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60 Minutes

Sunday, February 10, 2019

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A former bank robber is now a successful law professor. Here's Steve Kroft with a story of redemption. Sharyn Alfonsi reports from Franklin County, Mississippi - where a chess program is changing the lives of high school students - their parents - and the community. Scott Pelley shares the story of Lauren McGoughof -- a woman who hunts game -- with eagles. Those stories on tonight's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening, add free on One Dree Plus.

0:04.0

You're a professor at one of the finest law schools in the country.

0:15.0

Is that something that you thought you would be able to do?

0:19.0

No.

0:21.0

It makes me laugh hearing you say it out loud because there are days where it doesn't make sense to me and I've lived it.

0:29.0

Question one is...

0:31.0

Here's why.

0:33.0

Professor Sean Hupwood is a convicted felon who spent 11 years in federal prison and is a foolish, reckless, 21-year-old in Nebraska.

0:40.0

Listen to a friend with a really bad idea.

0:43.0

He said, what do you think about robbing a bank?

0:46.0

And most people would have laughed that off or said, maybe we need another beer or anything other than, that sounds like a great idea, which is what I ended up saying.

0:56.0

Until several summers ago, the ancient game of chess was still mostly a mystery to the folks of rural Franklin County, Mississippi.

1:07.0

What's this called?

1:08.0

So imagine everyone's surprise when a tall stranger arrived from Memphis to bring chess to the country.

1:14.0

I was like, what? Why would somebody come down here?

1:19.0

Two years later, a chess boom was underway in the unlikeliest of places.

1:25.0

And people said that country kids couldn't learn chess.

1:29.0

And they showed them wrong.

1:32.0

We part of them wrong.

1:36.0

In Mongolia, Hunter's partner with equals in a tradition that goes back thousands of years.

1:43.0

One of the best at this is Lauren McGow from of all places, Oklahoma City.

1:50.0

This is the most ancient form of falconry in the world.

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