07/19/2026: Healing Justice, Flight of the Monarchs
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
It’s rare for 60 MINUTES to follow a story for 15 years, but Lesley Stahl reports on Jennifer Thompson, a rape victim who learned years after her attack that an innocent man had been sent to prison, a story Stahl covered in 2009. In this era of DNA exonerations, Thompson has come to believe that crime victims are forgotten, and even blamed, when the justice system gets it wrong. She has created Healing Justice, an organization that brings together the wrongfully convicted, crime victims and family members for multi-day intensive retreats and invites 60 MINUTES to come along as they share their stories and move together on a path of healing. This is a double-length segment. Shari Finkelstein is the producer.
One of the most awe-inspiring and mysterious migrations in the natural world is currently taking place, stretching from Mexico to the United States and Canada. This incredible spectacle involves millions of monarch butterflies embarking on a monumental aerial journey. Correspondent Anderson Cooper reports from the mountains of Mexico, where the monarchs spent the winter months sheltering in trees before emerging from their slumber to take flight. Denise Schrier Cetta is the producer.
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| 0:00.0 | Good job. |
| 0:10.0 | It's rare for 60 minutes to follow a story for 17 years. |
| 0:14.8 | But tonight you'll be reintroduced to Jennifer Thompson, a rape victim who mistakenly |
| 0:20.4 | identified an innocent man who was sent to prison. |
| 0:24.0 | And then I'm going to tie my string. |
| 0:26.2 | Jennifer has created something called Healing Justice, a program that brings together crime victims, |
| 0:32.3 | family members, and innocent men. |
| 0:34.9 | Dear Chris, you failed in life. |
| 0:40.3 | Why did you confess? I will never have confessed. Why can't you just be quiet? |
| 0:42.3 | You are an angry black man. |
| 0:45.3 | You will never know love. |
| 0:46.3 | You will always be a prisoner. |
| 0:52.3 | It's not easy to get to, and it's not easy to see at first, but then one of the most amazing migration stories in nature reveals itself. |
| 1:08.0 | Towers of monarch butterflies, orange, twisting, soaring, and one of the most remarkable things we've ever seen. |
| 1:21.2 | I'm Leslie Stahl. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm John Wertheim. |
| 1:24.4 | I'm Anderson Cooper. |
| 1:25.3 | I'm Bill Whitaker. |
| 1:27.1 | Those stories tonight on 60 Minutes. |
| 1:28.3 | 17 years ago, |
| 1:29.3 | 17 years ago, we reported on a woman named Jennifer Thompson, a rape victim who was devastated to learn years after her assault, that she and the police had identified an innocent man who was convicted and sent to prison while the actual rapist had gone on to attack several more women. |
| 2:00.8 | It's not an uncommon story in this era of |
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