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60 Minutes

6/14/2020: The College Test, Exhume the Truth, Three Empty Chairs

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Amid a still-present pandemic, John Dickerson reports on the the challenges colleges face -- as they prepare to re-open in the fall. Scott Pelley tells us about the Greenwood Massacre -- a two-day assault in 1921 on a thriving black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and what we are learning today. Plus -- The Merit Systems Protection Board gives two million federal civil service workers -- including whistleblowers -- a place to appeal should they be disciplined, demoted or fired. Norah O'Donnell has the story on this week's "60 Minutes."

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0:00.0

It's a test no one wants to fail, safely getting college and university students back to campus in the fall.

0:15.4

There's much to consider. And as you'll hear tonight, students, families, and educators are all feeling the burden.

0:22.9

One way it comes sheerly from uncertainty.

0:26.4

Human beings loathe it.

0:28.1

We will do almost anything, not to have it.

0:31.8

And we are called to tolerate uncertainty at a really high level right now.

0:38.1

In 1921, the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma,

0:42.8

was among the wealthiest black communities in America.

0:46.0

But it was destroyed in a race massacre.

0:49.8

Hate rained down on churches and homes from above.

0:54.0

The first time in American history, the airplanes were used, rained down on churches and homes from above.

0:59.8

The first time in American history, the airplanes were used to terrorize America.

1:02.9

It was not at 9-11, was not at Pearl Harbor.

1:05.7

It was right here in the Greenwood District.

1:12.2

The Merit Systems Protection Board, why should Americans know or care what that is?

1:20.3

This agency is there to help and protect federal employees from both bad supervisors and poor performers.

1:28.9

And all you need is one bad employee, one bad supervisor for things to go amok in any federal agency. And if you're getting your benefits, your services, whatever they are, safe drugs and medicine, you're going to want this

1:34.4

agency to be there. I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. I'm John Dickerson.

1:42.6

I'm Nora O'Donnell. I'm Scott Pelly.

1:45.2

Those stories and more tonight on 60 Minutes.

1:53.0

This fall, college will start with a test.

1:56.6

Can America's universities reopen during the greatest pandemic in a hundred years.

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