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In 1990, Mike Wallace spoke with "The Satanic Verses" author, who was marked for death by the Ayatollah Khomeini. The Ayatollah in 1989 declared Rushdie's novel an affront to Islam.
David McCullough has died at 89. A decade ago, Morley Safer spoke with the author and historian in a sweeping interview that touched on McCullough's career, negative political campaigning, Harry Truman and the construction and meaning of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed over the weekend in a drone strike during a U.S. counterterrorism operation, President Biden announced Monday night. In 2004, Ed Bradley reported on al-Zawahiri, said to be the mastermind behind Osama bin Laden.
Some are politically outspoken; some just want to create beauty. This week, Chinese cartoonist and activist Badiucao is the latest artist to appear on the broadcast.
More than four decades ago, 60 Minutes reported, "Solar energy may be an idea whose time has come for all of us." Today, the Bahamas is turning to solar arrays to restore power after Hurricane Dorian
From 2018, Scott Pelley's report on illegal immigrants, in the hands of professional smugglers, trapped in a system of cruelty, neglect, and death.
Egil Krogh, a member of Nixon’s White House Plumbers who testified before the Watergate Senate subcommittee, gave his first television interview to Mike Wallace in 1974.
The day after the House Judiciary Committee voted on an article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon, the president’s chief of staff spoke to 60 Minutes.
Alexander Butterfield stunned the nation when he told the Watergate Senate subcommittee that President Nixon had tape-recorded conversations in the Oval Office. In 1975 was interviewed by 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace.
Following the 1972 break-in into Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate complex, 60 Minutes interviewed many people who became central to the break-in and the subsequent cover-up.