“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
Bill Flanagan on Woodstock: Sign of the times
The monumental music festival held 50 years ago, attended by 400,000 people, wasn’t a summation of the counterculture movement in the 1960s, but rather a harbinger of ’70s commercialism Source
How the Peanuts character Woodstock got his name
The Charles M. Schulz Museum, in Santa Rosa, Calif., is celebrating one of the comic strip’s most popular characters: the little “hippie bird” who became a devoted friend of Snoopy’s Source
By The Numbers: Woodstock
A look back at the landmark 1969 music festival held in Bethel, N.Y. Source
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
Woodstock at 50, in the words, and music, of those who were there
A half-century after a mass of humanity converged on a farm in Bethel, N.Y. for three days of peace and music, musicians and concert-goers recall a unique moment for their generation Source
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
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
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