60 Minutes 7/12
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Scott Pelley investigates the evidence and speaks to victims' relatives and prosecutors of the Malaysia Flight 17 -- which was shot down over eastern Ukraine. Public monuments to the Confederacy have been generating controversy and sometimes violence over what critics consider their racist symbolism. Anderson Cooper examines the national debate. And Bill Whitaker gets unprecedented access to rehearsals of the modernized vision of this classic of the American musical theater "West Side Story." Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."
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| 0:07.5 | Two hundred ninety eight men, women and children were murdered, |
| 0:19.5 | while traveling from Amsterdam to Malaysia after an anti-aircraft missile shredded their |
| 0:24.9 | airliner over Ukraine. |
| 0:27.6 | No one has ever taken responsibility. |
| 0:31.2 | But tonight you will hear the evidence and the testimony of those who lost family in |
| 0:37.1 | such an unimaginable way. |
| 0:40.1 | I want to know who killed my children. |
| 0:48.7 | For 133 years, a colossal statue of General Robert E. Lee towered over a traffic circle near |
| 0:54.5 | downtown New Orleans. |
| 0:57.9 | Until went to the cheers and cheers of onlookers, the Confederacy's most celebrated military |
| 1:03.5 | hero was hoisted off its pedestal. |
| 1:06.5 | Really what these monuments were were alive? |
| 1:08.5 | Align what sense? |
| 1:09.5 | Well, in the sense that that Robert E. Lee was used as an example to send a message to |
| 1:14.6 | the rest of the country and to all the people that lived here, that the Confederacy was |
| 1:18.8 | a noble cause. |
| 1:20.3 | And that's just not true. |
| 1:21.8 | This is incredible. |
| 1:22.8 | Mayor Landrou agreed to show us what's become of General Lee and Beauregard. |
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