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(CBS)  Sunday, July 12, 2009
KILL BIN LADEN - The officer who led the army’s Delta Force mission to kill Osama bin Laden after 9/11 reveals what really happened in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, when the al-Qaeda leader narrowly escaped. Scott Pelley reports. Shawn Efran is the producer.

EYEWITNESS - Lesley Stahl reports on flaws in eyewitness testimony that are at the heart of the DNA exonerations of falsely convicted people like Ronald Cotton, who has forgiven his accuser, Jennifer Thompson. Shari Finkelstein is the producer. THIS IS A DOUBLE-LENGTH SEGMENT.

Sunday, July 5, 2009
SAVING FLIGHT 1549 - Hero pilot Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and his flight crew together reveal for the first time the sights, sounds and physical sensations they experienced as they pulled off an incredible water landing last month, saving the lives of all 155 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549. Katie Couric reports. Michael Radutzky, Tanya Simon and Lori Beecher are the producers. THIS IS A EXTRA-LENGTH STORY

BON JOVI - Jon Bon Jovi and his band are still filling arenas and producing hit albums 26 years after breaking out of the local New Jersey music scene. Steve Kroft reports. John Hamlin is the producer.

Sunday, June 28, 2009
THE CHEATERS - 60 MINUTES and The Washington Post reveal how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That's because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints. Steve Kroft and The Washington Post's Gilbert Gaul report. Ira Rosen is the producer.

MIND READING - Neuroscience has learned so much about how we think and the brain activity linked to certain thoughts that it is now possible - on a very basic scale - to read a person’s mind. Lesley Stahl reports. Shari Finkelstein is the producer.

GORONGOSA - American Greg Carr is using his great wealth to try to help some of the poorest people in Africa by attracting more tourists to their neighborhood - the beautiful national park of Gorongosa in Mozambique. Scott Pelley reports. Rebecca Peterson and Henry Schuster are the producers.

Sunday, June 21, 2009
A CLEAN VERSION OF HELL - Exclusive footage from within and a rare interview with its former warden takes viewers inside the secretive "Supermax" federal prison, where the nation’s most dangerous and infamous criminals -- including terrorists -- are held under the strictest rules. Scott Pelley reports. Henry Schuster is the producer.

THE WAR NEXT DOOR - Drug-cartel fueled violence has turned into a war in Mexico, with thousands of deaths and the government battling well-armed gangs whose military-quality weapons come mostly from U.S. dealers. Anderson Cooper reports. Kyra Darnton, Anya Bourg and Ana Real are the producers.

LEBRON - Steve Kroft profiles the Cleveland Cavalier's superstar, LeBron James, who at only 24, is already among an elite handful of athletes who command tens of millions a year in playing and marketing fees. Harry Radliffe is the producer.

Sunday, June 14, 2009
THE MAN WHO KNEW - Harry Markopolos repeatedly told the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bernie Madoff's investment fund was a fraud. He was ignored, however, and investors lost billions of dollars. Steve Kroft reports. Andy Court and Keith Sharman are the producers.

FOR BETTER OR WORSE - Foreigners who marry Americans are entitled to become permanent residents of the U.S., but in a stricter post-9/11 world, hundreds of widows are being asked to leave the country because their husbands died - even some whose children were born in the U.S. Bob Simon reports. Robert Anderson is the producer.

THE MOTHER OF SLOW FOOD - She has been cooking and preaching the virtues of fresh food grown in an environmentally friendly way for decades. A world-class restaurant and eight cookbooks to her credit, Alice Waters has become famous for her "slow food" approach - an antidote to fast food. Lesley Stahl reports. Ruth Streeter is the producer.

Sunday, June 7, 2009
THE CHAIRMAN - In a rare interview with a sitting Federal Reserve chairman - the first in 20 years - Ben Bernanke tells Scott Pelley what went wrong with America's financial system, how it caused the current economic crisis, what the Fed's doing to help fix it and when he expects the crippling recession to end. Henry Schuster is the producer. This is a double-length segment.

