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60 Minutes reported from Hong Kong in 2019, when months of pro-democracy demonstrations turned increasingly violent. Jimmy Lai, a media company owner and democracy advocate, spoke with Holly Williams at the time about criticizing the Chinese government. Lai, now 78, was arrested in 2020, and convicted on Monday in a landmark national security trial of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles.
60 Minutes first profiled filmmaker Rob Reiner in 1994. Steve Kroft spoke with the director, screenwriter and actor about growing up the son of Carl Reiner, playing the role of "Meathead" and more. Reiner, 78, and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were found deceased at their home in Los Angeles on Sunday.
American entertainment giant Rob Reiner spoke with Lesley Stahl this past October about the bold choices he made to launch his directing career—a career that would go on to include American cultural touchstones including "A Few Good Men" and "When Harry Met Sally," among many others. Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were found deceased at their home in Los Angeles.
As holiday shopping ramps up, revisit Morley Safer's 1976 report on Bloomingdale's black-tie opening in Washington, D.C. The original "Bloomie's" in New York was so beloved that shoppers called it their own private adult Disneyland.
When Scott Pelley profiled Gehry in 2002, his introduction said it all: "You may not know the man, but if you've ever seen a building designed by Frank Gehry, you'll never forget it. Gehry is to architecture what Einstein was to physics, what Picasso was to painting, what Jordan is to basketball." The celebrated and controversial architect has died at the age of 96.
Over Thanksgiving weekend in 2011, Morley Safer reported on the multibillion-dollar food flavoring industry and how supertasters used secret formulas to "hijack" our brains with irresistible flavors.
This week marks 80 years since the beginning of the Nuremberg trials. In 2017, Lesley Stahl first spoke to Ben Ferencz, who at the time was the last living Nuremberg prosecutor. Ferencz, who prosecuted Nazis for genocide and spent his life trying to deter war and war crimes, died in 2023 at the age of 103.
Do Americans care about the penny? In 1986, 60 Minutes' Andy Rooney tested commuters around Grand Central to see whether they would pick one up. The late Rooney thought the coin should be eliminated. Andy's wish came true Wednesday, when the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia pressed its final penny.
In 2008, Morley Safer reported on the debate on whether it's worth it for the U.S. Mint to continue producing copper pennies. This week, the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia struck its last circulating penny.
"After I'd had my own baby, I then began to understand mother chimps much better," Jane Goodall told 60 Minutes in 2010. "Now I'm responsible for this new little life." The renowned conservationist and mother to son Hugo, nicknamed "Grub," died October 1 at the age of 91. She was honored Wednesday with a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral.
