“‘60 MINUTES’ WILL BE JUST FINE [WITHOUT ME],” SAYS STEVE KROFT IN HIS FINAL APPEARANCE ON THE BROADCAST SUNDAY, SEPT. 8 ON CBS
“60 Minutes” Pays Tribute to its Retired Correspondent in a Special Hour
Thirty years and 500 stories later, Steve Kroft retires from 60 MINUTES comfortably knowing the show, now in its 52nd season, will go on without him. He makes this and other observations on his remarkable career in an interview with his colleague Lesley Stahl, in a special hour to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Sept. 8 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
The first two thirds of the program contain some of Kroft’s biggest moments on 60 MINUTES – moments fans will remember among the very best on the newsmagazine. When Stahl suggests those contributions to 60 MINUTES will be missed, the newsman says, “It means a lot to me to hear you say that…60 MINUTES will be fine, just fine.”
Among those moments, stories about: Chernobyl, Clint Eastwood, Justice Clarence Thomas, Beyoncé and Jerry Seinfeld. In the last part of the hour, 60 MINUTES rebroadcasts Kroft’s whimsical tale of life on an island off the Scottish Coast. “The Isle of Eigg” won an Edward R. Murrow award last year.
In a few weeks, 60 MINUTES will learn whether it wins any 2019 Emmy awards; four of the nominated stories are Kroft’s.
It is his time to leave, Kroft tells Stahl, who says she tried to talk him out of it. “I’ve always…had great amount of respect for people who’ve left their professions when they were on top,” says the 74-year-old journalist. “I felt that this was the time for me to go, that there were other things that I wanted to do that I still had the energy to do…”
“60 MINUTES” TO BROADCAST RETROSPECTIVE ON THE CAREER OF CORRESPONDENT STEVE KROFT SUNDAY, SEPT. 8 ON CBS
Photo Credit: Aaron Tomlinson for 60 MINUTES.
Lesley Stahl Interviews Kroft for a Tribute Hour
60 MINUTES looks back on the career of Steve Kroft in an hour-long edition dedicated to its former correspondent Sunday, Sept. 8 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Kroft, who announced his retirement in May, appears in an interview with his colleague Lesley Stahl for the broadcast.
The tribute show surveys 50 years of Kroft’s work as a journalist, focusing mostly on his 30 years at 60 MINUTES. Highlights of that work will illustrate the profile conducted by Stahl. The rest of the hour includes two classic Kroft stories from the archives.
Kroft reported nearly 500 60 MINUTES segments. Some of the biggest moments from that body of work will be included, among them the 1992 interview of Bill and Hilary Clinton, the historic post-election interview with Barack and Michelle Obama, and Kroft’s memorable face-off with Clint Eastwood.
Five Peabody Awards and two DuPont Columbia University Silver Batons top a list of honors earned by Kroft, one of the most distinguished journalists of his generation. He has also won the Investigative Editors and Reporters Award (IRE), the George Polk and RFK Journalism Awards and a dozen Emmys. He’s also been honored with the industry’s major lifetime achievement awards: the Fred Friendly First Amendment Award, the Paul White Award from the RTDNA, and a Lifetime Achievement Emmy.
The Kroft hour was produced by senior producer L. Franklin Devine and edited by Warren Lustig. Bill Owens is the executive producer of 60 MINUTES, America’s most-watched news program.
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