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From Alabama to Wisconsin, a look back at past 60 Minutes stories on racial injustice and policing as told on our broadcast in five different decades.

In 2002, Ed Bradley profiled Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. This week 60 Minutes speaks with Viola Davis about her role in the film "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," which is based on the play by Wilson.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon. 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley was there to listen while Armstrong recounted his thoughts and feelings from the day he launched into space. While taking in the view of the beach below, Bradley asked Armstrong if he had fears of becoming stranded on the moon. Nearly fifty years later, NASA is planning to launch a new moon program. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Boeing's Space Launch System are both on board for the ride and will be providing significant assistance to NASA.

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FILE - "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl poses for a photo in her office at the "60 Minutes" offices, in New York on Sept. 12, 2017. It's not the first time that's been said about “60 Minutes” since its 1968 debut. After executive producer Bill Owens turned the show primarily over to COVID-19 coverage last spring, “60 Minutes” has returned to its traditional format while being focused on being timely. “60 Minutes” this fall has featured interviews with fired government cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs, former President Barack Obama and poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Original executive producer Don Hewitt often ran “60 Minutes” as an island unto itself.

60 Minutes archives: The Most Feared Gangster From 1999: After his government-informant deal fell through, mob boss Anthony Casso, who admitted to participating in the murders of 36 people, told Ed Bradley he was the one cheated.

Ed Bradley said in 2002 about August Wilson, "He's one of the most acclaimed playwrights of our time, as well as one of the most popular. This week on 60 Minutes, Viola Davis speaks with Jon Wertheim about playing the title role in the Netflix film adaptation of Wilson's play, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Bradley reported that the play established Wilson as a major new voice in the American theater. She was dying at the time, but she came--she came and saw the play," Wilson told Bradley. You can see Bradley's interview with Wilson above and see Wertheim's interview with Davis, Sunday night.

NEW YORK – Four years ago when he first moderated a general election presidential debate, Chris Wallace was firm and funny in trying to get Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to stop talking simultaneously. Wallace declined an interview request through Fox but his work offers clues about how he will approach the assignment. Trump has tweeted, more than once, that Chris will “never be his father.”Mike Wallace, it should be noted, never moderated a presidential debate. During interviews with Trump this summer, Wallace and Jonathan Swan of Axios proved particularly adept at challenging presidential misstatements. “I do not believe it is my job to be a truth squad,” Wallace told a Fox News colleague before the 2016 debate.

2004: The Murder of Emmett Till In 2004, 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley reported on the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

Small, who led CBS News' Washington coverage during the civil rights movement, Vietnam War and Watergate and was later president of NBC News and United Press International, died Sunday, CBS News said. Impressed by Small's work in Louisville, CBS executives hired him in 1962 to be assistant news director of the network's Washington bureau. Small didn't leave the bureau for four days, from the shooting to the burial, he told The Associated Press in 2013. Small defected to NBC in 1979, becoming president of the network's news division and hiring away several CBS reporters, including Mudd and Marvin Kalb. In 2014, the organization honored Small with its lifetime achievement award.

In the summer of 1992, the United States sent 11 future members of the NBA Hall of Fame to represent the nation at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. A month earlier, the reigning back-to-back NBA Most Valuable Player had led the Chicago Bulls to their second consecutive championship. As a member of the 1992 Olympic "Dream Team," Jordan was coached by Chuck Daly, who also manned the bench for the Detroit Pistons. Daly's Pistons eliminated Jordan's Chicago Bulls from the NBA playoffs three straight times from 1988 to 1990. In this never-before-seen footage, Bradley asked both player and coach about a game of golf at the 1992 Olympics.

At 9:02 in the morning, on Wednesday April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City was bombed by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more. In 2001, the late Ed Bradley accompanied survivors and family members of victims to the Oklahoma City National Memorial. A once chaotic and devastating scene had been transformed into a memorial to the victims, families, and survivors of the bombing. The previous year, in March of 2000, Bradley conducted the only televised interview with Timothy McVeigh at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. At the time of the interview, McVeigh was on death row, awaiting his execution.

