The late Sen. Ted Kennedy, champion of the recent health plan legislation, actually delayed comprehensive coverage for Americans for decades, says former President Jimmy Carter. It was Kennedy's actions to kill Carter's own health care bill that made Americans wait more than 30 years for meaningful coverage, says Carter in an interview with Lesley Stahl. The interview will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday, Sept. 19 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS©2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved BEST QUALITY: SCREEN GRAB.
Martin Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone, re-enacts the world's first public cell phone call that he made in the same spot 37 years ago -- the corner of 53rd and Avenue if the Americas in New York City. Cooper is holding a model of the first cell phone that his team at Motorola developed and introduced in 1973. The father of the now-ubiquitous device talks to Morley Safer (r.) for a 60 MINUTES profile to be broadcast Sunday, May 23 (7:00-8:00PM, ET/PT) 2010 on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBSNews/60MINUTES HD Frame Grab
Behind the scenes with Lesley Stahl, correspondent for 60 MINUTES, while she tapes her segment, in March, 2010. 60 Minutes broadcasts, Sundays (7:00 - 8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: John Paul Filo/CBS©2010 CBS BROADCASTING INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Behind the scenes with Scott Pelley, correspondent for 60 MINUTES, while he tapes his segment, March 19, 2010. 60 Minutes broadcasts, Sundays (7:00 - 8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: John Paul Filo/CBS©2010 CBS BROADCASTING INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Conan O'Brien refutes NBC's contention that The Tonight Show he briefly hosted was losing money and also tells Steve Kroft the six months he had the show were not long enough to declare it a failure with viewers. O'Brien appears in his first interview since being forced from his Tonight Show role in a 60 MINUTES segment to be broadcast Sunday, May 2 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network Photo:CBS New
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Conan O'Brien refutes NBC's contention that The Tonight Show he briefly hosted was losing money and also tells Steve Kroft the six months he had the show were not long enough to declare it a failure with viewers. O'Brien appears in his first interview since being forced from his Tonight Show role in a 60 MINUTES segment to be broadcast Sunday, May 2 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network Photo:CBS New
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Conan O'Brien refutes NBC's contention that The Tonight Show he briefly hosted was losing money and also tells Steve Kroft the six months he had the show were not long enough to declare it a failure with viewers. O'Brien appears in his first interview since being forced from his Tonight Show role in a 60 MINUTES segment to be broadcast Sunday, May 2 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network Photo:CBS New
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Then-presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke with Steve Kroft on the campaign trail in Elko, NV, late in the summer of 2008. Portions of this 60 MINUTES interview and several others including material not included in the original broadcasts were used to produce "The Road to the White House," an hourlong edition of 60 MINUTES to be broadcast Sunday Dec. 28 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television network.
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President-elect Brack Obama and his wife Michelle in their first post-election interview broadcast on 60 MINUTES Nov. 16. Portions of this 60 MINUTES interview and several others including material not included in the original broadcasts were used to produce "The Road to the White House," an hourlong edition of 60 MINUTES to be broadcast Sunday Dec. 28 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television network.
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60 MINUTES scored its highest Nielsen metered market rating in almost a decade last night(16) and will almost surely be Nielsen's number-one program for the week for the second consecutive week when final national numbers are released tomorrow (18). The broadcast featured the first post-election interview of the President Elect and the First Lady elect. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, spoke to Steve Kroft last Friday in Chicago.
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60 MINUTES correspondent Lesley Stahl begins her 17th season this fall on the original news magazine, broadcast Sundays on the CBS Television Network. Photo:JohnFilo/ CBS ©2002 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360û," will contribute as many as five reports a year to CBS News' 60 MINUTES, television's number one news program,. The appointment is effective at the start of the 2006-07 television season.
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60 MINUTES Co-Editor and CBS News Correspondent Andy Rooney, will announce on this Sunday's "60 Minutes" that it will be his last regular appearance on the broadcast. Rooney, 92, has been featured on "60 Minutes" since 1978..
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