This week on “Sunday Morning” (May 25)

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Hosted by Jane Pauley

       
COVER STORY: Remembering Julie Moore, the civilian who helped change navy protocol
Up to now, the U.S. navy knowledgeable households in regards to the deaths of service members with a telegram. Julie Moore, whose husband served through the Vietnam Warfare, led different Military wives to foyer for a extra dignified manner of informing subsequent of kin about casualties. Immediately, service members notify households in particular person, and provide further assist. Correspondent Elaine Quijano talks with the kids of Moore, the civilian partner who helped remake Military tradition.

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ALMANAC: Could 25
“Sunday Morning” seems to be again at historic occasions on this date.

     
WORLD: Steve Rosenberg, the BBC’s “Man in Moscow”
Journalist Steve Rosenberg is now the final of the BBC’s correspondents left in Russia, doing his greatest to report on Vladimir Putin’s struggle in Ukraine amid a sea of Kremlin propaganda. He talks with CBS Information correspondent Elizabeth Palmer in regards to the stress of reporting inside Russia; how he sees the way forward for a rustic he fell in love with a few years in the past; and the time he performed piano with former Soviet chief Mikhail Gorbachev. 

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ARTS: Meals as artwork that is adequate to eat
Within the newest problem of Bon Appétit, the venerable meals and entertaining journal is making an attempt one thing new: recipes designed to mimic notable artistic endeavors. “Sunday Morning” host Jane Pauley samples a menu impressed by the works of such artists as Helen Frankenthaler, Judy Chicago, and Wayne Thiebaud.

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BOOKS: Anne Tyler on a author’s “egocentric motive” to discover different lives
Anne Tyler’s bestselling novels – tales of lives shattered and mended by love – have damaged the hearts of numerous readers. In her newest, “Three Days in June,” Tyler particulars a weekend within the lifetime of a divorced faculty administrator, bookended by the lack of her job and her daughter’s wedding ceremony. “Sunday Morning” nationwide correspondent Robert Costa talks with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author about discovering inspiration within the lives of “humdrum” characters, and what it means to her to create “an especially plausible lie.”

READ AN EXCERPT: “Three Days in June” by Anne Tyler

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THE BOOK REPORT: Ron Charles on new summer season reads
The Washington Put up ebook reviewer presents highlights from the season’s fiction and non-fiction releases.

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PASSAGE: In memoriam
“Sunday Morning” remembers among the notable figures who left us this week, together with actor George Wendt, who earned six Emmy nominations for taking part in Norm Peterson on the basic sitcom “Cheers.” 

BUSINESS: Delta Air Strains’ one centesimal 12 months takes flight
In 1925, what would develop into Delta Air Strains began because the world’s first aerial crop-dusting operation within the Mississippi Delta area. Almost a century after its first passenger flight, the airline has survived mergers, recessions and chapter, rising from a single passenger path to a world provider with greater than 5,000 flights a day. Correspondent Kris Van Cleave talks with Delta’s CEO Ed Bastian in regards to the airline’s future amid worries in regards to the economic system and aviation security; visits the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta; and attends a “storage sale” the place the airline’s followers should purchase items of aviation historical past.

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HARTMAN: A septuagenarian faculty graduate pays tribute
A number of years in the past, Linwood Riddick, of Summerville, S.C., lately discovered of the 1968 “Orangeburg Bloodbath” protest at South Carolina State College, throughout which three Black college students have been killed. The Vietnam Warfare veteran and retired store proprietor felt compelled to honor their sacrifice by graduating from the HBCU – on the age of 79. Steve Hartman experiences.

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MUSIC: Music producer David Foster on “Boop!,” Barbra, and ballads
For the previous fifty years, David Foster produced a few of music’s most iconic artists, and received 16 Grammy Awards alongside the best way. However the hit-maker’s newest venture is the Tony-nominated “Boop! The Musical,” for which Foster wrote about fifty songs. He talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about discovering such distinctive abilities as Celine Dion and Michael Bublé; working with such demanding artists as Barbra Streisand and the rock group Chicago; and what he actually thinks about legacy.

You possibly can stream alternatives from the Broadway forged recording of “Boop! The Musical” by clicking on the embed under (Free Spotify registration required to listen to the tracks in full):

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PREVIEW: Summer season music
      

PREVIEW: Summer season motion pictures
     

ARTS: The trailblazing cartoon artwork of Barbara Shermund
Artist Barbara Shermund (1899- 1978) was one of many first ladies cartoonists for The New Yorker and different main magazines, from the Twenties into the ’60s. However she died with barely a hint – and her fame lay dormant, till a distant relative and a cartoon historian teamed as much as join the dots of Shermund’s life and work. Correspondent Religion Salie talks with investigator Amanda Gormley and curator Caitlin McGurk (creator of “Inform Me a Story The place the Dangerous Woman Wins: The Life and Artwork of Barbara Shermund”) about resurrecting a trailblazing humorist and her scintillating takes on intercourse, marriage and society.

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PREVIEW: Summer season arts
“Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley previews among the most intriguing new artwork displays across the nation this summer season. 

      
COMMENTARY: Well being professional calls Trump’s medical analysis cuts “reckless destruction”
Dr. Timothy Johnson, longtime community TV medical reporter and founding editor of the Harvard Medical Faculty Well being Letter, says that by slicing greater than $1.8 billion in grants from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, the Trump administration dangers destroying U.S. medical analysis infrastructure and prompting a “mind drain” of scientists to different nations.

      
NATURE: Poppies in California
      

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: The digicam of Sebastião Salgado (Video)
Acclaimed Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, whose hanging black-and-white photographs captured the toil and dignity of individuals’s labors in gold mines, oil fields, factories and farms world wide, whereas additionally documenting environmental despoliation, died on Could 23, 2025 at age 81. On this March 26, 1995 “Sunday Morning” report, Salgado spoke with correspondent Richard Threlkeld about capturing the humanity of employees, in an age when machines have been making some bodily labor out of date.

WEB EXTRA: “Survivor” winner Kyle Fraser’s pre-game interview (YouTube Video)
Previous to the beginning of Season 48 of “Survivor,” correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti spoke with contestant Kyle Fraser, an legal professional from Brooklyn, about his street to Fiji; his technique going into the favored actuality TV competitors; and the way he offered himself to his fellow gamers. [In the end, Fraser was voted the million-dollar-winner of “Survivor.”] 

EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Christian Bale (Video)
On this net unique, actor Christian Bale talks with correspondent Tracy Smith in regards to the genesis of the group he co-founded: Collectively California: A Village for Brothers and Sisters, a Palmdale, Calif.-based dwelling for foster youngsters devoted to making a secure atmosphere for youths in danger by holding foster siblings collectively.

MOVIES: The historical past of the blockbuster film (YouTube Video)

It has been assumed that the Hollywood summer season blockbuster was born with the 1975 launch of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws,” adopted two years later by “Star Wars.” However the movie trade’s want for field workplace blockbusters existed lengthy earlier than a shark prowled the waters off Amity. Turner Basic Films host Ben Mankiewicz talks with actor Stephen Lang (star of the “Avatar” movies), critic Dana Stevens, and Charles Acland, creator of “American Blockbuster,” in regards to the origin of blockbuster motion pictures – each big-budget spectacles of Biblical proportions, and low-budget movies with coronary heart that received an enormous viewers.   

FROM 2020: Now exhibiting – The return of the drive-in (YouTube Video)
Nancy Giles seems to be into the resurgence of drive-in film theatres, and their offshoots – projections in parking tons, and screenings on the water. 

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