O’Rourke draws a direct link between the president’s divisive rhetoric and the apparent motives of the white man suspected of killing 20 people in El Paso Source
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29 people killed in two mass shootings in less than 14 hours
CBS News correspondent Janet Shamlian provides the latest on the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, and CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds reports from Cincinnati on his way to Dayton, Ohio, where another mass shooting happened overnight. Source
Open: This is “Face the Nation,” August 4
This week on “Face the Nation,” Major Garrett speaks with Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Sherrod Brown about the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas. Plus, in an exclusive, Rep. Will Hurd explains his decision to not seek reelection in the House of Representatives. Source
Transcript: Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke on “Face the Nation”
The following is a transcript of the interview with former Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas that aired Sunday, August 4, 2019, on “Face the Nation” Source
Bill Flanagan on the lessons of Woodstock
The three-day music festival held on a dairy farm in New York in August 1969 attended by 400,000 people wasn’t a summation of the counterculture movement in America in the 1960s, says contributor Bill Flanagan, but rather a harbinger of things to come. Source
Woodstock, Snoopy’s devoted bird friend
The Charles M. Schulz Museum, in Santa Rosa, Calif., is celebrating one of the most popular “Peanuts” characters with an exhibition devoted to Woodstock, the little “hippie bird” who became a valued friend of Snoopy’s. Luke Burbank talks with the comic strip artist’s widow, Jean Schulz, exhibition curator Benjamin Clark, and cartoonist Paige Braddock, about the important role Woodstock played in the Peanuts universe. Source
The art of Japanese tie dyeing
The craft of applying resist-dyeing techniques to fabrics, also known as tie dying, has been practiced in Japan for hundreds of years. Correspondent Lucy Craft reports from the town of Arimatsu, where merchant houses specializing in producing exquisite “shibori” dyed fabrics have stood for centuries. Source
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
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