DOLLY - Dolly Parton, the oh-so-country music superstar with the city-slicker sense of show business, talks to Morley Safer about her childhood, her career and the Broadway production of her film, "9 to 5." David Browning and Diane Beasley are the producers.

Sunday, May 31, 2009
YOUR BANK HAS FAILED - Scott Pelley has an exclusive look as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation takes control of a failed bank. Henry Schuster is the producer.

WAR IN PAKISTAN - Steve Kroft reports from Pakistan, where Islamic insurgents are trying to take over the country and he interviews its new president, Asif Ali Zardari. Draggan Mihailovich is the producer.

MICHAEL PHELPS - He swam into history at the Beijing Olympics and now the 23-year-old phenom tells CNN's Anderson Cooper what his life is like as hundreds of endorsement opportunities roll in to make this U.S. Olympic superstar a marketing millionaire. Draggan Mihailovich is the producer.

Sunday, May 24, 2009
BUY AMERICAN - The economic stimulus package includes a "buy American" clause that the steel and other U.S. industries lobbied hard for. However, American businesses that export overseas now fear foreign governments will retaliate and keep U.S. products out of their market, hurting their business. Lesley Stahl reports. Shachar Bar-On is the producer.

SERGEANT BILL - Waving a badge he bought on the Internet and claiming to belong to the "Multi-jurisdictional Narcotics Task Force," Bill Jakob fooled a small town's officials into granting him the authority of a law enforcement officer. Katie Couric reports. Kyra Darnton is the producer.

WINE RX - Scientists have found a substance called resveratrol in red wine that slows down the aging process in mice. Will it someday lengthen the lives of humans, too? Morley Safer reports. Deirdre Naphin and Katy Textor are the producers.

Sunday, May 17, 2009
SECRETARY OF WAR - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates discusses the war in Afghanistan in a candid and wide-ranging interview with Katie Couric, who accompanied him to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. Robert Anderson and Lori Beecher are the producers.

AIG - Ed Liddy, the man who took over the reins of out-of-control American International Group - the failed insurance giant to which the government has made $180 billion available in aid - speaks to Steve Kroft about the gargantuan task ahead. Andy Court and Keith Sharman are the producers.

ANNA WINTOUR - The sunglasses come off the high-queen of haute couture in this rare and unprecedented interview, in which the Vogue editor reveals why she always wears them and much more to Morley Safer in her first long-length interview for U.S. television. Ruth Streeter is the producer.

Sunday, May 10, 2009
AMERICA'S NEW AIR FORCE - Increasingly, the U.S. military is relying on un-manned, often armed aircraft to track and destroy the enemy - sometimes controlled from bases thousands of miles away from the battlefront. Lara Logan reports. Max McClellan and Jeff Newton are the producers.

THE PERFECT SPY - Steve Kroft examines one of the most mysterious cases in the annals of modern espionage: the curious life and death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian billionaire claimed by both Israelis and Egyptians to be their greatest spy. Ira Rosen and Sumi Aggarwal are the producers.

STAT MAN - Bill James doesn't run, hit or catch a baseball but his intense statistical analysis of the game and its players have made him an essential ingredient in a formula that brought two world championships to the Boston Red Sox. Morley Safer reports. Deirdre Naphin is the producer.

Sunday, May 3, 2009
AMAZON CRUDE - Ecuadorians are suing oil giant Chevron, the owner of Texaco, because they say oil drilling in the Amazon jungle by Texaco polluted their fragile environment. Scott Pelley reports. Draggan Mihailovich is the producer.

REEDUCATING BIN LADEN'S DISCIPLES - Saudi Arabia, the native country of most of the 9/11 terrorists, says it is attempting to change the mindsets of jihadists formerly loyal to Osama bin Laden through a re-education program. David Martin reports. Mary Walsh is the producer.

ALL IN THE FAMILY - The Antinoris have been in the wine business for 600 years - maybe the oldest family business on earth - reports Morley Safer, from its vineyards in Tuscany, Italy. David Browning is the producer.

