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By The Numbers: Woodstock 1969

“Sunday Morning” takes account of one of the most heralded events of the 1960s: the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, where 400,000 showed up for “three days of peace and music.” Jane Pauley reports. Source

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Woodstock at 50: A return to “ground zero for peace and love”

In the summer of 1969 a festival promising “three days of peace and music” was announced in upstate New York. Four hundred thousand people showed up at what would become a monumental human event. Jim Axelrod talks to a few of those who were there, from musicians John Fogerty and Graham Nash, to a young couple, Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, who returned for the first time in 50 years to the site of the festival, where in 1969 a photograph of them captured a unique moment in music history. Source

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Angela Bassett on “Otherhood”

Actress Angela Bassett, who has played roles that are fierce, sultry and iconic, had an upbringing molded by two strong women. She talks with correspondent Michelle Miller about how her mother and her aunt helped shape her pursuit of an acting career. The busy mother of two also talks about her new Netflix film, “Otherhood,” in which she plays one of a trio of mothers trying to reconnect with their adult sons. Source

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Guns and public health

Last fall the NRA publicly demanded that doctors who comment on gun violence to “stay in their lane.” And doctors responded. More than 40 medical organizations have joined forces to confront the 40,000 firearm-related deaths that occur each year – a public health epidemic, they say, that can be addressed. Dr. Jon LaPook reports. Source

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Almanac: The silencing of the telephone

On August 4, 1922, at 6:25 p.m. ET, telephone service across the U.S. and Canada was shut down for one full minute in honor of the late Alexander Graham Bell. Jane Pauley reports. Source

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Mass shootings in Ohio, Texas

Gunfire at a restaurant in downtown Dayton early Sunday morning left 9 people dead and at least 16 injured, before police killed the gunman. The attack came just hours after a man opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, killing 20 people. Correspondent Janet Shamlian has the latest. Source

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