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
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
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
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
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
Nature: Flowers of Oglala National Grasslands
“Sunday Morning” displays some true “flower power” at the Oglala National Grasslands in Nebraska. Videographer: Jamie McDonald. 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
Doctors confront a national epidemic of gun violence
More than 40 medical organizations have joined forces to address the 40,000 firearm-related deaths that occur each year – a public health epidemic, they say, that needs preventive medicine Source
Swimming with whales
The Indian Ocean is home to one of the most diverse whale populations in the world – as many as 18 species live there. And no one can get you closer to these hauntingly mysterious creatures than American wildlife photographer Patrick Dykstra. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti joined Dykstra as they went swimming with whales in the waters off Sri Lanka. Source