Episode Guide
Season
Episode Guide
A zoo for rescued animals, beneath a Key West jail
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Apr 28, 2024
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office Animal Farm, a small zoo on the grounds of a detention facility in Key West, was started by accident in the mid-1990s when word got out that the sheriff had rescued some ducks from a nearby road. Since then, many animals – abandoned, abused, confiscated or donated – have been brought to the farm, which is maintained by a small team of people incarcerated there. Correspondent Conor Knighton reports on a zoo that is making a difference in the lives of those incarcerated as well as the more than 100 animals currently residing there.
The pageantry of the 150th Kentucky Derby
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Apr 28, 2024
2024 marks the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby, the longest continuously-held sporting event in America. Correspondent Jim Axelrod visits Churchill Downs to explore the history and spectacle of the "Run for the Roses."
An officer and a baby
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Apr 28, 2024
Twenty-four years ago, Gene Eyster, then with the South Bend, Ind., police department, received a call about a newborn baby found abandoned in a cardboard box. For more than two decades, Eyster wondered what became of that boy. A few weeks ago, he found out, perhaps when he needed to most. Steve Hartman reports.
Nature: Wildflowers in Missouri
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Apr 28, 2024
We leave you this Sunday surrounded by spring wildflowers at the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri. Videographer: Scot Miller.
Dan Rather, at 92, on a life in news
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Apr 28, 2024
It's been almost 20 years since Dan Rather signed off as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," at the network where he spent 44 years covering wars, politics, and the assassination of JFK – and where he mentored a young correspondent named Lee Cowan. Rather, now 92, talks with Cowan about his illustrious career; about the story that gave him (and CBS) a black eye; and his post-CBS years, writing books and finding a new, younger audience on social media.
Passage: In memoriam
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Apr 28, 2024
"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who recently left us, including keyboardist Mike Pinder, of The Moody Blues.
Remembering conjoined twins Lori and George Schappell
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Apr 28, 2024
Jane Pauley looks back at the lives of Lori and George Schappell – conjoined twins whose skulls were partly fused – who died in Philadelphia earlier this month at the age of 62.
Kate Hudson on her "Glorious" album
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Apr 28, 2024
Kate Hudson made a name for herself as an Oscar-nominated actress in "Almost Famous." But music has always been in her blood, and now Hudson is making a name for herself as a singer-songwriter. She talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about her debut album, "Glorious," filled with her songs about life and love, and reveals the one song that truly rips her heart out.
Uncovering the artwork of Stanley Whitney
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Apr 28, 2024
He's been painting for more than 50 years, but artist Stanley Whitney – whose bold, colorful canvases offer vibrant hues and deliberately ferocious brushstrokes – is just now getting his first major retrospective (including many works never before exhibited publicly), at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, N.Y. Correspondent Alina Cho talks with Whitney about the breakthrough that came during his artistic journey.
Erik Larson on the first shots of the Civil War
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Apr 28, 2024
Beginning on April 12, 1861, over the course of two days, more than 3,300 shells and cannon balls rained across Charleston Harbor towards Fort Sumter, the first shots fired in the Civil War. Correspondent Anthony Mason visits the fort with bestselling author Erik Larson, whose latest book, "The Demon of Unrest," explores the events leading up to the bombardment and what Larson calls "the single most consequential day in American history."
Campus unrest: Will protests make a difference?
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Apr 28, 2024
It's been an upsetting time on American college campuses, where protests over the war in Gaza, fueled by social media, have divided students, faculty and administrators. Why are protests erupting now? And are they effective? Correspondent David Pogue talks with Michael Kazin, a veteran of 1960s anti-war protests; Dan Mogulof, public affairs officer at UC Berkeley; and Georgetown University protest organizer Selina al-Shihabi, about the tensions between free speech and public safety.
Almanac: April 28
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Apr 28, 2024
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
Take it easy – The importance of being lazy
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Apr 28, 2024
Social pressures to be productive – not to mention a culture that prizes multitasking – make doing nothing hard to do, for fear of being accused of the dreaded sin of laziness. However, experts say there are rewards for not pushing yourself to the edge all the time. Correspondent Susan Spencer looks at how some of the most productive and innovative people in history allowed themselves to take time out, just to be.
4/28: The Book Report by Washington Post critic Ron Charles
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Apr 28, 2024
The "Sunday Morning" book reviewer offers his picks from this month's new fiction and non-fiction titles, including a new book by Amor Towles, author of "A Gentleman in Moscow," and Judi Dench's love letter to Shakespeare.