Sons called in FBI to arrest Bernie Madoff
"We knew that we couldn't live with this information and not do something about it."
That's what Andrew Madoff, son of Bernard Madoff, told Morley Safer about his decision to call in the FBI after his father revealed to the family that he had been running the world's largest Ponzi Scheme.
This week on Overtime, we delve into that moment in the Madoff story - excerpting a dramatic part of Morley's interview in which Andrew describes blowing the whistle on his father. And we hear from Andrew's mother Ruth. When did she learn that her sons Mark and Andrew had turned in their father?
Best friends forever, fighting cancer together
"I was as big time as it gets," linebacker Mark Herzlich recalls about his junior year at Boston College. At 6' 4" tall, Herzlich was 240 pounds of high-speed muscle and determination. After graduation, the All-American was expected to grab the golden ring of sports and be chosen in the first round of the NFL draft.
But Herzlich's life didn't go that way. In the spring of 2009, Herzlich was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma. It's rare bone cancer, striking fewer than 400 Americans a year, and it can be deadly: 30% don't survive.
As Byron Pitts reports this week on "60 Minutes" - "for the next two years, Mark Herzlich would wage two battles: one of his life, the other for a future in football."
Ruth Madoff: Why she's telling her story
There are many reasons people decide to talk to "60 Minutes." Some want to clear their name; some want to make sure their side of the story gets told; some just love the attention; and some want to alert the public to corruption or danger.
Of all the myriad reasons we've heard in 44 seasons of "60 Minutes," the rationale of Ruth Madoff - wife of imprisoned financial fraudster Bernie Madoff - was a stunning first. We're not going to spoil it for you by revealing Ruth's reasons. You need to watch it on "60 Minutes Overtime" and find out for yourself.
On "60 Minutes" this week, Ruth and her son Andrew Madoff told their stories publically for the first time - how in December 2008 Bernie Madoff admitted to his family that he'd been running a massive Ponzi scheme. He was arrested by the FBI the next day.
The man who tried to stop Madoff
It's bad enough that Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme left thousand of lives in financial ruin. It only gets worse when you consider the story of Harry Markopolos.
In 1999, while working as a financial analyst in a Boston investment firm, Markopolos was asked to figure out how Madoff's investments seemed to return such consistent dividends, year in and year out.
What did Steve Jobs say about his rivals?
"They just don't get it." That's how Steve Jobs described his digital rivals Microsoft and Google in an interview with his biographer Walter Isaacson.
For his just-released biography, "Steve Jobs," Isaacson conducted more than 40 taped interviews with the Apple co-founder and CEO - all of them done while Apple was on its ascent with one great product after another, but Jobs was on his decline, ill with a form of pancreatic cancer that would end his life at age 56.
Steve Jobs: Family photo album
College student Reed Jobs decided to study oncology after seeing his father, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, battle cancer. Reed's younger sister Eve is a great horseback rider, and their sister Erin has her father's great sense for design. And the eldest, Lisa, who was estranged from her father when she was young, became very close with him in recent years.
These are some of the insights that Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson shared with 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft as the two browsed through some Jobs family photos - on an iPad, of course.
Temple Grandin: Understanding autism
In the world of autism and autism research, there is no one of greater stature than Temple Grandin. As Lesley Stahl says in this week's Overtime Correspondent Candid, "She's one of those rare people with autism who can explain autism. She's a sort of interpreter of autism for the rest of us."
For parents of autistic children, for scientists who study autism, for teachers and caregivers who work with autistic children and adults, Grandin's insights have been groundbreaking and immeasurably helpful.
The death of Qaddafi
When "60 Minutes" profiled Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in 2001, he was a man firmly in control of his country. Even though he'd been called a terrorist and a tyrant for 30 years, and even though Libya had been implicated in the bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, Qaddafi told Charlie Rose that he wanted to make peace with the West.
Pelley: A decade of reporting from Afghanistan
"On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against Al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan."
With those words, spoken by President George W. Bush one month after the 9/11 terror attacks, the war in Afghanistan -- "Operation Enduring Freedom" -- began.
This week on "60 Minutes," Scott Pelley marks the tenth anniversary of the war with his report from Afghanistan, "Running the War."
Virtual van Gogh
On "60 Minutes Overtime" this week, we time-travel back to a small town outside Paris in 1890, where a new resident named Vincent van Gogh was painting the town red . . . and green, blue, orange.
The paintings that van Gogh created when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise are among his most memorable and beautiful, and through the magic of 3D computer graphics and our state-of-the-art high definition studio, this week on Overtime, Morley Safer gives a stunning insider's tour of the town and other places where the restless painter lived.
