This week on "Sunday Morning" (August 4)
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HEADLINES: Police search for motive in El Paso Walmart mass shooting (Video)
Police in Texas say they are closing in a motive for a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso Saturday, in which 20 people were killed and more than two dozen injured. The suspect is in custody. Correspondent Janet Shamlian has the latest.
COVER STORY: Guns and public health | Watch Video
This past winter more than 40 medical organizations joined forces to confront the 40,000 firearm-related deaths that occur each year – a public health epidemic, they say, that can be addressed. Dr. Jon LaPook reports.
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ALMANAC: The silencing of the telephone | Watch Video
On August 4, 1922, at 6:25 p.m. ET, telephone service across the U.S. and Canada was shut down for one full minute in honor of the late Alexander Graham Bell. Jane Pauley reports.
POSTCARD FROM SRI LANKA: Swimming with whales (Video)
The Indian Ocean is home to one of the most diverse whale populations in the world – as many as 18 species live there. And no one can get you closer to these hauntingly mysterious creatures than American wildlife photographer Patrick Dykstra. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti joined Dykstra as they went swimming with whales in the waters off Sri Lanka.
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TELEVISION: The artistry of Angela Bassett | Watch Video
Actress Angela Bassett, who has played roles that are fierce, sultry and iconic, had an upbringing molded by two strong women. She talks with correspondent Michelle Miller about how her mother and her aunt helped shape her pursuit of an acting career. The busy mother of two also talks about her new Netflix film, "Otherhood," in which she plays one of a trio of mothers trying to reconnect with their adult children.
For more info:
- "Otherhood" (Netflix)
- "911" returns to Fox on Sept. 23
- Follow im.angelabassett on Instagram
Exhibition: "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983" at The Broad museum in Los Angeles (through September 1)
HARTMAN: The valuable advice of old coots (Video)
A tradition is brewing In Salt Lake City where, every Saturday in the summer, a group of senior citizens who regularly meet and gab at a local coffee shop are offering up free advice to anyone who visits their booth at a farmer's market, under the banner reading "Old Coots Giving Advice." But don't anyone expect all their advice to be good. (Dear Abby, they are not.) Steve Hartman talked with the Old Coots about their pearls of wisdom mixed in with the jokes.
RETROSPECTIVE: Woodstock at 50: A return to "ground zero for peace and love" | Watch Video
In the summer of 1969 a festival promising "three days of peace and music" was announced in upstate New York. Four hundred thousand people showed up at what would become a monumental human event. Jim Axelrod talks to a few of those who were there, from musicians John Fogerty and Graham Nash, to a young couple, Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, who returned for the first time in 50 years to the site of the festival, where in 1969 a photograph of them captured a unique moment in music history.
PREVIEW VIDEO: John Fogerty on the musical legacy of Woodstock
One of the founding members of Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Fogerty, talked with correspondent Jim Axelrod about his experience playing at the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in Bethel, N.Y., and how it inspired his 1970 classic, "Who'll Stop the Rain."
WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Graham Nash performs "Teach Your Children"
The singer-songwriter, who was a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and is still a member of the Woodstock generation, tells CBS News' Jim Axelrod he is "still a hippie … The basic ideas are that love is better than hatred, that peace is much better than war, that we have to take care of our fellow human beings 'cause this is all we have. Those tenets that were established then are still relevant to me today." Graham Nash performs his song "Teach Your Children."
FROM THE ARCHIVE: From 1979: Looking back at Woodstock (Video)
On the 10th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, "Sunday Morning" talked with some of those who were there: Singers David Crosby and David Crosby, of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and Paul Kantner, of Jefferson Airplane, who performed on stage; and environmental advocate Mark Trautwein, who was among the vast sea of young people in attendance. Correspondent Lem Tucker reports. Originally broadcast on August 12, 1979.
For more info:
- Footage from the documentary "Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music" licensed by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
- "Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music" (1970), directed by Michael Wadleigh, released by Warner Brothers, available on Blu-ray/DVD (Amazon) and via Streaming (Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube)
- Images © Barry Z Levine, courtesy of the photographer (woodstockwitness.com), and © Burk Uzzle
- John Fogerty
- Graham Nash
BY THE NUMBERS: The Woodstock festival | Watch Video
COMICS: How the Peanuts character Woodstock got his name | Watch Video
The Charles M. Schulz Museum, in Santa Rosa, Calif., is celebrating one of the most popular "Peanuts" characters with an exhibition devoted to Woodstock, the little "hippie bird" who became a devoted friend of Snoopy's. Luke Burbank talks with the comic strip artist's widow, Jean Schulz, exhibition curator Benjamin Clark, and cartoonist Paige Braddock, about the important role Woodstock played in the Peanuts universe.
WEB EXTRA VIDEO: How to draw Woodstock the bird
There are tricks to drawing the faithful friend of Snoopy in Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip. Cartoonist Paige Braddock gave correspondent Luke Burbank some pointers.
For more info:
- Exhibition: "Peace, Love & Woodstock," at the Charles M. Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa, Calif. (through March 8, 2020)
- peanuts.com
- Paige Braddock (Wordpress)
ART: The Japanese art of tie dyeing | Watch Video
The art of applying resist-dyeing techniques to fabrics, also known as tie dying, has been practiced in Japan for hundreds of years. Correspondent Lucy Craft reports from the town of Arimatsu, where merchant houses specializing in producing exquisite "shibori" dyed fabrics have stood for centuries.
For more info:
- Arimatsu Narumi Tie-Dyeing Museum, Arimatsu, Japan
- Arimatsu: Tie-dyeing, landscapes, and Dashi Matsuri (Centrip Japan)
- Suzusan: Home & Living
- DIY Shibori
- Shibori Dying (Rit)
OPINION: Woodstock: Sign of the times | Watch Video
The three-day music festival held on a dairy farm in New York in August 1969 attended by 400,000 people wasn't a summation of the counterculture movement in America in the 1960s, says contributor Bill Flanagan, but rather a harbinger of things to come.
NATURE: Flowers of Oglala National Grasslands (Video)
"Sunday Morning" displays some true "flower power" at the Oglala National Grasslands in Nebraska.
For more info:
- Oglala National Grasslands, Chadron, Nebraska
WEB EXCLUSIVES:
CALENDAR: Week of August 5 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.
"SUN SPOTS": The sounds of Woodstock reborn | Watch Video
A new CD box set, "Woodstock 50: Back to the Garden," captures virtually every minute of audio from the 1969 music festival, from the performers to P.A. announcements and audience interactions. "Sunday Morning" producer Sara Kugel talked with music producer Andy Zax and audio engineer Brian Kehew about canvassing the contents of the Warner Music Vault in Los Angeles to create a magnum opus chronicling an unparalleled event in music history.
For more info:
- "Woodstock 50: Back to the Garden – The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive" (Rhino Records), published as a 38-disc set (which include a Blu-ray of the film "Woodstock"), as well as a 10-CD or 3-CD set, and a 5-LP vinyl collection; Available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble
RESTORATION: A Woodstock icon recreated: The VW "Light Bus"
A new documentary chronicles efforts to locate a long-lost totem of the '60s counterculture and bring it back to life.
For more info:
- "The Woodstock Bus," an original documentary produced by Arcadia Content, debuts on the on-demand streaming service CuriosityStream August 12.
- woodstockvwbus.com
- lightvwbus.com – Decoding the symbols of the Light Bus
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