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In 2012, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, on assignment for 60 Minutes, profiled Sal Khan and his website "Khan Academy," which he hoped would transform education. At the time the digital lessons reached more than four million students each month.
In 1979, 60 Minutes' Morley Safer profiled powerful attorney Roy Cohn, former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy and one of the authors of McCarthyism.
In April 2023, 60 Minutes visited Notre Dame to report on the reconstruction effort four years after a devastating fire. General Jean-Louis Georgelin, who led the initial effort to reconstruct the cathedral and showed Bill Whitaker the location where the spire collapsed, died in August 2023, while hiking in the French Pyrenees.
In 2015, Lesley Stahl traveled to Kenya, where a "mobile money" revolution was sweeping the country. Kenyans were sending and receiving money on their cell phones through the platform M-Pesa, which improved commerce and brought basic necessities to poorer areas.
Morley Safer met Danish architect Bjarke Ingels in New York City back in 2016, when the 41-year-old was handling over 60 major projects including Lego's new headquarters and a building for Google. At the time he was also involved in designing Two World Trade Center.
In 2000, Morley Safer traveled to the tiny kingdom of Bhutan, perched in the Himalayas, where gross national product mattered less than "gross national happiness."
In November 2004, David Martin reported on the battle of Fallujah, the service members wounded in the fight and the toll it had taken on them and their families. This week on "CBS Sunday Morning," Martin caught up with one of the people from that story, Joe Dan Worley, a medic who was hit by a roadside bomb in the battle.
In 2011, Scott Pelley reported on a therapy program in which soldiers who were wounded in the Iraq war were brought back to Iraq in an effort to provide emotional closure for them by returning to the battlefield where they were injured.
In 1986, music legend Quincy Jones spoke to Ed Bradley for a 60 Minutes profile. Jones, who collaborated with multiple artists over the years, died this week at the age of 91. In this excerpt, Bradley asks him about getting "the best out of people that you produce."
In 1999, correspondent Bob Simon reported from Finland on Nokia, the former mobile giant that once dominated the global market with its cell phones.
