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Salman Rushdie came to terms with the attempt on his life the only way he knew: by writing about it in his book, "Knife." He detailed the experience in his first television interview following the attack, when he sat down with Anderson Cooper in 2024.
Bob Dylan tells 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley why he didn't like the name he was born with. In this expanded clip from the 2004 interview outtakes, the musician discusses some of the names he used before settling on Dylan.
In 2011, Bob Simon stepped back in time when he got rare access to some of the world's most ancient and secluded monasteries. The monks on Mount Athos follow ancient traditions that have remained virtually unchanged for a thousand years.
In 2006, Bob Simon traveled to Bangladesh, where thousands of low-paid workers — including children — were dismantling old ships for parts. Simon discovered appalling working conditions and toxic waste polluting the beaches
In 2008, Bob Simon reported on how the growing demand for bluefin tuna, highly coveted as the ultimate taste experience in sushi, was pushing fishermen to find new and more efficient ways to land this prized catch. Illegal fishing was rampant. One fisherman warned: "If we carry on like this, we are bound to catastrophe."
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.
