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Heroin in the Heartland | Smart Guns | The Slave Ship
TV Flash files “Heroin in the Heartland | Smart Guns | The Slave Ship” as hour 404 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 6, aired 2015-11-01, 60 min.
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This leaf is S48E06: listed hour 404 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 6 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2015-11-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Vice President Biden | The New Burma | Inside the Air War” (S48E05). Next is “Into Dangerous Hands | The Collider | Hamilton” (S48E07). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Federal and local authorities all over the country say it's the biggest drug epidemic today. Not methamphetamines or cocaine, but heroin. You might think of heroin as primarily an inner-city problem. But dealers, connected to Mexican drug cartels, are making huge profits by expanding to new, lucrative markets: suburbs all across the country. It's basic economics. The dealers are going where the money is and they're cultivating a new set of consumers: high school students, college athletes, teachers and professionals. Heroin is showing up everywhere -- in places like Columbus, Ohio . The area has long been viewed as so typically Middle American that, for years, many companies have gone there to test new products. We went to the Columbus suburbs to see how heroin is taking hold in the heartland.
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Where does Heroin in the Heartland | Smart Guns | The Slave Ship sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S48E06 is listed hour 404 of 767 — hour 6 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 6.
When did 60 Minutes S48E06 air?
Heroin in the Heartland | Smart Guns | The Slave Ship aired 2015-11-01 and is listed at 60 minutes.
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The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.
Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…
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- Morley Safer as Correspondent
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- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
Harry Reasoner was a 60 Minutes correspondent when the stopwatch became civic theater — Hewitt's newsmagazine power, Wallace ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes, Sunday night investigation that outrated sitcoms. Appointment…
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
Ed Bradley made 60 Minutes correspondent craft look like Sunday-night theater — Hewitt's stopwatch, investigative packages that outrated sitcoms, and a presence that treated the story as a public square. Appointment news before the…
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
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Also in season 48
- S48E01 Vladimir Putin | Donald Trump | The Greatest Escape
- S48E02 Hands off the Wheel | Patrick Kennedy | The Hidden Holocaust
- 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
- S48E07 Into Dangerous Hands | The Collider | Hamilton