Scott Pelley's Stories from 45 Years as a Journalist

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 21, 2019

60 Minutes correspondent and former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, now the author of Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times (Hanover Square Press, 2019) talks about the importance of a free press through the stories of individuals he has interviewed in his 45 years in journalism.

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