This week on "Sunday Morning" (August 23)
Guest host: Lee Cowan.
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COVER STORY: Back to school, and into uncertainty | Watch Video
With every state experiencing a different COVID infection rate, schools across the country are reopening with a mix of in-person and virtual instruction – and the insecurities, disagreements and fears about protecting children remain. David Pogue explores the difficult choices parents and teachers face about sending students back to class in the midst of a pandemic.
For more info:
- New York City Department of Education
- Chancellor Richard Carranza, New York City Department of Education
- Preparatory Academy for Writers, Queens, N.Y.
- Marvin Wright Elementary School, Spring Hill, Tenn.
- Dr. Sally Goza, president, American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Academy of Pediatrics: COVID-19 Planning Considerations: Guidance for School Re-entry
FOOD: Watermelons, for a taste of summer (Video)
There's nothing that counteracts the heat of summer quite like a big, sweet, juicy slice of watermelon. Luke Burbank offers up the history and lore behind that thirst-quenching favorite.
For more info:
- Bellinger Farms, Hermiston, Ore.
- Ken Albala, professor, University of The Pacific, Stockton, Calif.
- Fruit Mould
- watermelon.org
VOTING: How suffragists finally won the right to vote for women | Watch Video
One hundred years ago the 19th Amendment, which would protect women's right to vote, was just one vote short of ratification. "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan reports on how the landmark legislation finally earned passage, and talks with historians Elaine Weiss, Susan Ware and Martha S. Jones about how suffragists such as Carrie Chapman Catt won the long-pitched battle which, for black women, continued long after the amendment became embedded in our Constitution. Brennan also talks with singer Rosanne Cash about the suffragists' legacy.
For more info:
- "The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote" by Elaine Weiss (Viking), in Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Bookshop.org
- elaineweiss.com
- "Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote" by Susan Ware (Belknap Press), in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Bookshop.org
- susanware.net
- "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All" by Martha S. Jones (Basic Books), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available September 8 via Bookshop.org
- rosannecash.com
- Votes for Women: Legacy of the 19th Amendment (Nashville Public Library)
- Nashville Public Library
- Hermitage Hotel, Nashville
- Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.
- Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, Washington, D.C.
- All Female Highlight Pro Skydiving Team
- 19th Amendment (National Constitution Center)
SPORTS: The armless archer | Watch Video
One of the top-ranked archers in the country is 37-year-old Matt Stutzman of Fairfield, Iowa, who has medaled in a sport that many would have thought beyond his reach: he was born without arms. Lee Cowan finds out how, with a simple bow and arrow, a man who just wanted to provide for his family became an inspiration. (This story was originally broadcast on November 3, 2019.)
For more info:
- Matt Stutzman, Team USA
- Matt Stutzman, worldarchery.org
- Follow @ArmlessArcher on Twitter and Facebook
- The sports documentary "Rising Phoenix" debts on Netflix August 26
ANIMALS: Flying dogs to their forever homes | Watch Video
Correspondent Conor Knighton takes to the skies with Wyoming pilot Peter Rork, a retired surgeon and pilot who's found a new purpose in life by helping dogs in need find homes, flying animals to adoption centers through his non-profit, Dog Is My CoPilot.
For more info:
- Dog Is My CoPilot, Jackson, Wyo.
- El Paso Animal Services, El Paso, Texas
- One Tail at a Time, Portland, Ore.
PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
"Sunday Morning" looks back at some of the notable figures who left us this week, including actor Ben Cross ("Chariots of Fire"); drag performer Chi Chi DeVayne; Robert Trump, brother of President Donald Trump; former Washington Senator Slade Gorton; and classical guitarist Julian Bream.
PUBLISHING: Vanity Fair magazine seizes the moment | Watch Video
Next month Vanity Fair, best known for great reads and great photography chronicling Hollywood and high society, will release a special issue on activism and art in the 21st century, featuring contributors of color on almost every page. "Sunday Morning" contributor Mark Whitaker talks with bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates (who is the issue's guest editor) and editor-in-chief Radhika Jones about how the magazine is capturing the cultural zeitgeist, and how a summer of protests might represent a turning point for race relations in America.
For more info:
COMMENTARY: Jim Gaffigan: Back to (home) school | Watch Video
The comedian wonders whether another semester of "distance learning" will provide much learning for his kids, when they won't be all that distant from him.
