This week on "Sunday Morning" (July 2)
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COVER STORY: Helping endangered sea turtles, by air | Watch Video
Because of changing ocean temperatures, hundreds of sea turtles have been washing up almost dead onto New England beaches. And while local aquariums have been successful at nursing the majority of them back to health, they don't have room to care for all of them. That's where the volunteer pilots of the not-for-profit Turtles Fly Too have come to the rescue. Correspondent Lee Cowan reports on how these creatures, including the endangered Kemp's Ridley turtles, are being given a second chance.
For more info:
- Turtles Fly Too
- Massachusetts Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Wellfleet, Mass.
- New England Aquarium, Boston
- Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery, Padre Island National Seashore, Texas (National Park Service)
- Texas Sealife Center, Corpus Christi, Texas
ALMANAC: July 2 (Video)
"Sunday Morning" looks at important historical events on this date.
JOURNALISM: Extra! New strategies for survival by South Carolina newspapers | Watch Video
In South Carolina in 2020, ten local newspapers folded their print editions, and those that remain are often shoestring operations. But some papers are bucking the trend, either by hiring staff, or collaborating with other papers to expand their coverage and investigate corruption in local governments. And readers are supporting them for providing news they can't get anywhere else. "Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel looks at how journalists are maintaining small-town papers at a time when industry trends are pessimistic.
For more info:
- The Post and Courier
- The Uncovered Project
- The News and Reporter
- The Voice of Blythewood
- Report: "The State of Local News 2022" (Northwestern/Medill)
- Thanks to the Charleston Library Society
AMUSEMENTS: The history of Ferris wheels: What goes around comes around | Watch Video
In 1893 up-and-coming engineer George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. created an attraction for the world's fair in Chicago: A giant, steam-powered wheel on which passengers could gently ride to a height of 250 feet for a spectacular view. These days, Ferris Wheels (or observation wheels) are all the rage. Correspondent Roxana Saberi spins the story of their origins, and takes a ride on some of the most notable Ferris wheels around.
GALLERY: Early photos of amusement parks
For more info:
- Deno's Wonder Wheel, Coney Island, N.Y.
- Dream Wheel, East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Centennial Wheel, Chicago
- Chicago History Museum
- "Stop That Yawn" by Caron Levis, illustrated by LeUyen Pham (Atheneum Books for Young Readers), in Hardcover and eBook formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
SUNDAY PROFILE: Tom Bodett crafts his third act | Watch Video
He was young when he almost died, in an accident involving an electric utility cable and a considerable height. But Tom Bodett, by his accounts, went on to become a pretty good writer (of more than a dozen books and audiobooks), an NPR essayist, and Motel 6 spokesman. And now, at 68, Bodett has found another calling, as a woodworker. He talks with correspondent Faith Salie about crafting a new life in Brattleboro, Vermont.
ESSAY: "Life at the Workhouse" by Tom Bodett
The writer and radio essayist prefers spending time in his shop, and says the true goal of any woodworking project is: Leave with the same number of fingers you started with.
For more info:
- bodett.com
- HatchSpace, Brattleboro, Vt.
PASSAGE: Remembering Alan Arkin (Video)
Jane Pauley looks back on the career of Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin, who died Thursday at age 89.
SUNDAY JOURNAL: An unprecedented week at the Supreme Court | Watch Video
The Supreme Court has issued its ruling on the future of affirmative action, followed by Friday rulings that block President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, and allow a Colorado website designer to refuse service to same-sex couples, based on her religious convictions. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa has the details about the decisions, and their fallout.
For more info:
- Adam Harris, The Atlantic
MUSIC: Remembering Louis Armstrong | Watch Video
Through his style and musicianship, Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) became a worldwide icon of jazz, as well as an innovative interpreter of popular music. Correspondent Kelefa Sanneh tours the new Louis Armstrong Center in Queens, where the legacy of the beloved jazz musician is explored. He also talks with jazz pianist Jason Moran, curator of a new exhibition on Armstrong; and filmmaker Sacha Jenkins, director of the documentary "Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues."
For more info:
- Louis Armstrong Center, Queens, N.Y. (opens July 6)
- Louis Armstrong House Museum, Queens, N.Y.
- Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation
- "Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues" is available on Apple TV+
- Watch a trailer here:
HARTMAN: A trumpet call against Alzheimer's (Video)
About three years ago Larry Kingsley's wife, Georgeanne, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Using music to stay connected with her, the North Carolina man dug out his old trumpet and began playing for strangers on the street, with Georgeanne at his side. Every dollar he collected was donated to Alzheimer's research. Correspondent Steve Hartman reports on how one man's love prompted him to make a difference.
ART: Ansel Adams: Capturing the majesty of nature | Watch Video
Photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984) created unparalleled images of the American West at a time when photography was not universally appreciated as a fine art. Today Adams is the most recognizable name in nature photography, and his landscapes have been acclaimed for their soulfulness. Correspondent Conor Knighton visits an exhibition on the artist's work, "Ansel Adams: In Our Time," currently on view at the de Young Museum in San Francisco; and visits Adams' home in Carmel, Calif., where his dark room has been preserved by his son, Michael Adams.
For more info:
- The exhibition "Ansel Adams: In Our Time" was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in partnership with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; it is currently on display at the de Young Museum, San Francisco (through July 23)
- The Ansel Adams Gallery
COMMENTARY: Celebrating America's other Independence Day: July 2 | Watch Video
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act, which ended our nation's apartheid system. Mark Updegrove, president & CEO of the LBJ Foundation, looks back on a watershed moment in American democracy when segregation was finally made illegal.
For more info:
- LBJ Foundation
- LBJ Presidential Library
- CBS News coverage: The Long March For Civil Rights
NATURE: John Muir Wilderness (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday amidst the solitude of the John Muir Wilderness in California. Videographer: Scot Miller.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Photographer Ansel Adams (YouTube Video)
In this "Sunday Morning" interview originally broadcast September 9, 1979, CBS News correspondent Ed Bradley talked with acclaimed photographer Ansel Adams, then the subject of a major touring exhibition of his spectacular landscape images. Bradley also visited the darkroom at Adams' Pacific Coast home in California, where the perfectionist judges and rejects prints made from his negatives. Bradley also talked with the Museum of Modern Art's curator of photography John Szarkowski about Adams' distinctive eye.
NATURE: The American West - Extended cut (YouTube Video)
Sit back and enjoy expansive views of the American West, from the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona to the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast, courtesy of our "Sunday Morning" videographers.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Alan Arkin on "Little Miss Sunshine" (Video)
Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin, who won acclaim for performances both comedic and heartfelt, died on Friday, June 30 at the age of 89. In this profile that aired on "CBS Sunday Morning" February 11, 2007, the character actor talked with correspondent Jerry Bowen about his start in music; how joining the Second City improv comedy group "saved" his life; and about the Sundance hit "Little Miss Sunshine," for which Arkin would win the Oscar that year for best supporting actor.
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David Morgan
David Morgan is a senior editor at CBSNews.com and cbssundaymorning.com.
