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"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.
60 Minutes was granted rare access inside Nick Saban's football program in 2013. The legendary Alabama coach told Armen Keteyian he got his perfectionism from his father -- even at the family car wash everything had to be perfect. Saban announced his retirement last week.
A man suffering from Parkinson's disease was housebound, barely able to function. Then, a surgical treatment performed by Dr. Ali Rezai, which implanted electrodes in his brain, transformed his life, Morley Safer reported in 2002. This Sunday, 60 Minutes looks at Dr. Rezai's new approaches to treating Alzheimer's and addiction.
Bonobos, our primate cousins, are an endangered species, live in female-dominated groups and would rather make love than war. In 2015, Anderson Cooper visited a sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo that's caring for these great apes, which are being hunted to extinction.
Morley Safer profiled the opera singer in 1999, describing Fleming, known as "the diva next door," as an operatic rarity: a nice person with a sense of humor about opera and herself.
Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers punched their ticket to a second consecutive World Series last night, in historic fashion. In 2017, Jon Wertheim met Ohtani in Sapporo, and got to know Japan's most fearsome pitcher and most prolific hitter.
In 2021, Jon Wertheim reported on the Ritchie Boys, a secret U.S. intelligence unit who fought in World War II. Many were German-born Jews who fled their homeland before being sent back to Europe to fight Nazism. One of the last surviving members, Guy Stern, died earlier this month at the age of 101.
