7/26/2015: "The Gaskos", Wikimania, Star-Struck
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
FBI agents tell Steve Kroft about their 16-year search and eventual capture of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger; then, Morley Safer meets the Wikipedians; and, Charlie Rose profiles astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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| 0:32.6 | That's the apartment. That corner on a third floor. |
| 0:35.6 | The apartment belonged to Boston mobster and long-time |
| 0:38.6 | fugitive Whitey Bulger, then the most wanted man in America. Bulger alluded the FBI for 14 years |
| 0:45.5 | by hiding in plain sight in Santa Monica, California. Tonight, you'll hear from the agents who |
| 0:50.9 | finally caught him with some help from an alley cat and his girlfriend's |
| 0:54.9 | breast implants. We just rushed him. He mean he guns out, FBI, don't move. I asked him to |
| 1:00.7 | identify himself, and that didn't go over well. He asked me to effing identify myself. And I asked him |
| 1:06.5 | and I said, are you Whitey Bulger? He said yes. |
| 1:11.2 | Over 200 times a second, half a billion times a month, |
| 1:15.8 | somebody clicks on Wikipedia. |
| 1:18.6 | It's the greatest argument settler wrought by man, |
| 1:21.9 | or at least the fastest, perfectly suited |
| 1:24.9 | to our era of instant gratification. |
| 1:28.0 | You created one of the most successful websites in the world, |
| 1:32.8 | and yet you chose to make it the least profitable. |
| 1:37.2 | It just felt right that we should be a charity, free knowledge for everyone. |
| 1:41.4 | So that's always been our philosophy. |
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