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Relationships are the best antidote to trauma [times-gazette.com]

 

In 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated. Vietnam protests swept the country. McDonald’s introduced the Big Mac, selling for a whopping 49 cents. And in 1968, the television news magazine “60 Minutes” debuted. 

Over the ensuing 50 years, the metronomic stopwatch of “60 Minutes” has brought solid reporting and fascinating interviews into our living rooms, with only a few hiccups along the way. Its correspondents have talked with presidents and popes, shot pool with Jackie Gleason and sparred with an ailing Muhammed Ali and the hostage-holding Ayatollah Khomeini. 

“60 Minutes” has been influential in changing opinion across the country, while also offering a fleeting moment of fame to people of all types. Even with its reputation of going after the bad guys, still they came. When asked why crooks would be willing to go on “60 Minutes,” correspondent Morley Safer responded, “A crook doesn’t believe he’s made it as a crook until he’s been on ’60 Minutes.’” 

[For more on this story by JoAnn Shade, go to http://www.times-gazette.com/o...t-antidote-to-trauma]

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