60 Minutes 7/25
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "60 Minutes," Sharyn Alfonsi reports on how Curtis Flowers, tried six times for the same crime, was saved from death row. Bill Whitaker introduces us to the nine members of the Wright family, who are professional saddle bronc riders who rank among the best in the world. Five years after Prince’s death, his estate released songs from his previously unreleased album, “Welcome 2 America.” Prince wrote and recorded the album before embarking on his 2010 “Welcome 2 America” tour. But he didn’t perform songs from it. The songs first premiered right here on "60 Minutes," Here's Jon Wertheim.
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| 0:06.1 | And every breakthrough was the result of somebody doing the breaking through. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm David Poe. |
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| 0:37.2 | This case is unprecedented in the history of the American legal system. |
| 0:41.8 | Curtis Flowers, a black man from Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime by |
| 0:47.6 | the same prosecutor. |
| 0:49.8 | Mr. Flowers might still be on death row. |
| 0:52.4 | If it wasn't for an investigation led by these two women, it's been more than three years, |
| 0:57.5 | since I got an email from a woman telling me about a man named Curtis Flowers and their |
| 1:01.9 | relentless reporting. |
| 1:05.8 | Do Cal boys still exist? |
| 1:08.9 | We found generations of them ranching and riding in Utah. |
| 1:14.5 | The Wright family is the first family of American rodeo. |
| 1:18.4 | The world champions who can make the roughest ride look like a ballet. |
| 1:23.3 | Are you kind of dancing with a horse? |
| 1:25.9 | I like to think you are. |
| 1:27.5 | I dance a lot better with a horse than I do in my life. |
| 1:31.2 | I ain't got no rhythm. |
| 1:35.5 | A few artists are recognized by one name, but with Prince, you only needed a few notes. |
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