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Finding Refuge | The Brothers Rosenberg

TV Flash files “Finding Refuge | The Brothers Rosenberg” as hour 439 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 49, episode 4, aired 2016-10-16, 60 min.

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This leaf is S49E04: listed hour 439 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 4 of 37 in season 49. It aired 2016-10-16 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Breaking Good | Artificial Intelligence | Gorilla Doctors” (S49E03). Next is “Ask Ohio | Thrown for a Loss | The Influncers” (S49E05). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Finding Refuge - Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson says "thorough" refugee vetting process has been augmented with social media searches. The Brothers Rosenberg - The sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg tell Anderson Cooper what it was like to be the children of infamous Communist spies during the McCarthy era, in a story that sheds new light on one of the most dramatic espionage cases of the Cold War -- the execution of a husband and wife, leaving their two little boys orphans.

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Where does Finding Refuge | The Brothers Rosenberg sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S49E04 is listed hour 439 of 767 — hour 4 of 37 in season 49, season 49 episode 4.

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Finding Refuge | The Brothers Rosenberg aired 2016-10-16 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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