Sunday, April 26, 2009
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN - In this profile of Joe Biden, Lesley Stahl spends three days with the vice president and also interviews his wife, Jill Biden, Ph.D., and his boss, President Barack Obama. Karen Sughrue is the producer

POWERED BY COAL - Coal is America's most abundant and cheap fossil fuel, but burning it happens to be the biggest contributor to global warming. Scott Pelley reports. David Gelber and Joel Bach are the producers.

THE ORPHANAGE - Ivory is selling for nearly $1,000 a tusk, causing more elephants to be slaughtered and more orphaned babies in need of special care provided by an elephant orphanage in Kenya. Bob Simon reports. Michael Gavshon is the producer.

Sunday, April 19, 2009
401(K) RECESSION - Never created to be a mainstay of workers' retirement funds, 401(k)s became just that to millions of Americans who are now facing uncertain futures because of the devastating losses in the stock market. Steve Kroft reports. Ira Rosen is the producer.

COLD FUSION IS HOT AGAIN - Presented in 1989 as a revolutionary new source of energy, cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science. But today, the buzz among scientists is that these experiments produce a real physical effect that could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production. Scott Pelley reports. Denise Schrier Cetta is the producer.

BLOOD BROTHERS - Matador Cayetano Ordonez nearly dies during this segment when he’s battered by a bull in a Bob Simon report about him and his brother Francisco - Spain's remarkable bullfighting family - who these days are creating just as much drama outside the ring as in it. Michael Gavshon and Paul Bellinger are the producers.

Sunday, April 12, 2009
THE DEKA ARM - New technology is making it possible for amputees to pick up small, delicate objects they never thought they would master thanks to the biggest innovation in prosthetic arms since World War II. Scott Pelley reports. Denise Schrier Cetta is the producer.

GUN RUSH - Americans are snapping up guns and ammunition at an increasingly higher rate despite the economic downturn. But as Lesley Stahl reports, the economic downturn, as well as the election of Barack Obama, may be the reason for the run on guns. Shachar Bar-On is the producer.

STEVE WYNN - The casino mogul most responsible for taking Las Vegas to new heights of gaming and glitter talks to Charlie Rose about his spectacular success and the eye disease that's slowly robbing him of his ability to see the fruits of his labor. Catherine Olian is the producer.

Sunday, April 5, 2009
CLOSING THE CLINIC - The economic crisis is affecting society's most vulnerable as a county hospital is forced by budget cuts to close an outpatient cancer clinic. Scott Pelley reports. Shawn Efran and Catherine Herrick are the producers.

TORTURE IN IRAN - In his first U.S. television interview, Ahmad Batebi tells CNN's Anderson Cooper how he was tortured during his eight years in an Iranian prison and how he was finally able to escape. Robert Anderson is the producer.

DOLLY - Dolly Parton, the oh-so-country music superstar with the city-slicker sense of show business talks to Morley Safer about her childhood, her career and the Broadway production of her film, "9 to 5." David Browning and Diane Beasley are the producers.

Sunday, March 29, 2009
THE INTERNET IS INFECTED - Lesley Stahl reports on computer viruses that propagate on the Internet and infect PCs, which enable their creators - often called cyber gangs - to learn the information they need to electronically rob bank accounts. Karen Sughrue is the producer.

POISONED - The African lion, already down as much as 85 percent in numbers from just 20 years ago, is now in danger of becoming extinct because people are poisoning them with a cheap American pesticide to protect their cattle herds. Bob Simon reports. Michael Gavshon and Drew Magratten are the producers.

LEBRON - Steve Kroft profiles the Cleveland Cavaliers' superstar, LeBron James, who at only 24, is already among an elite handful of athletes who command tens of millions a year in playing and marketing fees. Harry Radliffe is the producer.

Sunday, March 22, 2009
PRESIDENT OBAMA - The president discusses the most pressing issues of his first two months in office, including the economy, the bailouts, his budget and America's involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Steve Kroft will talk to Barack Obama in the Oval Office for the interview, expected to be longer than any other he has granted. Michael Radutzky and Frank Devine are the producers.

