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An End in Sight | Justice Defenders | Built by Angels

TV Flash files “An End in Sight | Justice Defenders | Built by Angels” as hour 589 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 53, episode 14, aired 2020-12-20, 60 min.

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This leaf is S53E14: listed hour 589 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 14 of 36 in season 53. It aired 2020-12-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Saudi Fugitives | The High Cost of Healing | Excited Delirium” (S53E13). Next is “Section 230 | The Case Against Curtis Flowers | Notes of Grace” (S53E15). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — An End in Sight | Justice Defenders | Built by Angels (S53E14)

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The Pfizer senior vice president who led development of the company's COVID-19 vaccine says beating the virus became personal when she witnessed the death and economic disaster it wreaked near her home in New York City. Kathrin Jansen speaks in her first network television interview and allows 60 Minutes cameras into Pfizer's research labs to tell the story behind its collaboration with the German company BioNTech and how it led to the first emergency use authorization for a vaccine in the U.S. Jansen's interview. The criminal justice system in Kenya is underfunded, overcrowded and decrepit. Over 80% of the inmates have never been represented by a lawyer. As a result, many inmates in the teeming prisons are experiencing some degree of injustice. But some of those prisoners are now earning law degrees and becoming paralegals thanks to Justice Defenders, an organization providing legal education and counsel that often changes lives. Anderson Cooper reports from Kenya.

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Where does An End in Sight | Justice Defenders | Built by Angels sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S53E14 is listed hour 589 of 767 — hour 14 of 36 in season 53, season 53 episode 14.

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An End in Sight | Justice Defenders | Built by Angels aired 2020-12-20 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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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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