This week on "Sunday Morning" (Oct. 1)
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HEADLINES: O.J. Simpson released from Nevada prison (Video)
O.J. Simpson is a free man. He was released early this morning from a Nevada prison after serving nine years for armed robbery. John Blackstone reports.
COVER STORY: Creating a new blueprint for America's construction trades | Watch Video
The 2008 recession hit homeowners -- and homebuilders -- hard. More than 1.5 million residential construction workers left the industry; some changed careers, others retired, and many immigrant workers left the U.S. and did not return. Add it all up, and since the Great Recession, the industry has recovered just fewer than half of those jobs.
And few young people are looking to careers in construction, plumbing, welding, and other skilled trades.
Mark Strassmann looks at the shortage of skilled labor -- desperately needed to build or repair housing in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria -- and talks with "This Old House" veteran Norm Abram and Mike Rowe, former host of the series "Dirty Jobs," about reconstituting America's blue-collar work ethic.
For more info:
- National Association of Homebuilders
- Lehigh Career & Technical Institute, Allentown, Pa.
- Bozzuto Construction, Greenbelt, Md.
- Norm Abram, "This Old House" (PBS)
- mikerowe.com
- Mike Rowe WORKS Foundation
ALMANAC: "In God We Trust" | Watch Video
On October 1st, 1957, a familiar phrase truly gained currency, as the words "In God We Trust" first appeared on America's paper money. Jane Pauley reports.
ART: The art of Piet Mondrian | Watch Video
One hundred years ago modern art took a decisively linear turn with the paintings of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, whose early, conventional "Dutch Masters"-style landscape paintings morphed into a body of work comprised of red, yellow and blue rectangles with black stripes. Mark Phillips reports from The Hague.
GALLERY: The evolution of Mondrian's art
For more info:
- Mondrian & De Stijl, at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands | Online tickets
- Mondrian to Dutch Design: 100 years of De Stijl, at the Gemeentemuseum
- Mondrian House, Amersfoort, Netherlands
- piet-mondrian.org
- Piet Mondrian at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
BOOKS: To "Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown, success is no riddle | Watch Video
The author of the popular "Da Vinci Code" has been vilified by the Catholic Church. Though he claims not to be anti-religion, Dan Brown will surely face more controversy with his latest novel featuring Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, "Origin," in which God Himself is on the edge of extinction.
Correspondent Tony Dokoupil visits Brown at home in New Hampshire, where his experiences at the prestigious prep school, Phillips Exeter Academy, shaped his life views.
BOOK EXCERPT: Read the prologue and opening chapter of "Origin"
For more info:
- "Origin" by Dan Brown (Doubleday), on sale October 3 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook, Digital Audio Download and Audio CD formats. Available via Amazon
- danbrown.com
- Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.
- Water Street Books, Exeter, NH
COMMENTARY: Hugh Hefner's complicated legacy | Watch Video
Faith Salie on the Playboy founder who both celebrated the power of women and commodified their beauty.
TV: Sofia Vergara: The accent is on business | Watch Video
The "Modern Family" actress is also a marketing powerhouse - and a force behind helping fund micro-loans to women trying to start their own small businesses
For more info:
- "Modern Family" (ABC)
- Follow @SofiaVergara on Twitter and Instagram
- join-eby.com
HARTMAN: Just one of the guys (Video)
The Brandywine bulldogs in Wilmington, Delaware, have one of the most unlikely football players in America today - not just because this guy is so little, but because this guy is a girl. Steve Hartman meets 4-foot-8 linebacker Felicia Perez.
SUNDAY PROFILE: Bill Murray sings | Watch Video
In a rare television interview the comic star -- whose many "Saturday Night Live" characters included a formidable lounge singer -- talks with anchor Jane Pauley about venturing back into music. Murray is selling out concert halls as a member of "New Worlds," a stage production that mixes serious chamber music with spoken word performances.
The production, which features Murray, cellist Jan Vogler, violinist Mira Wang, and pianist Vanessa Perez, stems from a chance conversation Murray had with Vogler a few years back when they happened to be seated in the same row during a trans-Atlantic flight. They became friends, and that friendship turned into the collaboration on stage.
"I really do appreciate the live performance," Murray tells Pauley. "We get to a certain point in the show, we look around and go, like, 'Watch this: Now we're gonna kill 'em!'"
WEB EXTRA: Read an extended transcript of Bill Murray on music, poetry, and Huck Finn's conscience
You can stream the album "New Worlds" by clicking on the embed below (Free Spotify registration required to hear full tracks):
For more info:
- "New Worlds" by Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends (Decca Gold); Available on CD (Amazon), Digital Download (via Amazon and iTunes) and Streaming (Amazon, Apple Music and Spotify)
- "New Worlds" Tour Dates | Press Release
- janvogler.com
- Pierre Hotel, New York
SCOTUS: Justice Antonin Scalia speaks | Watch Video
A new book collects speeches by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, whose originalist views were both polarizing and colored with humor. Mo Rocca talks with Scalia's wife and youngest son, and with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, about "Nino" and his passionate arguments on and off the bench.
For more info:
- "Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Live Well Lived" by Antonin Scalia (Crown Forum), released October 3 in Hardcover, eBook, and Digital Audio Download (read by Christopher Scalia); Available via Amazon
BOOKS: The newest story from Mark Twain | Watch Video
Fragments of an unfinished Samuel Clemens story have been transformed into a children's book, the latest work by Mark Twain, published just 107 years after Clemens' death. Martha Teichner reports.
For more info:
- "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine" by Mark Twain and Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Erin Stead (Doubleday Books for Young Readers), in Hardcover, eBook, Digital Audio Download and Audio CD formats; Available via Amazon
- Philip Stead Illustration
- Erin Stead Illustration
- Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford, Conn.
- Mark Twain Project
CALENDAR: Week of October 2 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.
NATURE: Big horn sheep (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the Big Horn sheep who make Nevada's Mount Grant their home. Videographer: Derek Reich.
WEB EXCLUSIVES:
NATURE UP CLOSE: Whooping cranes
Perilously close to extinction decades ago, tremendous efforts by naturalists have resulted in the saving of a magnificent bird
NATURE UP CLOSE: Waikamoi Preserve
The 8,900-acre preserve on the Hawaiian island of Maui is protected by The Nature Conservancy.
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