MR. AYERS AND MR. LOPEZ - Discovered living on the streets by Los Angeles Times newspaper columnist Steve Lopez, mentally ill musician Nathaniel Ayers has become the subject of a book by Lopez and now a Hollywood film. Morley Safer reports. David Browning is the producer.

Sunday, March 15, 2009
THE CHAIRMAN - In a rare interview with a sitting Federal Reserve chairman - the first in 20 years - Ben Bernanke tells Scott Pelley what went wrong with America's financial system, how it caused the current economic crisis, what the Fed's doing to help fix it and when he expects the crippling recession to end. Henry Schuster and Rebecca Peterson are the producers. This is a double-length segment.

ALICE WATERS - She has been cooking and preaching the virtues of fresh food grown in an environmentally friendly way for decades. A world-class restaurant and eight cookbooks to her credit, she's become famous for her "slow food" approach - an antidote to fast food. Lesley Stahl reports. Ruth Streeter is the producer.

Sunday, March 8, 2009
YOUR BANK HAS FAILED - Scott Pelley has an exclusive look as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation takes control of a failed bank. Henry Schuster is the producer.

EYEWITNESS - Lesley Stahl reports on flaws in eyewitness testimony that are at the heart of the DNA exonerations of falsely convicted people like Ronald Cotton, who has forgiven his accuser, Jennifer Thompson. Shari Finkelstein is the producer. (This is a double-length segment.)

Sunday, March 1, 2009
THE MAN WHO KNEW - Harry Markopolos repeatedly told the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bernie Madoff's investment fund was a fraud. He was ignored, however, and investors lost billions of dollars. Steve Kroft reports. Andy Court and Keith Sharman are the producers.

THE WAR NEXT DOOR - Drug-cartel fueled violence has turned into a war in Mexico, with thousands of deaths and the government battling well-armed gangs whose military-quality weapons come mostly from U.S. dealers. Anderson Cooper reports. Kyra Darnton and Anya Bourg are the producers.

BOBBY JINDAL - He's been called the Republican Obama and some think he may run for the presidency some day. But his opposition speech after the president's address to Congress this week caused some to say he's too young and inexperienced. Morley Safer profiles the governor of Louisiana. Deirdre Naphin and Katy Textor are the producers.

Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009
THE DRINKING AGE - Lesley Stahl examines the debate over lowering the drinking age to 18, a controversial idea embraced by some people and roundly criticized by groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Ruth Streeter is the producer.

KIDNAPPED IN BASRA - When the Iraqi army regained control of the city of Basra from warring religious militias, it meant peace for the city's war-torn residents and rescue for CBS News producer Richard Butler, who had been held captive there for three months. Lara Logan reports. Peter Klein is the producer.

THE MASCOT - A young Jewish boy who fled into the forest after his family was killed by the Nazis was later captured by Nazi soldiers who, not knowing he was Jewish, gave him a little uniform and a gun and made him their mascot. Bob Simon reports. Robert Anderson is the producer.

Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009
BUY AMERICAN - The economic stimulus package includes a "buy American" clause that the steel and other U.S. industries lobbied hard for. However, American businesses that export overseas now worry foreign governments will retaliate and keep U.S. products out of their market, hurting their business. Lesley Stahl reports. Shachar Bar-On is the producer.

WORLD OF TROUBLE - Three years before the housing market crash, Paul Bishop says he warned his superiors at World Savings - the nation's second largest savings and loan company - that many of the mortgages they were granting were misleading and predatory. Scott Pelley reports. Graham Messick is the producer.

WAR IN PAKISTAN - Steve Kroft reports from Pakistan, where Islamic insurgents are trying to take over the country and he interviews its new president, Asif Ali Zardari. Draggan Mihailovich is the producer.

