Season 43

2010

Episode 1 A Relentless Enemy; People Behind the Mosque; Cool Brees September 26, 2010, 44 min Tonight's first story features Lara Logan back to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Last time she was there, she and her crew were fired on - by fighters in a Pakistani sanctuary.…
Episode 2 Unfinished Business; The Go-To-Guy; Giving Away A Fortune October 3, 2010, 44 min Lesley Stahl goes to Iraq to report on the sources of conflict that could erupt once the U.S. withdraws; Also Kenneth Feinberg. Just in case you don't know who this…
Episode 3 High Frequency Trading; Nelson Mandela; Eminem October 10, 2010, 44 min THE SPEED TRADERS - Steve Kroft gets a rare look inside the secretive world of "high-frequency trading," a controversial technique the SEC is scrutinizing in which computers can make thousands…
Episode 4 City of David/Stand Down/Market Street October 17, 2010, 44 min CITY OF DAVID - Lesley Stahl reports from under the city of Jerusalem from a controversial archeological dig that has become a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Shachar Bar-On is…
Episode 5 The 99ers/Jane Goodall/Top Gear October 24, 2010, 44 min THE 99ERS - Even after an extension of unemployment benefits to 99 weeks, many of those without work are still jobless and in a quandary. Scott Pelley talks to some…
Episode 6 Anger in the Land/Tax the Rich/Zenyatta October 31, 2010, 44 min ANGER IN THE LAND - Scott Pelley reports from Newton, Iowa, where the closing of an appliance factory is causing a negative effect on the community's economy. Robert Anderson, Daniel…
Episode 7 President Obama/Pacman November 7, 2010, 44 min PRESIDENT OBAMA - President Obama takes questions from Steve Kroft in his first one-on-one interview since his party's midterm election defeat in the House. Michael Radutzky and L. Franklin Devine…
Episode 8 Shaleionaires/Haiti/Medal of Honor November 14, 2010, 44 min SHALEIONAIRES - While some complain that extracting natural gas from shale rock formations is tainting their water supply, others who have allowed drilling on their property are getting wealthy and…
Episode 9 The Merchant of Death/Designing Life/Mark Wahlberg November 21, 2010, 44 min THE MERCHANT OF DEATH - The Drug Enforcement Administration agents who caught the alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout explain how they lured and then captured the suspect one of them…
Episode 10 Good Cop, Bad Cop/Spider-Man/John Paul Stevens November 28, 2010, 44 min GOOD COP, BAD COP - The Afghan National Police force is more important to the security of the country than the army, but despite improvements, there are still drug abuse…
Episode 11 The Chairman/Facebook December 5, 2010, 44 min THE CHAIRMAN - The chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke gives a rare interview to Scott Pelley in which he discusses pressing economic issues, including the unemployment rate, the…
Episode 12 The Next Speaker/Brazil/Jerry Jones December 12, 2010, 44 min THE NEXT SPEAKER - Rep. John Boehner will become the speaker of the House next month, but few know this Ohio Republican beyond his life in Washington. Lesley Stahl profiles…
Episode 13 The Day of Reckoning/Endless Memory December 19, 2010, 44 min THE DAY OF RECKONING - Steve Kroft reports on the growing financial difficulties states across the country are facing. James Jacoby is the producer. ENDLESS MEMORY - Lesley Stahl reports…
Episode 14 Into The Wild December 26, 2010, 44 min A SPECIAL HOUR DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL WORLD THE GREAT MIGRATION - Scott Pelley visits Kenya, the site of the great wildebeest migration, and looks at the threats to this…
Episode 15 Bad Medicine/Wynton January 2, 2011, 44 min BAD MEDICINE - Drug company whistle-blower Cheryl Eckard tells Scott Pelley about her experience trying to fix problems at a pharmaceutical factory that made her a key figure in a…
Episode 16 The Big Gamble/Silver or Lead/A Living for the Dead January 9, 2011, 44 min THE BIG GAMBLE - Lesley Stahl reports on the proliferation of gambling to 38 states and its main attraction, the slot machine, newer versions of which some scientists believe may…
