Watch CBS News
In 2009, Lesley Stahl reported on flaws in eyewitness identification procedures that led to the wrongful conviction of people like Ronald Cotton, who was later exonerated by DNA evidence for the rape of Jennifer Thompson.
Ila Borders was the first woman to pitch in men's professional baseball. In 1998, 60 Minutes profiled then-23-year-old Borders, who told Mike Wallace, "I've always had this fierce spirit of doing what I want to do."
Nearly two-thousand years ago, Mount Vesuvius buried the ancient city of Herculaneum, and with it, a library full of ancient papyrus scrolls. In 2018, Bill Whitaker reported on an international race to unravel the scrolls' secrets.
"That's magnificent," said Bill Whitaker as he watched wild wolves in Yellowstone National Park in 2018. Wolves were eradicated in the American West until the endangered species was reintroduced in the 1990s, and their return led both to controversy and to unforeseen and positive impacts.
In 2015, 60 Minutes went inside the construction of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Founding director Lonnie Bunch said the museum would allow America "to remember how much we as a country have been improved, changed, challenged, and made better by the African American experience."
In 2004, 60 Minutes chronicled Jon Stewart's comedic coverage of the presidential election campaigns. Two decades later, Stewart is returning to "The Daily Show," owned by the same company as 60 Minutes, to give his take on the upcoming 2024 election.
"My biography is only half written. This was just the opening act," Jon Bon Jovi told 60 Minutes in 2008. The singer-songwriter has continued to make a name for himself as a legendary rock musician and devoted philanthropist.
By creating fake documents, an 18-year-old Adolfo Kaminsky helped the French resistance save as many as 14,000 Jews during WWII. Anderson Cooper met 92-year-old Kaminsky in 2017, and reported on how he used his stain-removing skills to forge official documents. Kaminsky died in January 2023.
To become a top pianist, you must win a major competition. Charles Osgood reported in 1976 on one of the most prestigious piano competitions where young musicians' careers were on the line. Osgood, who anchored "CBS Sunday Morning" for 22 years, died Tuesday.
Dressed head-to-toe in protective gear, 60 Minutes joined virus hunters in Uganda inside an abandoned mineshaft in 2022. They were there to test bats for viruses that could be lethal to humans – hoping to find the next deadly virus before it finds us.
