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60 Minutes

6/5/2022: The Longest Running Oil Spill, Canada’s Unmarked Graves, Carnegie Heroes

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this edition of "60 Minutes," Jon Wertheim talks with two men trying to end the longest running oil spill in U.S. history, spanning almost two decades. Anderson Cooper investigates the brutal past of Canada’s “residential school system.” Scott Pelley reports on the science behind what makes people heroic. 

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My first reaction was the hidden micron droplets that's coming out from the seafloor.

0:42.3

This is an underwater volcano.

0:44.8

He is talking about the longest running oil spill in U.S. history.

0:49.1

And tonight, you'll hear how this homegrown Cajun engineer and this no-nonsense Coast Guard captain said,

0:56.6

enough is enough, and hatched a plan first tried in a backyard pool to stanch a spill that has

1:03.3

sullied the Gulf of Mexico for almost two decades.

1:08.7

I grew up a very, very mean woman because of all what happened to me.

1:17.4

You learned that here, you think?

1:18.9

Yeah.

1:20.2

She is not the only one.

1:22.8

More than 150,000 children were sent to residential schools,

1:26.9

which Canada's first prime minister supported to, in his words, severed children from the tribe and civilized them.

1:35.0

My name was number 65 for all those years.

1:38.6

Just a number?

1:39.3

Just a number.

1:41.1

65, pick that up, stupid, or 65, why did you do that, idiot?

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