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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.
In 2012, Bob Simon first profiled the tennis star for 60 Minutes, traveling with him to Serbia to meet Djokovic's first coach and visiting his grandfather's apartment building, where his family sought refuge during the war.
Norman Lear has died at the age of 101. In 1976, 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace profiled Lear, who had "changed the face of television."
In 2004, Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female member of the U.S. Supreme court, told Scott Pelley how her appointment to the country's highest bench had an "incredible ripple effect" for women. The retired associate justice died today at the age of 93.
In 1999, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spoke to Lesley Stahl about his family, Richard Nixon and the criticism of some of his past decisions. Kissinger died this week at the age of 100.
