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Bob Simon first met the Lost Boys of Sudan — a group of young men orphaned by civil war — in a Kenyan refugee camp in 2001. Their parents were killed, and their sisters were often sold into slavery. In 2013, after some had relocated to the United States, 60 Minutes caught up with them again.
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 U.S. invasion of Iraq. "Telling the truth is not for me," Curve Ball told Simon.
In 2012, Bob Simon met then-21-year-old chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who admitted that he loved seeing his opponents squirm. At the time, he was the youngest No. 1 chess player ever.
Bob Simon reported from Tunisia in 2011 after protests against the repressive government not only toppled its autocratic ruler but also sparked uprisings across the region that led to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation.
In 2007, 60 Minutes' Bob Simon traveled with scientist Bruce Beehler to Indonesia's Foja Mountains, spending ten days in one of the few places on Earth still untouched by humans — a place known as a modern-day Garden of Eden.
In 2005, Chris Rock shared his process for writing new material with 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley, explaining "there is a rhythm to comedy."
How do you rhyme with the word orange? It's not a problem for Eminem, who told Anderson Cooper in this 2010 excerpt, "People say that the word orange doesn't rhyme with anything and that kind of pisses me off because I can think of a lot of things that rhyme with orange."
Beyoncé started performing at 9 years old at Walmarts, she told 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft in this 2010 excerpt.
In 2021, Bill Whitaker reported from Northern California on the largest helicopter to ever fight fires at night, at a time when the state faced one of its most intense fire years ever.
In August 1980, a few months before the presidential election, Dan Rather interviewed President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office. The state funeral for Carter, who died at age 100, will be held Thursday, a day which has been declared a National Day of Mourning.
