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In 2013, 60 Minutes' Sanjay Gupta spoke with former Vice President Dick Cheney about his battle with heart disease – and how he even drew up a letter of resignation to give to President Bush should anything happen to him while in office. Cheney died on Monday at age 84.
In the fall of 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney spoke with 60 Minutes about the war on terrorism, his health and the security measures to keep him and President Bush safe. Cheney died on Monday at age 84.
Rare earth elements, the unusual metals inside nearly every piece of high-tech equipment you can think of, are essential to modern life. In 2015, Lesley Stahl visited the California mine where they were first identified and learned how China became the dominant producer.
Sports betting is surging in popularity, especially among younger men — with some now facing debt and addiction, 60 Minutes reported last year. A massive gambling scandal involving some top names in the NBA exploded into view Thursday morning.
Ballet lifted Misty Copeland from poverty, over assumptions about race and through injury. In 2015, Bill Whitaker profiled Copeland, just weeks before she made history, becoming the first female Black ballerina to be named principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre. Today is her final performance with ABT, after 25 years with the company.
In 2014, Bob Simon reported on a successful gang of diamond and art thieves nicknamed "The Pink Panthers." At that time, they had pulled off jobs in 35 countries and stolen $500 million in jewelry and art over a period of 20 years. As Simon reported "their exploits have become the stuff of legend."
Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers punched their ticket to a second consecutive World Series last night, in historic fashion. In 2017, Jon Wertheim met Ohtani in Sapporo, and got to know Japan's most fearsome pitcher and most prolific hitter.
This past May, Lesley Stahl reported on egg freezing's increasing popularity among young women as a way to preserve their fertility, despite the procedure's high cost and lack of guarantees.
The death of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a federal prison sparked countless conspiracy theories. In 2020, 60 Minutes reported on the investigation into the wealthy financier's death.
From "Stand By Me" to "A Few Good Men," Rob Reiner told Steve Kroft in 1994 that the secret to his films was simple: "Tap into your own experience," explaining that he tried to inhabit the insides of a character.
