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In 2001, Ed Bradley accompanied survivors and family members to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. The 1995 federal building bombing killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.
In 2020, Bill Whitaker first reported on the company BlueDot and their computer algorithm, which was among the first to detect the COVID-19 outbreak, tracking where the virus might spread next.
60 Minutes' Ed Bradley met Mario Vargas Llosa in 1989, when the Peruvian author was running for president of Peru. The prolific novelist, who later went on to win the Nobel Prize, has died at the age of 89.
In 1983, 60 Minutes' Harry Reasoner visited Greenland. In this excerpt, Reasoner reported that the world's largest island spanned 840,000 square miles — which is about three times the size of Texas.
In 2023, Scott Pelley reported from northwest Syria on the volunteer efforts by the White Helmets and the Syrian American Medical Society to help survivors after devastating earthquakes.
In 2015, 60 Minutes visited the Scottish island of Islay, home to some of the world's finest single malt whisky distilleries.
In 2018, 60 Minutes reported on a medical discovery: a previously unknown brain injury found in veterans exposed to the invisible wave of energy that erupts from high explosives. The scar tissue may mean some PTSD cases are caused by physical trauma.
In 2004, 60 Minutes' Morley Safer interviewed University of Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma about his coaching style — and the secret to the team's success.
Late Friday, President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the longtime funder of Radio Free Europe, among other media outlets. In 2023, 60 Minutes reported on how Radio Free Europe had become a vital tool in an ongoing battle against disinformation and authoritarianism, especially since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Coach Bob Hurley ran one of the most successful programs in high school basketball. St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, NJ, won dozens of state championships before closing in 2017, but Hurley told 60 Minutes in 2011 that his biggest accomplishment was that only two of his players — in 39 years — didn’t go to college.
