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Elizabeth Holmes claimed her start-up, Theranos, would revolutionizing blood testing, taking a pin-prick of blood and performing hundreds of laboratory tests. But as Norah O'Donnell reported in 2018, Theranos' machine never delivered on its promise, and Holmes is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors.
Clint Hill was a secret service agent who was on the scene the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In pictures splashed across newspapers, it was Hill who was seen climbing atop the presidential limousine to push First Lady Jackie Kennedy out of the way to protect her life. In 1975, he spoke with 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace.v
Curtis Flowers, who was wrongfully imprisoned for over 20 years, has died at the age of 56. Flowers, a Black man from Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime by the same prosecutor before ultimately being wrongfully convicted. As 60 Minutes reported in 2021, when Flowers was charged with killing four people in 1996, he had no criminal record, there was no murder weapon and no DNA or fingerprints linking him to the crime.
A 60 Minutes crew encountered deadly IEDs while on the road with a bomb-hunting unit in Afghanistan in 2009. Today marks 25 years since the start of the U.S.-led attack on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Israeli grandparents jumped into action to save their family during Hamas' deadly incursion three years ago. They shared the harrowing rescue story with Lesley Stahl.
The U.S. military has declared an end to its Iraq-based anti-ISIS operation, more than 20 years after initially invading the country to oust then-President Saddam Hussein. Back in 2011, Bob Simon interviewed the Iraqi defector code-named "Curve Ball," whose false tale of a mobile, biological weapons program was the chief justification for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. "Telling the truth is not for me," Curve Ball told Simon.
As New York celebrates Dolly Parton Appreciation Day, 60 Minutes looks back at her first visit to New York City, when the musical "Hello, Dolly!" was playing on Broadway. She told Morley Safer in 2009: "I thought, 'Hey, I've arrived. I'm here.'"
This month marks the debut of Gustavo Dudamel as the new musical director of the New York Philharmonic. In 2010, Bob Simon visited the then-29-year-old conductor and product of El Sistema, Venezuela's radical approach to music education as he led the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
It's been 25 years since 9/11, and the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner continues its pledge to identify remains for as long as there are families looking for answers.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks, has been in U.S. custody since 2003.