Episode 17 Descent Into Madness/Yemen/The Gambler January 16, 2011, 44 min DESCENT INTO MADNESS - 60 MINUTES talks to Jared Loughner's friends and classmates and to ex-Secret Service, to reconstruct the pathway to mass murder he allegedly took in Tucson -…
Episode 18 Wikileaks/In Search of the Jaguar January 30, 2011, 44 min WIKILEAKS - Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, speaks to Steve Kroft about the U.S. attempt to indict him on criminal charges and the torrent of criticism aimed at…
Episode 19 Gotti February 6, 2011, 44 min A SPECIAL HOUR WITH THE FIRST EXTENDED INTERVIEW OF JOHN GOTTI, JR. John Gotti, Jr. talks to Steve Kroft in his first extended television interview about growing up with the…
Episode 20 New Age Revolution/The 33/Lady Gaga February 13, 2011, 44 min NEW AGE REVOLUTION – Harry Smith reports on the latest events from Egypt, including an in-depth interview with Wael Ghonim. Tom Anderson, Andy Court, Harry A. Radliffe II, Jeff Newton…
Episode 21 The Spark/Scott Brown: Against All Odds/The King’s Speech February 20, 2011, 44 min THE SPARK - Bob Simon reports from Tunisia, where protests against the repressive government not only toppled its autocratic ruler, but sparked the uprising in Egypt that forced President Hosni…
Episode 22 21st Century Cons February 27, 2011, 44 min 60 MINUTES presents a special hour with two stories featuring hidden cameras that capture conmen at work. 21st CENTURY SNAKE OIL - 60 MINUTES hidden cameras expose medical conmen who…
Episode 24 Curve Ball/Counterfeit Drugs/The $125,000 Question March 13, 2011, 44 min Curve Ball - Bob Simon interviews the Iraqi defector code-named "Curve Ball" - first identified by 60 MINUTES three years ago - whose false tale of a mobile, biological weapons…
Episode 25 Japan/The N-word/The Archbishop March 20, 2011, 44 min Japan - Scott Pelley reports on the American team working to avert nuclear disaster in Japan after the tsunami crippled a power plant. Robert Anderson and Henry Schuster are the…
Episode 26 The New Tax Havens/One Child At A Time/Coach Hurley March 27, 2011, 44 min The New Tax Havens - American companies are finding new overseas tax havens to legally protect some of their profits from the U.S. tax rate of 35 percent, among the…
Episode 27 The Next Housing Shock/Gospel for Teens April 3, 2011, 44 min The Next Housing Shock - As more and more Americans face mortgage foreclosure, banks' crucial ownership documents for the properties are often unclear and are sometimes even bogus - a…
Episode 28 The Murder of Louis Allen/The Library/Albert Pujols April 10, 2011, 44 min The Murder of Louis Allen - Steve Kroft's 18-month investigation into a 47-yr.old murder in a Mississippi town sheds light on an unsolved civil rights killing near the top of…
Episode 29 Greg Mortenson/The Case of Beckett Brennan/The Co-Founder April 17, 2011, 44 min Greg Mortenson - He's written inspiring best sellers, including "Three Cups of Tea," but are the stories all true? Steve Kroft investigates. Andy Court and Kevin Livelli are the producers.…
Episode 30 Mount Athos/The Billionaire April 24, 2011, 44 min Mount Athos - Bob Simon steps back in time when he gets rare access to monks in ancient monasteries on a remote Greek peninsula who have lived a Spartan life…
Episode 31 Lara Logan/Mitch Landrieu/Zenyatta May 1, 2011, 44 min Lara Logan - In her first television interview since being sexually assaulted two months ago, the CBS News chief foreign correspondent and 60 MINUTES reporter reveals what happened to her…
Episode 32 Killing Bin Laden: The President’s Story May 8, 2011, 44 min President Obama gives his first and only interview since the killing of Osama bin Laden to "60 Minutes." The president will reveal to Steve Kroft for the first time his…
Episode 33 The Soldiers’ Secretary/Afghanistan’s Top Spy/Sovereign Citizens May 15, 2011, 44 min Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on a five-day mission to the Middle East.
