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The Front | Targeting Americans

TV Flash files “The Front | Targeting Americans” as hour 630 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 54, episode 19, aired 2022-02-20, 60 min.

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This leaf is S54E19: listed hour 630 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 19 of 31 in season 54. It aired 2022-02-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Death In Training | Breaking Point | Canada's Unmarked Graves” (S54E18). Next is “Headlines From Ukraine | The Grid | Wrongful Detainees | Headlines, Deadlines, Bottom Lines” (S54E20). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — The Front | Targeting Americans (S54E19)

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The Front – Lesley Stahl talks to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to discuss escalating tensions between his country and Russia and what is at stake for the Biden administration and NATO.  Targeting Americans – For the past six years, U.S. diplomats stationed in foreign countries have been reporting a series of neurological symptoms, now known as "Havana Syndrome." Scott Pelley reveals new reports of incidents on U.S. soil in a two-part story airing Sunday. High-ranking Homeland Security officials in the Trump administration say they were overcome with feelings of vertigo, confusion, and memory loss while on White House grounds and in their Washington, D.C.-area homes. The incidents and symptoms they describe are similar to the "Havana Syndrome" reported by American diplomats in foreign countries since 2016. The officials spoke to Pelley for Sunday's report. Other stories of officials being stricken were corroborated by former national security adviser John Bolton, who fears there is a threat to the highest levels of the U.S. government. New CIA director William Burns tells Pelley why it has been difficult finding answers.

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Where does The Front | Targeting Americans sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S54E19 is listed hour 630 of 767 — hour 19 of 31 in season 54, season 54 episode 19.

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The Front | Targeting Americans aired 2022-02-20 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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