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Each episode, our Peabody Award-winning show, travels beyond the headlines to answer the question, how did we get here?

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The first boy to die was wrapped in the grief of Israel. In June, the night his mother

sat up worrying. 16-year-old Naftali Frankel and two friends were kidnapped and later shot by Palestinian terrorists.

The next day, Israeli terrorists kidnapped a Palestinian boy, same age.

Mohamed Abu Qadir was burned alive. Within days, it was war.

And not in 50 years were so many children about to die in the Holy Land.

This is inside the Washington Monument, the moment an earthquake struck Washington, D.C. in 2011.

One of the nation's most treasured memorials now had to close.

It would take a Superman to put it back together again, but in fact, it was Clark Kent in a suit and tie.

Armed was just a blackberry and a passion for American history.

It's a shorter version of it. He's David Rubinstein and he's spent hundreds of millions of his own

fortune to help save the monument and some of the other great symbols of American democracy.

60 minutes is constantly on the lookout for places we've never been before.

So when our late colleague Bob Simon heard about a magical place in the

Hebrides Islands off the coast of Scotland, known for making some of the great

whiskeys in the world, well, the story spoke to it.

Cheers.

We get literally thousands upon thousands of single malt tourists coming here.

They come from all over the world just to set foot on island.

To study it?

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