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President Trump | Photo Ark

TV Flash files “President Trump | Photo Ark” as hour 512 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 51, episode 3, aired 2018-10-14, 60 min.

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This leaf is S51E03: listed hour 512 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 3 of 30 in season 51. It aired 2018-10-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Kavanaugh Vote | John Green | The Pavarotti of Pasta” (S51E02). Next is “Genetic Genealogy | Off the Rails | Fly Like an Eagle” (S51E04). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — President Trump | Photo Ark (S51E03)

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President Trump: Lesley Stahl speaks with President Trump about a wide range of topics in his first 60 Minutes interview since taking office. Photo Ark: Joel Sartore, an acclaimed "National Geographic" photographer, is photographing every species of every animal kept in captivity saving memories of them in The Photo Ark.

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S51E03 is listed hour 512 of 767 — hour 3 of 30 in season 51, season 51 episode 3.

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President Trump | Photo Ark aired 2018-10-14 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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