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All episodes Season 48 S48E32 2016-05-08 60 min 1980s CBS

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Russia's Dark Secret | The Killing Machine | Earthquake Alley

TV Flash files “Russia's Dark Secret | The Killing Machine | Earthquake Alley” as hour 430 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 32, aired 2016-05-08, 60 min.

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This leaf is S48E32: listed hour 430 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 32 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2016-05-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Strike-through | Fintech | The Children's Village” (S48E31). Next is “Breakthrough Status | Collateral Damage” (S48E33). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Russia's Dark Secret | The Killing Machine | Earthquake Alley (S48E32)

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A Russian whistleblower has information that at least four of Russia's gold medal winners at the Sochi Winter Olympics were on steroids. Vitaly Stepanov reveals this in an interview with Armen Keteyian. ISIS has become an efficient "killing machine" run in a scientific way much like Hitler ran his Holocaust against the Jews, says a priest who would know. Fr. Patrick Desbois has been uncovering hidden sites of the Holocaust for years and points out the similarities he finds in the ethnic cleansing ISIS has undertaken against the Yezidi's in Iraqi Kurdistan. Lara Logan and 60 MINUTES cameras accompany the French Catholic priest on a recent mission to expose a genocide that has taken the lives of at least 5,000 Yezidi. Oklahomans are getting tired of the ground shaking under their feet. Last year the state set a record for earthquakes, with 907 registering a magnitude of 3 or more. It's causing anxiety, damage and residents to rethink one of the state's biggest industries– oil and gas production– which scientists say is causing nearly all the quakes. Bill Whitaker goes to Oklahoma, now the capital of earthquake activity in the continental U.S., to report the story.

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Where does Russia's Dark Secret | The Killing Machine | Earthquake Alley sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S48E32 is listed hour 430 of 767 — hour 32 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 32.

When did 60 Minutes S48E32 air?

Russia's Dark Secret | The Killing Machine | Earthquake Alley aired 2016-05-08 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Is 1980s 60 Minutes different from today's?

The grammar is the same: multi-segment hour, stopwatch motif, investigations plus profiles. In the 1980s it frequently outrated sitcoms — proof news could dominate prime time.

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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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