Season 58 • Episode 27
LatestFirst, a report on patients, cut off from health care, getting help. Then, the state of high-speed rail in the U.S. And, a look at the Mardi Gras Indians keeping tradition alive.
America's popular television News magazine in which an ever changing team of CBS News correspondents contribute segments ranging from hard news coverage to politics to lifestyle and pop culture.
Production
The ticking stopwatch — pure Pavlovian anxiety
Editing
Surgical precision in confrontational interview cutting
Creator
Don Hewitt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Don Hewitt created the show after producing the first televised presidential debate in 1960, realizing TV news needed personality, not just information.
The '60 Minutes style' became so synonymous with aggressive journalism that 'getting the 60 Minutes treatment' entered political lexicon as code for career-ending exposure.
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