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In 2020, Scott Pelley reported on efforts to investigate the violent Greenwood Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1921, a white mob burned a prosperous Black community to ash, leaving hundreds dead.
In 1986, Morley Safer went behind the scenes of "the game show of game shows": "Wheel of Fortune." At the time, Safer reported the show's success was "so pervasive" that it affected the nation's news-watching habits.
In 2001, Mike Wallace reported on "The Tiananmen Papers," transcripts detailing the Chinese government's response to the 1989 student protests in Tiananmen Square. The documents revealed the bitter debate among China's top leaders about whether to use force against the students.
Parents whose children died in military service share an unimaginable pain. Each year in San Francisco, some of these Gold Star parents meet to support one another. In 2016, 60 Minutes reported on the annual gathering.
Steve Kroft reported on the financial instruments that fueled the 2008 economic crisis.
Steve Kroft interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama for the first time in February 2007, when Obama was just announcing his bid for the presidency.
In 1999, Steve Kroft profiled Robert Gardiner, an 88-year-old aristocrat in the Hamptons, who was one of the most eccentric people ever to appear on 60 Minutes. In 2011, producer Frank Devine described why the story was one of his favorites.
American youth struggled with mental health challenges in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic. In 2022, Sharyn Alfonsi sat down with kids confronting those challenges – and the health care providers working to make care more accessible.
In 2003, Mike Wallace reported on North Korea, a country rarely visited by foreigners, where people lived in abject poverty and disease and malnutrition were rampant.
In 2004, Mike Wallace spoke to a Dutch reporter, who saw firsthand how North Korea was using "The Diary of a Young Girl" — the chronicle of Anne Frank — to teach students to fear and hate America.
