This week on “Sunday Morning” (March 24)

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COVER STORY: Husband of U.S. journalist detained in Russia: “I am not going to surrender” | Watch Video
Alsu Kurmasheva, an American-Russian journalist working for Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, was visiting her mom in Russia when authorities there confiscated her passports and jailed her. Kurmasheva faces costs that would result in years of imprisonment as a result of she edited a e book of individuals’s opinions about Russia’s struggle with Ukraine. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with Kurmasheva’s household and colleagues in regards to the rising risks that journalists are going through from governments attempting to masks the reality – what Jodie Ginsberg, chief government officer of the Committee to Shield Journalists, calls “state-sponsored hostage-taking.”

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ALMANAC: March 24 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” seems again at historic occasions on this date.

BOOKS: Christian Cooper, the “Extraordinary Birder” (Video)
Christian Cooper made nationwide information in Could 2020 when, whereas birdwatching in New York’s Central Park, a white girl known as 911 to report that an “African American man was threatening her life” after he’d requested her to place her canine on a leash. His recording of their interplay went viral, simply because the nation was rocked by the George Floyd homicide. Since then, he has hosted a Nationwide Geographic Wild sequence, “Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper,” and written a memoir about rising up a closeted homosexual teenager on Lengthy Island, titled “Higher Residing By means of Birding: Notes from a Black Man within the Pure World.” Nancy Giles stories.

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HEADLINES: Loss of life toll rises in Russia terror assault (Video)
Within the aftermath of Friday’s terrorist assault at a live performance venue exterior Moscow (when armed males in fight fatigues opened fireplace after which set the place ablaze), the demise toll has now climbed to greater than 130. Though ISIS claimed accountability, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pointed a finger at Ukraine, a cost Ukraine flatly denies. CBS Information overseas correspondent Debora Patta stories.

     
HEADLINES: PR professional on what classes royals have realized from Kate’s most cancers information (Video)
After months of hypothesis about her situation, Princess Kate, spouse of the inheritor to the British throne, introduced Friday that she has most cancers. Correspondent Holly Williams talks with Julian Payne, a former spokesman for the King and Queen, about what classes the royal household could have realized after Kate’s withdrawal from the general public for medical causes led to rumors and dizzying conspiracy theories.  

BOOKS: Doris Kearns Goodwin’s private historical past in “An Unfinished Love Story” | Watch Video
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s newest e book is dedicated to her late husband, Richard Goodwin, whose speeches for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Robert F. Kennedy produced a number of the most memorable phrases of the period. She talks about her upcoming e book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Private Historical past of the Nineteen Sixties,” with CBS Information chief election and marketing campaign correspondent Robert Costa, and about how historical past and politics formed their lives collectively. Goodwin additionally explains why she believes individuals who select to tune out from taking part on this yr’s important presidential election are “cowardly.”

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PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers a number of the notable figures who left us this week, together with character actor M. Emmet Walsh, greatest recognized for his roles within the Coen Brothers’ “Blood Easy” and the sci-fi basic “Blade Runner.”

WORLD: The lengthy wrestle to free Evan Gershkovich from a Moscow jail | Watch Video
Final March 29, Wall Road Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was on project in Russia when he was arrested by safety forces and accused of being a spy, a cost vigorously denied by Gershkovich, the paper, and the U.S. authorities. “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl talks with Gershkovich’s sister, Danielle; with Wall Road Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker; and U.S. Particular Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens in regards to the ongoing negotiations to deliver Gershkovich residence. Stahl additionally talks with longtime Kremlin critic Gary Kasparov about how Russian President Vladimir Putin is utilizing prisoners as pawns on his geopolitical chessboard in opposition to the West.

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BOOKS: Author Percival Everett: “In possession of language there resides nice energy” | Watch Video
Creator Percival Everett has challenged the schism of race in such satirical novels as “Erasure” (foundation of the Oscar-winning movie “American Fiction”). His newest, “James,” re-tells the story of “Huckleberry Finn” from the standpoint of Huck’s enslaved good friend, Jim, for whom language turns into a protect, and an avenue towards freedom. Everett talks with correspondent Martha Teichner about his writing, his paintings, and his penchant for privateness.

READ AN EXCERPT:  “James” by Percival Everett

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TV: Steve Martin: Comedian, banjo participant, and now documentary movie topic | Watch Video
The comic recognized for being wild and loopy is now the topic of a documentary on Apple TV+, titled “STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 items.” Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Steve Martin, and with filmmaker and longtime fan Morgan Neville, about telling the 78-year-old legend’s life story, from his comedy information and “SNL,” to strolling away from standup, to enjoying a imply banjo.

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BOOKS: Fareed Zakaria decries the “anti-Americanism” in America’s politics immediately | Watch Video
As host of CNN’s “GPS,” Fareed Zakaria dives into international points with students, presidents, and the occasional celeb. An optimist, Zakaria is nonetheless involved about what he characterizes as a darkness in America introduced on by folks “who really feel that they aren’t benefiting from all of the adjustments in society.” He talks with “Sunday Morning” contributor Kelefa Sanneh about his new e book, “Age of Revolutions,” by which he writes about how societies each embrace change and resist it.

READ AN EXCERPT: “Age of Revolutions” by Fareed Zakaria

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NATURE: Birds of Costa Rica (Prolonged Video)
“Sunday Morning” takes us among the many colourful birds within the jungle close to San Jose, Costa Rica. Videographer: Judith Lehmberg.
     

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Violins of Hope (YouTube Video)
Amnon Weinstein, a luthier who died on March 4, 2024 at age 84, honored the recollections of those that perished within the Holocaust by restoring dozens of string devices that had been performed by Jewish prisoners in Nazi focus camps. On this “Sunday Morning” story that initially aired December 6, 2015, Serena Altschul talked with Weinstein about his mission, and reported on a particular live performance by the Cleveland Orchestra carried out on Weinstein’s “Violins of Hope.”

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Steve Martin’s love of artwork (YouTube Video)
Steve Martin is not only a gifted comic and Hollywood film star; the actor additionally collects artwork, which he writes about in his novel, “An Object of Magnificence,” a narrative of ambition and deceit within the New York artwork scene. Rita Braver stories. (This story was initially broadcast December 5, 2010.)

GALLERY: Notable deaths in 2024
A glance again on the esteemed personalities who’ve left us this yr, who’d touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.

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