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009
SAVING FLIGHT 1549 - Hero pilot Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and his flight crew together reveal for the first time the sights, sounds and physical sensations they experienced as they pulled off an incredible water landing last month, saving the lives of all 155 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549. Katie Couric reports. Michael Radutzky, Tanya Simon, Lori Beecher, Jenny Dubin and Andrew Metz are the producers. THIS IS A EXTRA-LENGTH STORY

COLDPLAY - The British rock group that has taken its place among the most popular bands in the world gives 60 MINUTES a rare look inside its world that includes a candid interview with frontman Chris Martin. Steve Kroft reports. John Hamlin is the producer.

Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009 Programming Note
Sunday's 60 Minutes will be pre-empted for the CBS News special CBS REPORTS: "The Road to the White House," a chronicle of Barack Obama’s historic journey to the presidency reported by Steve Kroft


Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009
"THE WINTER OF OUR HARDSHIP" - Scott Pelley reports on Wilmington, Ohio, whose residents have been hit particularly hard in this economic crisis because the town's largest employer, DHL, is shutting its domestic operation. Solly Granatstein and Nicole Young are the producers.

NO PEACE DEAL - Bob Simon reports from Israel and the West Bank where a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians say that a two-state solution is no longer possible. Robert Anderson is the producer.

WINE RX - Scientists have found a substance called resveratrol in red wine that slows down the aging process in mice. Will it someday lengthen the lives of humans, too? Morley Safer reports. Deirdre Naphin Curran and Katy Textor are the producers.

Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009
60 MINUTES is pre-empted by CBS Sports coverage of the American Football Conference Championship game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens.

Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009
THE PRICE OF OIL - The historic swings in oil prices last year were the result of financial speculation from Wall Street and not supply and demand, several sources from the financial and oil communities tell Steve Kroft. Leslie Cockburn is the producer.

THE CHAIRMAN - CBS News correspondent David Martin profiles Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen. Mary Walsh is the producer.

WYCLEF - Wyclef Jean immigrated to the U.S. as a baby and grew up to live the American dream as a millionaire rock star. He's now using his extraordinary talents and wealth to help his native Haiti. Scott Pelley reports. Harry Radliffe and Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson are the producers.

Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009
IS IT MURDER? - With drunken driving fatalities staying constant despite all the campaigns against the crime, some prosecutors are pursuing harsher penalties against perpetrators, including long prison terms for those who caused deaths. Bob Simon reports. Catherine Olian is the producer.

MIND READING - Neuroscience has learned so much about how we think and the brain activity linked to certain thoughts that it is now possible - on a very basic scale - to read a person’s mind. Lesley Stahl reports. Shari Finkelstein is the producer.

THE MAD SCIENTIST OF FOOTBALL - Texas Tech coach Mike Leach made up for a lack of money and top talent by creating an innovative offense that’s changing the game of college football and beating bigger schools which regularly attract the best talent in the nation. Scott Pelley reports. Shawn Efran and Catherine Herrick are the producers.

Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008
THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE - 60 MINUTES devotes its entire hour to Barack Obama's historic journey to the White House - a journey 60 MINUTES cameras and Steve Kroft have chronicled for nearly two years. The most complete picture of the Obamas to date includes never-before-seen footage and the best moments from highly acclaimed 60 MINUTES segments and interviews with his family and closest advisors, including his first post-election sit-down with Kroft. L. Franklin Devine, Michael Radutzky, Tom Anderson and Jennifer MacDonald are the producers.

Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008
SCHWARZENEGGER - The former Hollywood action star-turned California governor may be facing his most formidable foe in a $40 billion state budget gap caused by the economic decline. Scott Pelley reports. Henry Schuster is the producer.

SCREENING THE TSA - Are the hassles passengers endure at airport security checkpoints really making them safer? The Transportation Security Administration says they are, but a security adviser who has advised them says those measures are "security theater." Lesley Stahl reports. Karen Sughrue is the producer.

THE ORPHANAGE - Ivory is selling for nearly $1,000 a tusk, causing more elephants to be slaughtered and more orphaned babies in need of special care provided by an elephant orphanage in Kenya. Bob Simon reports. Michael Gavshon is the producer.

Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008
BARNEY FRANK - Lesley Stahl talks to Rep. Barney Frank (D.-Mass.), whose position as House Financial Services Committee Chairman puts him right in the middle of the huge and controversial government bailouts, first for the financial industry and now for Detroit's automakers. Shachar Bar-On is the producer.

WHERE'S THE BOTTOM? - The mortgage mess that touched off the financial meltdown is far from over, with a second wave of expected defaults on the way that could deepen the bottom of this recession. Scott Pelley reports. David Gelber and Joel Bach are the producers.

COACH CARROLL - Byron Pitts profiles USC college football coach Pete Carroll, who, in addition to his success in making the Trojans a football dynasty, is making positive contributions toward decreasing gang violence in Los Angeles. Catherine Olian and Joyce Cordero are the producer.

Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008
THE OIL KINGDOM - Despite the pledge of President-elect Barack Obama and others to lessen America's use of foreign oil, Saudi Arabia - the world’s largest oil supplier - isn’t worried. That's what Saudi officials told Lesley Stahl when she visited the oil kingdom and toured its vast petroleum facilities, which are gearing up to produce even more. Richard Bonin and Kathy Liu are the producers. This is a double length segment.

SCHNABEL - His painting took the art world by storm in the 1980s and then Julian Schnabel reinvented himself as a film director to more kudos. Morley Safer profiles this titan of art and film. David Browning is the producer.

Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008
THE CHEATERS - 60 MINUTES and The Washington Post reveal how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That's because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints. Steve Kroft and The Washington Post's Gilbert Gaul report. Ira Rosen is the producer.

THE SILVER STAR - Monica Brown, only the second woman to ever win the Silver Star since World War II, describes saving two wounded men during a firefight she wasn't supposed to be near - while she was only 18 years old. Lara Logan reports. Tom Anderson and Jeff Newton are the producers.

MICHAEL PHELPS - He swam into history at the Beijing Olympics and now the 23-year-old phenom tells CNN's Anderson Cooper what his life is like as hundreds of endorsement opportunities roll in to make this U.S. Olympic superstar a marketing millionaire. Draggan Mihailovich is the producer.

Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008
ASSAULT ON PELINDABA - Scott Pelley investigates the boldest assault ever on a facility containing weapons-grade uranium - a still-unsolved crime that could have had calamitous consequences. Graham Messick and Michael Karzis are the producers.

FOR BETTER OR WORSE - Foreigners who marry Americans are entitled to become permanent residents of the U.S., but in a stricter post-9/11 world, hundreds of widows are being asked to leave the country because their husbands died - even some whose children were born in the U.S. Bob Simon reports. Robert Anderson is the producer.

REX - Lesley Stahl catches up with Rex Lewis-Clack, a musical savant born blind and mentally impaired who, at 13 years old now, is making remarkable strides despite doctors' predictions. Shari Finkelstein is the producer.

Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008
THE 44th PRESIDENT - President-elect Barack Obama has agreed to give his first post-election interview to Steve Kroft. The interview includes First Lady-elect Michelle Obama. L. Franklin Devine, Michael Radutzky and Andy Court are the producers. THIS IS A DOUBLE LENGTH SEGMENT

Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008
THE INNER CIRCLE - Steve Kroft goes behind the scenes on election night to speak to the brains whose strategy propelled Barack Obama into the White House. L. Franklin Devine, Michael Radutzky and Andy Court are the producers.

THE WASTELAND - Where do the millions of computer monitors, cell phones and other electronic refuse our society generates end up? Some of it is shipped illegally from the U.S. to China, reports Scott Pelley, where it is harming the environment and the people who salvage its valuable components. Solly Granatstein is the producer.

TED TURNER - The nearly 70-year-old media mogul looks back on a life marked by huge successes, steep downfalls and public feuds that have made him an American legend. Morley Safer reports. Deirdre Naphin is the producer.

Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008
COMING HOME - Citizen soldiers returning from active military duty are entitled by law to get back their old jobs or at least the same salaries. But as Lesley Stahl reports, many National Guard and Reservist vets are having trouble despite the law and now employers say the law is putting an excessive financial burden on their businesses. Karen Sughrue is the producer.

