Latest Assignment America Videos
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Play CBS Video June 6, 2008 | 4:08 PM PDT
Community Lends Helping Hand
When cancer patient Sonya Barclay made a plea to a reality show to help her build a new house, her community pulled together to grant the wish that the show couldn?t. Steve Hartman reports.
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Play CBS Video April 25, 2008 | 4:09 PM PDT
The Littlest Bank In America
The town of Oakwood, Texas, used to be known for cotton. Now it's mostly known as a town that, well, used to be. But its home to a living antique, the littlest bank in America. Steve Hartman reports.
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Play CBS Video April 18, 2008 | 4:09 PM PDT
Young Boy Climbs Kilimanjaro
At just four feet tall, 7-year-old Keats Boyd was not expected to fulfill his dream of climbing Africa's tallest mountain. But, as Steve Hartman explains, Boyd was able to prove the skeptics wrong.
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Play CBS Video April 11, 2008 | 4:05 PM PDT
Teaching Old Cats New Tricks
Everyone knows you can't teach an old dog new tricks ? but what about a cat? Well, some people are trying. Steve Hartman reports for "Assignment America."
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Play CBS Video September 14, 2007 | 8:37 AM PDT
Assignment America
You pick Steve Hartman's next assignment; Porch sitters union, an Iowa town made famous by American Gothic, or a "velveteria."
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Play CBS Video September 14, 2007 | 8:37 AM PDT
Assignment America
You pick Steve Hartman's next assigmnent; Help Steve pick a puppy, meet an 82-yr.-old waitress, or an art student adopted by his teacher.
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Play CBS Video September 14, 2007 | 8:37 AM PDT
Assignment America
You pick Steve Hartman's next assignment; meet a rose man in Florida, a group in Queens, N.Y. who walk the block again and again, and an acrobatic pilot who won't give up the ghost.
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Play CBS Video June 22, 2007 | 3:17 PM PDT
Fulfilling A Childhood Fantasy
Only On The Web: John Ninomiya says he is the only person in America to fly using a bunch of helium-filled balloons. He talks with Steve Hartman about his unusual hobby.
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Play CBS Video September 14, 2007 | 8:37 AM PDT
'Curious John' Takes Off
John Ninomiya is an actuary by profession who suspends himself mid-air with helium-filled balloons in his off-time. Steve Hartman tells his story in this week's Assignment America.
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Play CBS Video September 14, 2007 | 8:37 AM PDT
Assignment America
You pick Steve Hartman's next assignment: meet an inmate who learned embroidery in jail; an aspiring artist who is auctioning her art to pay for other kid's wishes or visit a spelling bee for seniors.
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Play CBS Video June 8, 2007 | 2:43 PM PDT
The Down Home Ranch
Steve Hartman visited a camp in Texas that has all the facilities of a regular camp. But its campers have some kind of mental disability. The real difference is, they never want to leave.
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Play CBS Video June 1, 2007 | 2:36 PM PDT
Celebrating Arlington Cemetery
The directors of the Arlington National Cemetery are publishing a commemorative photo book called "Where Valor Rests." It tells the story of Arlington. Steve Hartman reports.
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Play CBS Video September 14, 2007 | 8:37 AM PDT
Assignment America
You pick Steve Hartman's next assignment; meet a pharmacist who won't leave his town until everybody else is relocated first; a senior's hockey team or a cowboy camp for those with Down syndrome.
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Play CBS Video September 14, 2007 | 8:37 AM PDT
A Homeless High School Grad
Daniel Lazzatti graduated from his high school with a 3.7 GPA despite having a learning disability and no home to go to or parents to support him. Steve Hartman has his story on Assignment America.
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Play CBS Video September 14, 2007 | 8:37 AM PDT
Assignment America
You pick Steve Hartman's next assignment; meet the fastest banjo player in the world; Russian sister scholars or a homeless student who is graduating college with a 3.7 GPA.
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Play CBS Video May 19, 2007 | 8:10 AM PDT
An 'American' Success Story
He's known now as "Dr. Q," a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University. But not all that long ago, he was an illegal immigrant from Mexico picking crops in the U.S. Steve Hartman met up with him.
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Play CBS Video September 14, 2007 | 8:37 AM PDT
Assignment America
You pick Steve Hartman's next assignment: meet a woman who built a lucrative business out of trash; a family that has been making saddles for 4 generations or a migrant farm worker now a neurosurgeon.
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Play CBS Video September 14, 2007 | 8:37 AM PDT
Nola, The College 'Senior'
Steve Hartman met with Nola Ochs, a 9- year-old college senior who is finishing her general studies degree at Fort Hays University In Kansas at the same time as her granddaughter Alexandra.
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Play CBS Video May 4, 2007 | 2:55 PM PDT
Assignment America
You pick Steve Hartman's next assignment: meet a four-year old golf prodigy who whacks the ball 60 yards; an old school migrant cobbler or the oldest person to graduate from college.
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Play CBS Video May 4, 2007 | 2:55 PM PDT
Sweet Dreams Come True
A legendary candy shop in Tuscola, Ill. sat idle for 25 years - until a third generation of the family that founded the store revived it. Steve Hartman reports in this week's Assignment America.
