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Crisis in Chicago | The Rum War | Passports for Sale

TV Flash files “Crisis in Chicago | The Rum War | Passports for Sale” as hour 450 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 49, episode 15, aired 2017-01-01, 60 min.

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This leaf is S49E15: listed hour 450 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 15 of 37 in season 49. It aired 2017-01-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Pope's Choir | Hamilton” (S49E14). Next is “The Coming Swarm | The Hostage Policy | The Hunt for Planet Nine,” (S49E16). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Crisis in Chicago - Chicago experienced more gun violence than New York and Los Angeles combined in 2016. Yet, a 60 Minutes investigation reveals a decline in police activity. Chicago ends 2016 with more than 700 murders and over 4,000 people shot – the worst bloodshed the city has seen in 18 years. Data obtained by 60 Minutes shows that while gun violence spiked, police activity dropped in all of Chicago's 25 police districts. The Rum War - It's a story 60 Minutes reports from Cuba, where a longtime feud has roots to the Cuban Revolution. Who makes the real Havana Club Rum? Who should own the right to sell the liquor under the famous Havana Club brand name? Two companies are currently selling rum under the same name and for years have been battling it out in court for the right to the legendary brand. It's a story Sharyn Alfonsi goes to report in Cuba, where the longtime feud traces its roots to the Cuban Revolution. Passports for Sale - Steve Kroft reports on how small cash-starved countries, such as the island nations of Antigua and Dominica, offer citizenship for a price, creating ways to ease travel for international citizens, including those running from the law.

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S49E15 is listed hour 450 of 767 — hour 15 of 37 in season 49, season 49 episode 15.

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Crisis in Chicago | The Rum War | Passports for Sale aired 2017-01-01 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.

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