SERGEANT BILL - Waving a badge he bought on the Internet and claiming to belong to the "Multi-jurisdictional Narcotics Task Force," Bill Jakob fooled a small town’s officials into granting him the authority of a law enforcement officer. Katie Couric reports. Kyra Darnton is the producer.

BRAIN POWER - People who are completely paralyzed due to illness or trauma are getting help communicating with a new technology that connects their brains to a computer. In the future, brain computer interface, or BCI, may restore movement to paralyzed people and allow amputees to move bionic limbs. Scott Pelley reports. Denise Schrier Cetta is the producer.

Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008
CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS - Steve Kroft examines the complicated financial instruments known as credit default swaps and the central role they are playing in the unfolding economic crisis. L. Franklin Devine and Jennifer MacDonald are the producers.

T. BOONE PICKENS - The oil and gas maven is on a mission to lessen America's dependence on foreign oil. Charlie Rose reports. Michael Radutzky, Tanya Simon and Andrew Metz are the producers.

GORONGOSA - American Greg Carr is using his great wealth to try to help some of the poorest people in Africa by attracting more tourists to their neighborhood - the beautiful national park of Gorongosa in Mozambique. Scott Pelley reports. Rebecca Peterson and Henry Schuster are the producers.

Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008
COMBAT IN AFGHANISTAN - The enemy is on the rise in Afghanistan and Lara Logan’s report from a forward operating base near Pakistan includes 60 Minutes footage of up-close combat. Peter Klein and Jeff Newton are the producers.

BANK OF AMERICA - Lesley Stahl speaks to bankers about the federal government coming to the aid of America’s biggest banks. Shachar Bar-On is the producer.

BLOOD BROTHERS - Matador Cayetano Ordonez nearly dies during this segment when he’s battered by a bull in a Bob Simon report about him and his brother Francisco - Spain’s remarkable bullfighting brothers. Michael Gavshon and Paul Bellinger are the producers.

Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008
THE FBI'S WISEGUY - The FBI undercover agent who brought down high-level mobsters tells how he infiltrated the Gambino family and shows his face for the first time, undeterred by the Mafia’s penchant for revenge. Armen Keteyian reports. Pat Milton and Michael Radutzky are the producers.

THE BATTLE OF SADR CITY - Weaponry so advanced that it spots the enemy and destroys it from nearly two miles above the battlefield made the difference in the fight for Sadr City last spring. Lesley Stahl's report shows rare footage of the weaponry in action. Richard Bonin is the producer.

ALL IN THE FAMILY - The Antinoris have been in the wine business for 600 years - maybe the oldest family business on earth - reports Morley Safer from its vineyards in Tuscany, Italy. David Browning is the producer.

Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008
WALL STREET'S SHADOW MARKET - Steve Kroft looks at some of the arcane Wall Street financial instruments that have magnified the economic crisis. L. Franklin Devine is the producer.

KILL BIN LADEN - The officer who led the army’s Delta Force mission to kill Osama bin Laden after 9/11 reveals what really happened in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, when the al-Qaeda leader narrowly escaped. Scott Pelley reports. Shawn Efran is the producer.

THE RACE FOR THE ELECTRIC CAR - Lesley Stahl reports on the race to develop and produce a viable electric car being waged between Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Detroit auto executives. Shachar Bar-On is the producer.

SEASON PREMIERE: Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008
THE BAILOUT - Scott Pelley gets rare access to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson as he deals with the nation’s unfolding economic crisis. Henry Schuster and David Gelber are the producers.

GENERAL O. - Gen. Ray Odierno sits down with Lesley Stahl for his first interview since taking command of U.S. forces in Iraq and also takes her and 60 MINUTES cameras on his first battlefield tour in his new role. Richard Bonin is the producer.

THE COLLIDER - Steve Kroft descends into the Large Hadron Collider - some call it the "big bang machine" - that took billions of dollars and 9,000 physicists to build in the hope it will provide valuable insights into the formation of the universe. Andy Court and Keith Sharman are the producers.