60 Minutes
Evidence of Injustice/The Youngest Terrorist/Calorie Counting
Season 40, Episode 9 · Aired 2007-11-18
Synopsis
"Evidence of Injustice" examines how flawed science was used in hundreds of prosecutions and may have sent dozens of innocent people to jail. "The Youngest Terrorist" looks at the case of Omar Khadr who was captured in combat and sent to Guantanamo despite being only 15 years-old. "Calorie Counting" looks at how health officials want to force fast food restaurants to reveal the calories count of their food. "Andy Rooney" talks about the network's list of holidays.
In the series
This episode is part of 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS.
Tick-tick-tick — Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms.
Key cast
- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Also in season 40
- S40E01 President Ahmadinejad | Pot Shops | The Match of His Life
- S40E02 The Justice Nobody Knows/What Killed Rebecca Riley?/Invincible
- S40E03 The Man from Interpol/Roots/Springsteen/The Bird Man of Idaho
- S40E04 Blackwater/A Clean Version of Hell/Joel Osteen/Dubai Inc.
- S40E05 The Age of Megafires/Life Saver/No Ordinary Spy
- S40E06 Bombing Afghanistan/What's Wrong with the Bees?/Sarko L'Americain