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From 2008, Bob Simon's profile of Gustavo Dudamel, the Venezuelan conductor and product of El Sistema, Venezuela’s radical approach to music education.
In 2010, Scott Pelley traveled to the Swiss Alps, where 60 Minutes was given the kind of access that's usually reserved for kings and captains of industry at the World Economic Forum.
From 2004, a report on the dangerous emergence of super-bugs, infections that are drug resistant because of the over-prescription of antibiotics. Lesley Stahl spoke with Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the government’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for this story. Fauci stepped down this week.
From 2005, a report on H5N1, also called avian flu, a bird virus ravaging the poultry industry in Asia which has, on rare occasions, infected humans, killing half of its victims. Steve Kroft spoke with Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the government’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for this story. Fauci is stepping down this week.
From 1997, the story of Dr. Mahlon Johnson, a neuropathologist at Vanderbilt Medical Center, who was infected with the AIDS virus when he cut himself while performing an autopsy. Dr. Johnson immediately began an aggressive treatment, that proved effective. Dr. Anthony Fauci makes one of his first 60 Minutes appearances in this report.
Ten years ago today, 20 first graders and six educators were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. When Scott Pelley went back to Newtown in 2017, he found families working to move forward.
In 2009, college football coach Mike Leach told 60 Minutes he thought appearing on the program might help him land recruits. Leach died Monday at the age of 61.
Security concerns for the nation's electrical grid are being raised after a substation attack in North Carolina. This past February, Bill Whitaker reported on the vulnerabilities in the system that provides our electricity.
This week, Trevor Noah will host his final episode of "The Daily Show." Last December, Noah spoke with Lesley Stahl about finding his footing as host after taking the show over.
Mike Braun, the former chief of operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, told 60 Minutes in 2010 that Viktor Bout was "in my eyes is one of the most dangerous men on the face of the Earth."
