Translated in some cases, we are in front of masterpieces that could have changed the path of musical language in europe if they had been written in a free world. Family, singing in the kitchen family, running through the yard family, all four seasons family, well bless your heart family, all in this together family, were taking a chance family, like birds of a feather family, kick off your shoes and dance family, like birds of a feather family, kick off your shoes and dance wertheim good evening. Im jon wertheim. Welcome to 60 minutes presents. The sign above the steel gates of auschwitz reads arbeit macht frei. Work sets you free. It was, of course, a chilling lie, an evil hoax. But there was one surprising source of temporary escape inside the gates music. Composers and singers and under the bleakest conditions imaginable, they performed and wrote music. Lots of it. More than six Million People most of them jews died in the holocaust. But their music did not, thanks in part to the e
The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus there been one of the longest titles at hand, why did you write this . Guest it seemed something they would get sick and get better again. Iive never been interested at all. I wrote an article for the times about a miraculous discovery. Theres a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he does Science Magazine and somehow managed to get some lung tissues from a soldier that died in 1918 and the next issue there were still fragments and when i interviewed him about his work, he told me about the pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. Id nevei had never heard of ang like this. It was the worst thing in history. If told so many people that if Something Like that came today if that killed more people than the top ten killers wrapped together, 1. 5 million mortality rate. And i found out by looking at papers by the centers for Disease Control 99 of the people that i and the epidemic were under 65 so it was a devastatin
Again. I was never interested in it at all. A few years ago im a reporter for the New York Times i wrote an article for the times about really miraculous discovery. He was reporting in a technical journal. He managed to get the lung tissue. In that lung tissue there was still in fragments of the virus that had killed him. When i interviewed this man he told me about the influenza pandemic of 1918. And i was stunned. Ive just never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic. It killed 70 people. If Something Like that came by today. It would kill more people than the top ten killers. I just found out by looking at the papers. 99 percent of the email that died in this pandemic were under the age of 65. It was an astonishing devastating epidemic and what made the story for me was this idea all of these years later. They have actually have some lung tissue. What was this virus. How could it become such a killer. And could it happen again. If so would you reco
Impossible that music could have been performed and composed at a place like this site of unspeakable evil, the most horrific mass murder in human history. More than a million men, women and children died here. For those who passed through this entrance, known as the gate of death, these tracks were a path to genocide and terror. During the holocaust, an entire generation of talented musicians, composers and virtuosos perished. 75 years later, Francesco Lotoro is breathing life into their work. translated in some cases, we are in front of masterpieces that could have changed the path of musical language in europe if they had been written in a free world. Im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im sharyn alfonsi. Im jon wertheim. Im scott pelley. Those stories and more, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking over. Hey, want to try it . Ok here you go. Over. Under. Hey whoa, pop, pop. Your shoes untied. Ensure hes well taken care of, even as you build your own plans for retiremen
Weekend on cspan3. The president is due at a rally in tupelo, mississippi, within the next few minutes. Well is have live coverage as he campaigns for Lieutenant Governor tate reese whos running for governor in tuesdays election. Until the president arrives and starts, heres white house economic director larry kudlow talking with reporters today about the latest jobs numbers. Yesterday the president [inaudible] the impeachment effort is holding back the stock market. Do you believe thats true . Yes, i do, actually. Why . Because i think fundamentally, and, you know, your network has reported some pretty prominent, famous investors Lee Cooperman among them, Lloyd Blankfein among them who do not want to see a change in President Trumps economic policy. They like the tax cut incentives, they like the rollback of regulations, they like the opening in the energy sector, and they like the fact that the president is trying to reduce trade barriers and is engaging china in order to protect ame