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This Ancient Atrocity | Lithium Valley | James Nachtwey

TV Flash files “This Ancient Atrocity | Lithium Valley | James Nachtwey” as hour 671 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 55, episode 29, aired 2023-05-07, 60 min.

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This leaf is S55E29: listed hour 671 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 29 of 31 in season 55. It aired 2023-05-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Domino Effect | Out of Thin Air | An American Down Under” (S55E28). Next is “The Church's Fiirm | The Sperm Whales of Dominica | Yannick Nézet-Séguin” (S55E30). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — This Ancient Atrocity | Lithium Valley | James Nachtwey (S55E29)

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This Ancient Atrocity – A Nebraska middle school's concerns about the safety of its students led to one of the largest investigations into illegal child labor in this country. 60 MINUTES' Scott Pelley looks at the Department of Labor probe that uncovered how children as young as 13 worked overnight to clean slaughterhouses across the country for years. Lithium Valley – Automakers are transitioning away from gas-powered vehicles with new fleets of electric cars and trucks running on lithium batteries. Now, the race is on to develop domestic sources of lithium. 60 MINUTES' Bill Whitaker travels to a region by California's Salton Sea, where lithium extraction will be powered by clean energy. James Nachtwey – Anderson Cooper profiles one of the greatest war photographers of all time, James Nachtwey, who is now 75 and still risking his life to capture important images of suffering and sacrifice, heroism and beauty, in dark and dangerous places around the world. For the last 40 years, Nachtwey has photographed nearly every major conflict, including wars in Bosnia and Afghanistan, the genocide in Rwanda, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Where does This Ancient Atrocity | Lithium Valley | James Nachtwey sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S55E29 is listed hour 671 of 767 — hour 29 of 31 in season 55, season 55 episode 29.

When did 60 Minutes S55E29 air?

This Ancient Atrocity | Lithium Valley | James Nachtwey aired 2023-05-07 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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