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Bellingcat | Sharswood

TV Flash files “Bellingcat | Sharswood” as hour 641 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 54, episode 30, aired 2022-05-15, 60 min.

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This leaf is S54E30: listed hour 641 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 30 of 31 in season 54. It aired 2022-05-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Mark Esper | Crisis | Ballet in Exile” (S54E29). Next is “In Short Supply | Hope Chicago | Jonas Kaufmann” (S54E31). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Bellingcat | Sharswood (S54E30)

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Bellingcat – As reports of war crimes in Ukraine continue at the hands of the Russian military, 60 MINUTES goes inside Bellingcat, a team of online data detectives, and its investigations to look at how they build their cases. Scott Pelley speaks with founder Eliot Higgins about how his organization is building a database of social media exposing the alleged war crimes. Pelley reports that Bellingcat has trained more than 4,000 journalists and war crimes investigators in its techniques of geolocation, verification, and data mining.  Sharswood – 60 MINUTES' Lesley Stahl visits Fred Miller and his family in the large house in southern Virginia that they recently bought to host family gatherings, only to discover that their own ancestors had once been enslaved on that very property. Miller's sister and cousins scoured historical records and enlisted a genealogist to find evidence that their great-great-grandparents, Violet and David Miller, were enslaved on the plantation, then-called Sharswood. The dilapidated building still standing behind the main house has been identified by archeologists as living quarters for some of the enslaved men and women there. Buying this home has opened a window into the Miller family's past that was not discussed within their family, and that many African American families struggle to obtain. This is a double-length segment.

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Where does Bellingcat | Sharswood sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S54E30 is listed hour 641 of 767 — hour 30 of 31 in season 54, season 54 episode 30.

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Bellingcat | Sharswood aired 2022-05-15 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Is 1980s 60 Minutes different from today's?

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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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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