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All episodes Season 48 S48E30 2016-04-24 60 min 1980s CBS

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The Heroin Epidemic | Dialing for Dollars | Gold Star Parents

TV Flash files “The Heroin Epidemic | Dialing for Dollars | Gold Star Parents” as hour 428 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 30, aired 2016-04-24, 60 min.

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This leaf is S48E30: listed hour 428 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 30 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2016-04-24 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Not Paid | Hacking Your Phone” (S48E29). Next is “Strike-through | Fintech | The Children's Village” (S48E31). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — The Heroin Epidemic | Dialing for Dollars | Gold Star Parents (S48E30)

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The Heroin Epidemic - Ohio's attorney general says arresting drug addicts is not going to solve the heroin epidemic in his state. Attorney General Mike DeWine is hoping the use of drug courts can help reduce the drug addiction that's taking the lives of 23 Ohioans each week. Dialing for Dollars - Rep. David Jolly says he was told his first job as a newly elected congressman was to raise $18,000 a day so he could get reelected. On Sunday's 60 Minutes, the Florida Republican calls the daily phone calls he and other members of Congress feel pressed to make to donors a "shameful" distraction from work they should be doing for the people who elected them. Gold Star Parents - The parents of military members who gave their lives in the wars since 9/11 are finding solace in an old San Francisco hotel at a unique event held annually. The Marine's Memorial Hotel and Club was transformed into a living memorial after WWII. Once a year, "Blue Star" mothers -- whose children served in the military -- invite "Gold Star" parents -- whose children died while serving in the military -- to a commemorative gathering. Mike Anderson has attended all eleven.

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Where does The Heroin Epidemic | Dialing for Dollars | Gold Star Parents sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S48E30 is listed hour 428 of 767 — hour 30 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 30.

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The Heroin Epidemic | Dialing for Dollars | Gold Star Parents aired 2016-04-24 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

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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