Archives: 2018

Reviving a squirrel with CPR

“Life is life,” said 19-year-old Chris Felix, who was desperately trying to revive a young one who’d darted out in front of his car in Brooklyn Park, Minn. The subject of his attention was a squirrel. Steve Hartman talked with Felix and with two police officers who responded to the scene of a unique application of CPR. Categories: National, US…

A shot fired, a World War II soldier’s remorse

Clarence Smoyer, now 94, was a gunner with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Division who’d come ashore in Normandy three weeks after D-Day, criss-crossed France and Belgium, and in March of 1945 fought to capture the German city of Cologne. There, during a firefight with a German tank, a car rounded a corner and was hit. Katharina Esser, a young…

Remembering 1968: The return of Richard Nixon

Richard Schlesinger looks back at the hard-fought race for the presidency in the turbulent year of 1968, when President Johnson withdrew from seeking re-election, and Richard Nixon – following losses in runs for the White House and the California Governor’s Mansion – won the Republican presidential nomination and, ultimately, the presidency. Richard Schlesinger talks with biographer Evan Thomas, Nixon aide…

Nature: Autumn colors

“Sunday Morning” takes us to Stinson Lake in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Videographer: Carl Mrozek. Categories: National, US & World News

Conversion therapy: God only knows

An estimated 700,000 adults in the U.S. have received a controversial treatment known as reparative, or conversion therapy, under the belief that homosexuality is caused by nurture, not nature, and can be “cured.” Erin Moriarty talks with young men and women who had undergone the treatment (voluntarily or at the behest of their families) in order to adhere to their…

Almanac: Route 66

On November 11, 1926, officials green-lighted plans for the future highway, stretching 2,400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles, nicknamed the “Mother Road” Categories: National, US & World News

Almanac: Historic Route 66

On November 11, 1926, officials green-lighted plans for the future highway, stretching 2,400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles, nicknamed the “Mother Road.” Jane Pauley reports on an American landmark. Categories: National, US & World News

From 1991: Bill Geist travels Route 66, the “Main Street of America”

It’s a storied American highway that traversed 2,400 miles beginning in Chicago, and not ending until it had to, at the Pacific Ocean. Bill Geist gets his kicks on a stretch of the historic Route 66 in New Mexico, riding along with Tom Snyder, author of “The Route 66 Traveler’s Guide and Roadside Companion,” and talks with Tom LaMance, proprietor…

11/10: CBS Evening News

Southern California fire burns mobile homes, Malibu mansions; Florida begins recounting votes for Senate, governor elections. Categories: National, US & World News