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“Sunday Morning” Full Episode 8/4

This week “Sunday Morning” hosted by Jane Pauley features Dr. Jon LaPook’s cover story on efforts by doctors to confront gun violence. Plus: Special reports marking the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in Bethel, N.Y., including Jim Axelrod’s interview with musicians and concertgoers who were there, and a commentary by Bill Flanagan; Michelle Miller interviews actress Angela Bassett, star of the Netflix comedy “Otherhood”; Lucy Craft visits a Japanese town where for centuries artisans have practiced the craft of “shibori,” or tie-dyeing; and Jonathan Vigliotti goes swimming with whales off the coast of Sri Lanka. Source

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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