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Hands off the Wheel | Patrick Kennedy | The Hidden Holocaust
TV Flash files “Hands off the Wheel | Patrick Kennedy | The Hidden Holocaust” as hour 400 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 2, aired 2015-10-04, 60 min.
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This leaf is S48E02: listed hour 400 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 2 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2015-10-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Vladimir Putin | Donald Trump | The Greatest Escape” (S48E01). Next is “President Obama | 30 Years on Death Row” (S48E03). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Hands off the Wheel: Self-driving cars may sound like science fiction but they're already hitting the road for research as carmakers and tech companies race to develop the potentially life-saving technology. Bill Whitaker goes to Silicon Valley to take a ride and take stock of the emerging industry and two of its leaders, Google and Mercedes-Ben. Patrick Kennedy: A Kennedy son breaks the silence about his and his family's alcoholism in an effort to help others overcome their own addictions. Lesley Stahl reports. The Hidden Holocaust: They lie in unmarked mass graves throughout the former Soviet Union, forgotten victims of the Holocaust whose stories haven't been told. Father Patrick Desbois is determined to find them for history and for humanity. The French Catholic priest takes Lara Logan to some of the sites his work has discovered.
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Where does Hands off the Wheel | Patrick Kennedy | The Hidden Holocaust sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S48E02 is listed hour 400 of 767 — hour 2 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 2.
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Hands off the Wheel | Patrick Kennedy | The Hidden Holocaust aired 2015-10-04 and is listed at 60 minutes.
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Also in season 48
- S48E01 Vladimir Putin | Donald Trump | The Greatest Escape
- S48E03 President Obama | 30 Years on Death Row
- S48E04 Seeking Asylum | Make-A-Wish | Revis Island
- S48E05 Vice President Biden | The New Burma | Inside the Air War
- S48E06 Heroin in the Heartland | Smart Guns | The Slave Ship
- S48E07 Into Dangerous Hands | The Collider | Hamilton