“60 MINUTES” LISTINGS FOR SUNDAY, MAY 7
DEPORTED
– Family and neighbors lament the recent deportation of a father,
friend and business owner who had no criminal record and had lived in
the U.S. for nearly 20 years. His wife and children were all U.S.
citizens. Anderson Cooper reports. Andy Court and Sarah Fitzpatrick are
the producers.
THE NUREMBERG PROSECUTOR
– Ben Ferencz is the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials
after World War II. At 97, he recalls to Lesley Stahl in vivid detail
prosecuting Nazi commanders for the murders of more than a million
people, the largest killings outside the concentration camps. Shari
Finkelstein and Nieves Zuberbuhler are the producers.
THEO AND JOE
– Bill Whitaker gets the inside story from the Cub’s management and
players on how they brought the World Series trophy to Chicago for the
first time in 108 years. Robert Anderson and Aaron Weisz are the
producers.
05.05.2017
BLANK FACES OF GUILTY NAZIS IN NUREMBERG STILL
HAUNT THE LAST PROSECUTOR WHO BROUGHT THEM TO JUSTICE, THIS SUNDAY ON
“60 MINUTES”
Ben Ferencz, at 97, Remembers the Trial like It Was Yesterday
It still appalls him after 70 years. Ben Ferencz says that the lack of
remorse on the blank faces of the Nazis he prosecuted for killing more
than a million innocent people is still revolting. The 97-year-old
recalls the scene at Nuremberg in vivid detail to Lesley Stahl on the
next edition of 60 MINUTES, Sunday, May 7 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
“Defendants’ faces were blank all the time…absolutely
blank…like…they’re waiting for a bus,” recalls Ferencz. Asked what was
going on inside him, Ferencz replies, “I’m still churning,” as he tears
up. “I’m still churning.” Watch an excerpt.
Ferencz was a 24-year-old Army private with a law degree from Harvard
who had served in many of the major battles of World War II when he was
transferred into a new Army unit charged with investigating war crimes.
He entered several newly liberated concentration camps in search of
evidence. After the war, as part of the Nuremberg prosecution team, he
came upon a cache of secret Nazi reports documenting the systematic
killing of more than a million people, victims who were massacred by SS
troops not in concentration camps, but in the towns and cities where
they lived.
“They were 3,000 SS officers trained for the purpose and directed to
kill, without pity or remorse, every single Jewish man, woman and child
they could lay their hands on,” he tells Stahl.
The Nuremberg trials were the first international war crimes tribunals
and were already underway when Ferencz presented the newfound evidence
to his superiors. They told him the trial schedule was already set, and
there wasn’t enough staff to prosecute another trial. Ferencz persisted;
he had the reports outlining in detail the murders he wanted the world
to know about. He was told that if he could handle the case in addition
to his other work, he himself could do it. He was 27 years old.
Ferencz’s trial, of 22 commanders of the SS units called
Einsatzgruppen, was trial number nine at Nuremberg. All 22 pled not
guilty. “‘Nicht Schuldig’…Same thing, not guilty,” says Ferencz. But he
had their own written reports of the murders they and their men had
committed. He didn’t even have to call any witnesses. Still, the
defendants denied their guilt.
One in particular did so in such a flagrant way, Ferencz says, that
Ferencz almost lost his composure in the courtroom. “He gets up and he
says,” then uttering the words in German before translating, “‘What? The
Jews were shot? I hear it here for the first time.’ Boy, I felt, if I’d
had a bayonet, I would have jumped over the thing and put a bayonet
right through one ear and let it come out the other.”
Ferencz went on to become a legend in international law circles and was
a passionate advocate for creating the International Criminal Court in
The Hague, where war crimes are prosecuted. He still speaks out against
war and crimes against humanity. As he tells Stahl, “Now I will tell you
something very profound, which I have learned after many years. War
makes murderers out of otherwise decent people.”
FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS LAMENT THE DEPORTATION OF A FATHER, FRIEND AND BUSINESS OWNER, ON “60 MINUTES” THIS SUNDAY
Roberto Beristain Came to the U.S. Illegally Nearly 20 Years Ago
The
family and friends of a business owner who recently was deported to
Mexico speak out against the new immigration policy that led to his
arrest and the arrests of thousands of other illegal immigrants with no
criminal records. Anderson
Cooper talks to the Indiana residents, most of whom voted for President
Donald Trump, whose new policy directly affected business owner Roberto
Beristain, for a 60 MINUTES report Sunday, May 7 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Beristain had no criminal record and had lived in the U.S. for nearly
20 years. His wife and children are all U.S. citizens. He entered the
U.S. illegally in 1998, but he’d been issued a temporary work permit,
social security number and driver’s license during the Obama
administration. Beristain was the longtime cook and new owner of
“Eddie’s Steak Shed,” a restaurant in Granger, Ind., which employs up to
20 people.
