Calendar: Week of August 29
Here’s a look at the week ahead on our “Sunday Morning” Calendar:
On Monday, Senator and once-Republican presidential nominee John McCain celebrates his 80th birthday.
- John McCain responds to Donald Trump on “not a war hero” comments (CBS News, 07/20/15)
- John McCain: Donald Trump taps into GOP “anger, frustration” (“CBS Evening News,” 01/12/16)
- John McCain’s primary opponent suggests he might die in office (CBS News, 08/26/16)
Tuesday sees the Academy of Country
Music Honors ceremony in Nashville, which will be broadcast Friday, September
9, here on CBS.
- ACM Honors (Academy of Country Music)
- ACM Honors on CBS and CBS All Access,
Sept. 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Wednesday is the day for La Tomatina, billed
as the world’s largest food fight ... staged near Valencia, Spain every year
since World War II.
On Thursday, the late rock star Prince
will be honored by his former backing band, The Revolution, with the first of
three concerts in Minneapolis.
- “An Evening with The Revolution featuring Wendy, Lisa, Brownmark, Dr. Fink &Bobby Z” (Sept. 1) at First Avenue
- “An Evening with The Revolution” (Sept. 2-3) at First Avenue
- Prince backup band The Revolution to reunite
- Prince dead at 57 (CBS News, 04/21/16)
- Celebs share their heartbreak over Prince, dead at 57 (CBS News, 04/21/16)
- Prince: An appreciation by Bill Flanagan (“Sunday Morning,”
04/24/16)
On Friday, President Obama begins an
eight-day trip to China and Laos -- the first visit to Laos ever for a U.S.
President.
- Statement by the Press Secretary on thePresident’s Trip to China and Laos (White House, 08/18/16)
And Saturday marks the 40th
anniversary of the landing on Mars of NASA’s unmanned Viking 2 spacecraft.
- Mars missions: Viking 1 & 2
(nasa.gov)
- Viking 2 Lander (nasa.gov)
- Viking 2’s images of Mars (nasa.gov)