.
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Can this 60 Minutes producer outrun a dog?
This week on 60 Minutes, Lara Logan took us into the secretive world of elite military dogs. These animals are not pets. They are "dogs of war," and much of what they do for for U.S. Special Operations and specialized units in the FBI remains classified. We know they can jump out of helicopters on a mission, capture enemies on the battlefield, and sniff out the kind of IEDs used by the Boston Marathon bombers. One of these dogs even helped Navy SEAL Team 6 capture Osama bin Laden.
Continue Reading »Resources for sexual abuse victims from R.A. Dickey
In the world of baseball, it was the knuckleball pitch that saved R.A. Dickey's career, but as the Toronto Blue Jays' pitcher told Lesley Stahl on Sunday night, it wasn't the knuckleball alone that turned the tide.
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R.A. Dickey on the moment he hit rock bottom
"R.A.'s story is more than a story about baseball," 60 Minutes producer Rich Bonin told us. "It's a story about life." During R.A. Dickey's emotional 60 Minutes interview, the great knuckleball pitcher talked openly about the darkest moments of his life -- from the sexual abuse he suffered at age 8 to his depression and the extramarital affair that almost ended his marriage. In this week's 60 Minutes Overtime, you'll hear Dickey share something he's never discussed in public before: how close he came to ending his own life.
Continue Reading »How to connect with the Newtown families
It's been four months since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and some of the grieving parents who told their story to Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes this week say they've only just begun to find their voices on the issues they care about. Many of the Newtown parents have created funds and organizations to honor their children's memories, and in the above video player, 60 Minutes producer Henry Schuster discusses what these efforts mean to the grieving families.
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