“It just feels wrong,” says Kimberly Glowacki. She and other local residents who know Beristain spoke with Cooper.
“The community is better for having someone like him,” says Michelle
Craig. “This is not the person he said he would deport,” she added,
referring to President Trump, whom she says she voted for. Dave Keck
echoed her feelings. “I voted for him because he said he was going to
get rid of the bad hombres – Roberto is a good hombre,” he tells Cooper.
Matt Leliaert says Beristain had the American Dream in his hands: “I
mean, he showed up here with just the shirt on his back and he's a
restaurant owner 20 years later…and he worked his butt off to get
there.” Watch the excerpt.
During the Obama administration, the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agency (ICE) was told to focus on deporting illegal
immigrants with convictions for felonies or serious misdemeanors. On his
fifth day in office, President Trump signed a new executive order that
still made deporting criminals a priority but also made it easier to
deport people with no criminal records. ICE says the number of illegal
immigrants with no criminal records who have been arrested has more than
doubled since President Trump signed that order.
James Carafano, a policy expert at the Heritage Foundation and a member
of the president’s transition team, says the new policy is designed to
serve as a deterrent. “It's not that they're going out and they're
looking for people who have done nothing. But that we have an obligation
to enforce the law,” he says. “And if somebody comes across our path
who's broken the law… There's a new sheriff in town. And the law's going
to be enforced.”
In a statement, ICE told 60 MINUTES that Roberto Beristain had been
deported because he had a “final order of removal” against him. During a
trip to Niagara Falls 17 years ago, Beristain had taken a wrong turn,
ended up at the Canadian Border and was detained for not having papers.
When he failed to “voluntarily depart” the U.S. within 60 days after
that incident, he automatically became the subject of that “final order
of removal.” But three years ago, he obtained a temporary deferral of
that order, and he had been checking in with the government once a year
ever since.
Beristain’s wife, Helen, tells Cooper about her husband: “The only bad
thing he's done is stayed in the United States because he loves this
country. That's his only crime.”
05.05.2017
YOU GOTTA HAVE CHARACTER! THAT’S THE SECRET SAUCE
THAT WON CUBS FIRST WORLD SERIES IN 108 YEARS, SAYS CLUB PRESIDENT THEO
EPSTEIN, ON “60 MINUTES”
Character is the difference maker. And once the Chicago Cubs put
together a team with character and a good deal of talent, they won the
World Series for the first time in 108 years. That’s the secret to the
Cubs’ incredible championship, says the team’s president, Theo Epstein.
Bill Whitaker speaks to Epstein, manager Joe Maddon and teammates Kyle
Schwarber and Jason Heyward for the inside look at a sports story for
the ages. Whitaker’s report will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday, May 7 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Epstein, who helped the Boston Red Sox win their first World Series in
86 years, built the Cubs with young hitters who had character. “Players
that tend to respond to adversity the right way and triumph in the end
are players with strong character. If you have enough guys like that in
the clubhouse, you have an edge on the other team,” he says. “I just saw
over the years that the times that we did remarkable things, it was
always because players didn’t want to let each other down. Players
wanted to lift each other up,” Epstein tells Whitaker. How does he know
they have it? “Find out how he treats people when no one’s looking. You
go talk to their girlfriend…their ex-girlfriends. You go talk to their
friends…their enemies,” says Epstein. Watch the excerpt.
Epstein brought Schwarber to the Cubs because he had character. “He
would run through a wall in order to catch a ball. He would attack any
obstacle that faced the team,” says Epstein. The slugger tore knee
ligaments early in April last year and was supposed to be out for the
season. He was determined to make it back sooner. To everyone’s
surprise, his doctor cleared him to play just in time for the World
Series. But it was risky. “He’s like, I’m not going to hold you back,
but you could blow out a hamstring or an oblique by trying to do this,”
Schwarber recalls. “And I was like, ‘That’s fine. I got the whole
off-season to take care of it.’”
It came down to Schwarber, who hadn’t batted in six months, trying to
get back his stroke and eye only a few days before the World Series –
all while doctors limited him to 60 swings a day. He took his 60 swings,
but also stood in front of pitching machine watching hundreds of
pitches to retrain his eye. He batted .400 in the World Series and got
the hit that set up a dramatic win in extra innings of the final game.
But it took another act of character from another teammate to set him
up.
Jason Heyward had a tough season, batting just .230. In Game 7, when
the Cleveland Indians scored three times to tie the Cubs in the eighth
inning, the team was down. Heyward called a meeting during a rain delay
after the ninth inning, something the Cubs hadn’t needed all season. “I
didn’t know what to say. I just told them that I loved them. I said, ‘We
are the best team in the game….’” Heyward tells Whitaker. That’s when
character kicked in, says Schwarber. “You could feel that energy in that
room, it shifted from…being dead to we’re going to win this game.”
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