Episode 34 Armstrong/The FBI and the Grim Reaper May 22, 2011, 44 min "Armstrong" examines the allegations that world famous cyclist Lance Armstrong is using performance enhancing drugs. "The FBI and the Grim Reaper" looks at FBI agent Lin Vecchio who help put…
Episode 35 U.S. v. Drake/Children in the Fields/Al Sharpton May 22, 2011, 44 min "U.S. v. Drake" looks at former NSA executive Thomas Drake who claims 9/11 could have been stopped though he now faces espionage charges. "Children in the Fields" examines how some…
Episode 36 Medal of Honor/A Relentless Enemy May 29, 2011, 44 min Medal of Honor - The first living soldier to win the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War tells Lara Logan in an emotional interview just what he did to…
Episode 37 The Speed Traders/City of David/Lady Gaga June 5, 2011, 44 min The Speed Traders - Steve Kroft gets a rare look inside the secretive world of "high-frequency trading," a controversial technique the SEC is scrutinizing in which computers can make thousands…
Episode 38 Designing Life/The N-Word/The King’s Speech June 12, 2011, 44 min Designing Life - Steve Kroft profiles famous microbiologist Craig Venter, whose scientists have already mapped the human genome and created what he calls "the first synthetic species." The N-Word -…
Episode 39 The Spark/Endless Memory June 19, 2011, 44 min The Spark - Bob Simon reports from Tunisia, where protests against the repressive government not only toppled its autocratic ruler, but sparked the uprising in Egypt that forced President Hosni…
Episode 40 Hard Times Generation/Wynton Marsalis June 26, 2011, 44 min Hard Times Generation - For some children, socializing and learning in school are being cruelly complicated by homelessness, as Scott Pelley reports from Florida, where school buses now stop at…
Episode 41 The Murder of Louis Allen/One Child at a Time/The Library July 3, 2011, 44 min The Murder of Louis Allen - Steve Kroft's 18-month investigation into a 47-yr.old murder in a Mississippi town sheds light on an unsolved civil rights killing near the top of…
Episode 42 Shaleionaires/Stand Down/Market Street July 10, 2011, 44 min Shaleionaires - While some complain that extracting natural gas from shale rock formations is tainting their water supply, others who have allowed drilling on their property are getting wealthy and…
Episode 43 Silver or Lead/The Gambler/In Search of Jaguars July 17, 2011, 44 min Silver or Lead - Byron Pitts reports on the murder of the mayor of a Mexican city, where powerful drug gangs seem to be giving authorities a choice of "silver…
Episode 44 Resurrecting Eden/Mitch Landrieu/The ?Sharkman? July 24, 2011, 44 min Resurrecting Eden - In Southern Iraq where many biblical scholars place the Garden of Eden, Scott Pelley finds a water world where the "Marsh Arabs" are making a comeback after…
Episode 45 The Big Gamble/Brazil/Mark Wahlberg July 31, 2011, 44 min The Big Gamble - Lesley Stahl reports on the proliferation of gambling to 38 states and its main attraction, the slot machine, newer versions of which some scientists believe may…
Episode 46 The next housing shock/The co-founder/Eminem August 7, 2011, 44 min The next housing shock - As more and more Americans face mortgage foreclosure, banks' crucial ownership documents for the properties are often unclear and are sometimes even bogus - a…
Episode 47 The new tax havens/Top Gear/Albert Pujols August 14, 2011, 44 min The new tax havens - American companies are finding new overseas tax havens to legally protect some of their profits from the U.S. tax rate of 35 percent - among…
Episode 48 U.S. vs. DRAKE/The 33/The Archbishop August 21, 2011, 44 min U.S. vs. DRAKE - Tom Drake, a former National Security Agency senior executive, was indicted last year for espionage after leaking allegations to the media that the nation's largest intelligence…
Episode 49 Greg Mortenson/Gospel for Teens August 28, 2011, 44 min Greg Mortenson - He's written inspiring best sellers, including "Three Cups of Tea," but are the stories all true? Gospel for Teens - Lesley Stahl spends a year following the…
Episode 50 WikiLeaks/Resurrecting the extinct September 4, 2011, 44 min WikiLeaks - Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, speaks to Steve Kroft about the U.S. attempt to indict him on criminal charges and the torrent of criticism aimed at…
Episode 51 The interrogator/Remembering 9/11 September 11, 2011, 44 min The interrogator - Few know more about the 9/11 investigation than Ali Soufan, who questioned members of al Qaeda after the attack. The former FBI agent reveals himself for the…
Episode 52 ?I’ve never seen the like?/Spy on the ice/Jerry Jones September 18, 2011, 44 min "I've never seen the like" - After many requests for help from his ambushed unit were denied, Dakota Meyer took matters into his own hands, going through a gauntlet of…