From the 60 Minutes archives: The true story behind “Just Mercy” In 1992, Ed Bradley reported that the wrong man might have been sitting on Alabama’s death row. "Just Mercy," a movie about the case, opens in theaters this week

In November 1992, an Alabama man who had been on death row for almost six years told 60 Minutes the state was preparing to execute the wrong person. Convicted of robbing and murdering the clerk of a dry cleaning shop in Monroeville, Walter McMillian told correspondent Ed Bradley he have never even been to the Alabama town. That one person had lied on the stand, which Stevenson proved to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals in the months after the 60 Minutes report aired. The court overturned the conviction, and on March 2, 1993, Johnny D. left the courtroom as a free man. Michael B. Jordan plays the idealistic defense attorney, and Jamie Foxx plays Johnny D. The film opens in theaters nationwide on Friday.

From the "60 Minutes" archives: Tiger Woods In 2006 when Ed Bradley asked how long he would play competitively, Tiger answered: "When my best isn't good enough to win anymore."

Steve Kroft, Scott Pelley, Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and more look back at 50 seasons of 60 Minutes

The Island In his emotional debut on 60 Minutes, Ed Bradley walks straight into the waters off Malaysia to help the "boat people," an exodus of Vietnamese refugees, as they stagger onto the beach of a Pulau Bidong, a remote island where thousands of desperate families are stranded.

No athlete has had as great of an impact outside his sport than Muhammad Ali; In 1996, Ed Bradley interviewed Muhammad Ali for "60 Minutes."

During a long, late-night ride on B.B. King's tour bus, correspondent Ed Bradley and the legendary blues man pass the time with conversation about life, death, and, of course, the blues. Parts of this footage, filmed in 1993, has never been aired.

"There were desperate scenes of families separated and crying out for help, pleading not to be left behind," reported former CBS News correspondent Ed Bradley, as the city of Saigon was evacuated ahead of its fall on April 30, 1975. Bradley's intrepid reporting, detailing the dramatic events of the day the Vietnam War ended, originally aired on the "CBS Evening News."

The broken promises to the victims of Bhopal On the anniversary of the world's worst industrial accident, watch Ed Bradley's 60 Minutes report from 1987 on Bhopal's aftermath.

60 Minutes Overtime 03.16.14 Jon Stewart talks with 60 Minutes about Bassem Youssef, a comedian in Cairo whose TV show has landed him in trouble with the Egyptian government; then, Sanjay Gupta travels "back in time" to the Tabasco company's private island in the bayous of Louisiana; and, In 1992, Anita Hill told Ed Bradley why she brought a sexual harassment charge against Clarence Thomas.

Bum Hunting Ed Bradley's 2006 report on a perverse national trend known as "bum hunting," in which packs of teenagers stalk, attack, even shoot homeless people.

Top Cop In 2003, Ed Bradley interviews New York City's "top cop" Bill Bratton, who was squeezed out in the 1990s by then-mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Couches Andy Rooney takes you behind the scenes of 60 Minutes to peer into the offices of Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley, Lesley Stahl and Morley Safer.

Denzel In Ed Bradley's 60 Minutes profile of Denzel Washington, the actor explains why he's taking time off from his multi-million dollar film career to pursue Broadway.

Second Chance Ed Bradley interviews 77-year-old Sen. John Glenn, who in 1962 became the first astronaut to orbit the earth, as he prepares to lift off again on the space shuttle Discovery.

The Most Feared Gangster After his government-informant deal fell through, mob boss Anthony Casso, who admitted to participating in the murders of 36 people, tells Ed Bradley he was the one cheated.

Brother Against Brother Ed Bradley reports from Gaza in 1997 and speaks with Palestinians who say their lives have worsened since Yasir Arafat's return. Instead of a democratic state, they say Arafat has cracked down on them.

Madam Secretary Several weeks after Madeleine Albright became America's first female Secretary of State, Ed Bradley dropped by her office to find Albright still pinching herself.

HIV Positive After testing positive for HIV, Charlene Riling told Ed Bradley, she lost her health, her job, and nearly her life. Four years later, new tests reveal there was a medical snafu and she did not actually have HIV.

This House is a Steal Ed Bradley sits down with homeowners whose dream of retiring in the Florida sunshine was squashed when they realized they'd been swindled out of thousands of dollars.

The Preppie Connection Ed Bradley's 1984 report on the sale of cocaine at Choate, a prestigious New England prep school.