60 Minutes
This Ancient Atrocity | Lithium Valley | James Nachtwey
Season 55, Episode 29 · Aired 2023-05-07
Synopsis
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.
In the series
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Key cast
- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Also in season 55
- S55E01 President Biden | Ebrahim Raisi
- S55E02 Secretary of State Blinken | Inside the Committee | Rescuing Reefs
- S55E03 Olena Zelenska | What Happened at Grizzly Flats | Captain Kolisi
- S55E04 Taiwan | After Ian | Church and State
- S55E05 The Lost Souls Of Bucha | The Power Of Grimsby | Coach Prime
- S55E06 Dominion | American Prairie | Ina Garten