For more info:
- jimgaffigan.com
- Follow @JimGaffigan on Twitter
- Watch "Dinner with the Gaffigans" on YouTube
TELEVISION: "Wheel of Fortune" star Vanna White, a woman of letters | Watch Video
Vanna White has demonstrated that no one reveals letters better than she does. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with the "Wheel of Fortune" co-host about her 37 years revealing puzzle clues, her inauspicious audition, and filling in for Pat Sajak during his recent emergency surgery. (This story was originally broadcast on March 1, 2020.)
For more info:
- Follow Vanna White on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
- Follow "Wheel of Fortune" on Instagram
- "Wheel of Fortune" (Official site)
HARTMAN: A lobsterman's friend (Video)
Pulling lobster traps way out in the middle of the Gulf of Maine can be a lonely job. But for 15 years, Captain John Makowsky had company – a gull he named Red Eye, who showed up one day in 2005 and basically never left. Steve Hartman reports how, when Red Eye suffered a leg injury a few months ago, Makowsky got the bird help at the Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick, Maine.
For more info:
- Center for Wildlife, Cape Neddick, Me.
ELECTION 2020: Unconventional wisdom regarding the GOP convention | Watch Video
"60 Minutes" correspondent John Dickerson shares his thoughts on what to expect from this week's Republican National Convention, where President Donald Trump and his party will make the case for a second term.
Don't miss CBS News' coverage of the 2020 Republican National Convention, beginning Monday, August 24 at 8:00 p.m. ET on CBSN.
For more info:
- 2020 Republican National Convention, August 24-27, from Charlotte, N.C.
MILEPOST: GOP trivia
According to Smithsonian Magazine and historynet.com, political cartoons used an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party, formed in 1854, in part because soldiers during the Civil War used the expression "seeing the elephant" to describe seeing combat. The elephant became all-but-synonymous with the party after famed cartoonist Thomas Nast used it in drawings appearing in the 1870s.
NATURE: Elephants in Botswana (Extended Video)
"Sunday Morning" takes us to Chobe National Park in Botswana, to witness a convention of the GOP … the Grand Old Pachyderms. Videographer: Alex Goetz.
For more info:
- Chobe National Park, Botswana
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: Finding their voices – Understanding stuttering
For the estimated three million Americans and 65 million worldwide who stutter, the 2010 movie "The King's Speech," by screenwriter David Seidler (a stutterer himself), brought stuttering into the spotlight. In this report originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" on January 30, 2011, correspondent Mo Rocca talks to young stutterers, a speech therapist, and researchers at Purdue University's Stuttering Project, and visits a workshop run by the organization Stuttering Association for the Young (formerly known as Our Time), to demystify a condition that's been around since man has been speaking.
"SUNDAY MORNING" MATINEE: "I Want You," from "Girl From The North Country"
"Girl From The North Country," a musical featuring the music of Bob Dylan, was the last show to open on Broadway prior to the shutdown in March due to the coronavirus outbreak. To express the show's message of hope, cast members Colton Ryan and Caitlin Houlahan came together virtually for this performance of the song "I Want You," recorded exclusively for "CBS Sunday Morning" viewers.
AWARD-WINNERS: 2020 New York Press Club Awards
"Sunday Morning" has received two Excellence in Journalism Awards from the New York Press Club from two recent reports:
BUSINESS: Deal or no deal? The expansion of Dollar Stores (Video)
It's the latest struggle between Main Street and corporate America: Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar have opened tens of thousands of retail outlets across the U.S., and in many rural areas they are the only game in town. Grocers say these stores have effectively forced them out of business, thereby reducing options for fresh food and produce for miles around. Experts say it is having negative effects on public health, but according to Dollar General it is up to consumers to decide where to shop and what to eat. Special Contributor Allison Aubrey, of National Public Radio, reports.
AMERICA: All her sons (Video)
When the AIDS crisis hit in the 1980s, Ruth Coker Burks – who'd inherited 262 plots in a family cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas – became a mother of sorts to countless sons, many abandoned by families and churches because they were suffering from what was then called the "gay cancer." Coker Burks became a one-woman AIDS help center: driving patients to appointments, trying to find doctors or drugs, or filling-out death certificates. And in many cases she gave them a final resting place. Seth Doane reports on the woman who has been called the "Cemetery Angel," who gave – and received – so many precious gifts.
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