Darfur Genocide Continues ; Horrific Stories From Sudan

The Washington Times › November 06, 2006

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As a fledgling journalist, I once saw Edward R. Murrow about to go on the air at CBS in New York. I was in awe, as I was when I first met Duke Ellington. Mr. Murrow's legacy at CBS still lives on not through Katie Couric but in the daring, long-range investigations of Scott Pelley at "60 Minutes." He is not chained to such 24-hour-news-cycle stories as those about the Foleys and Madonnas. Like the Public Broadcasting System's "Frontline," "60 Minutes" shows that journalism can be not only the first drafts of history but history itself.

On Oct. 22, during "Searching for Jacob" on "60 Minutes," Scott Pelley went on a long, dangerous journey to find a boy whose schoolbooks were discovered in the ashes of his destroyed home in an obliterated village in Darfur. Mr. Pelley saw those notebooks, including pages of the ABCs in Arabic, in the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Darfur Genocide Continues ; Horrific Stories From Sudan

To find Jacob, if he was still alive, Mr. Pelley traveled 7,000 miles into areas of genocide where he was forbidden to go, not only by the war criminals heading Sudan's government but also by our own ...

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