This week on “Sunday Morning” (March 8)

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Hosted by Lee Cowan

COVER STORY: Apple turns 50, in a world it helped create | Watch Video
In 1971, the origin story of Apple began with the friendship of engineering prodigy Steve Wozniak and computer enthusiast Steve Jobs. The machine they built and sold five years later would lead to what became the first trillion-dollar company. David Pogue, author of the new history “Apple: The First 50 Years,” talks with Wozniak, CEO Tim Cook, and others about how the tech company’s products and services have reshaped life, technology and culture in the 21st century.

READ AN EXCERPT: “Apple: The First 50 Years” by David Pogue

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview – Tim Cook (Video)
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, talks with “Sunday Morning” correspondent David Pogue (author of “Apple: The First 50 Years”) to discuss the company’s first half-century and its constant focus on “the next thing.” He also talks about the vision of Steve Jobs, whose return to Apple in 1997 reinvigorated the company.

LIVE EVENT: Join us as Lee Cowan talks with David Pogue about his new book, “Apple: The First 50 Years,” at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Thurs., April 16 at 8 p.m. Tickets are available for in-person or streaming access. 

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ALMANAC: March 8 (Video)
Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date.

WORLD: How Trump and Netanyahu launched attacks on Iran (Video)
Last June, President Donald Trump announced U.S. strikes on Iran had “completely and totally obliterated” key facilities of that country’s nuclear program. Now, Trump has attacked Iranian territory again, in conjunction with strikes ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin talks with retired general and CBS News contributor Frank McKenzie about Washington’s escalating war with Tehran.     

WORLD: Uncertainty deepens over Iran as U.S. and Israeli attacks continue (Video)
American and Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran that killed the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, prompting retaliatory strikes across the region, are the latest chapter in a nearly half-century stand-off between Tehran and Washington. “Sunday Morning” national correspondent Robert Costa talks with New Yorker writer Robin Wright about Iran’s history and ambitions, and about President Trump’s next steps after launching strikes.

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ARTS: “Framed”: Highlighting the art that surrounds art (Video)
A current show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art puts the spotlight on a rarely-appreciated component of art: the picture frames that border it. Faith Salie explores the history of framing art, and talks with curator Tara Contractor and frame conservator Chris Ferguson about a craft bordering on exquisite.

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TV: “NCIS” at 500: Cracking the code | Watch Video
The CBS procedural “NCIS,” now in its 23rd season, is marking its 500th episode tracking agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. But the story of how the series became the world’s most-watched TV show is filled with as many twists and turns as an NCIS case itself. Luke Burbank talks with cast members Gary Cole, Brian Dietzen, Katrina Law, Sean Murray, Diona Reasonover and Wilmer Valderrama and longtime showrunner Steve Binder about the secret to the franchise’s remarkable longevity. 

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• The 500th episode of “NCIS” airs March 24 on CBS and will stream on Paramount+

     
PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including veteran CBS News producer George Osterkamp

U.S.: The persistence of hunger in America | Watch Video
Though the Trump administration has discontinued the government’s annual report on food insecurity, claiming it does nothing more than “fear monger,” the problem of hunger persists. On any given day, almost 48 million Americans, including nearly 14 million children, don’t get enough to eat. Lee Cowan sits down with Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, the outgoing CEO of the nation’s largest hunger relief organization, Feeding America, for a reality check about hunger in these United States.

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BOOKS: Viola Davis and her latest co-star, author James Patterson | Watch Video
Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis often writes book-length biographies for the characters she portrays on screen. And now she’s written an actual book: “Judge Stone,” a courtroom thriller that touches on the lightning-rod issue of abortion, co-authored with bestselling writer James Patterson. Tracy Smith talks with Davis and Patterson about their collaboration, and how Davis’ childhood ambition to be a writer fueled this latest chapter in her life.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview: Viola Davis (Video)
Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis talks with Tracy Smith about co-authoring her first novel in collaboration with James Patterson, “Judge Stone.” In her discussion of writing, acting and art, she notes that discomfort and awkwardness are “how we make the greatest discoveries in life.”

READ AN EXCERPT: “Judge Stone” by Viola Davis & James Patterson

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BOOKS: Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein talks Wall Street crises, past and future | Watch Video
In his new memoir, “Streetwise,” Lloyd Blankfein, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, writes about a life that stretched from the projects of New York City to the pinnacle of Wall Street. He talks with Jo Ling Kent about his unlikely rise to the top of the C-Suite; and about accountability for the “calamitous” 2007-2008 financial crisis, as well as the prospects of new economic turmoil.

READ AN EXCERPT: “Streetwise” by Lloyd Blankfein

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NATURE: Snow geese in Missouri (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday with some two million migrating snow geese enjoying a layover in northwest Missouri. Videographer: Kevin Kjergaard.     

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement” (Video)
Civil rights activist Bernard Lafayette, who helped organize the Selma Voting Rights Movement in the 1960s, died March 5, 2026, at age 85. In this 1980 “Sunday Morning” report by Ted Holmes, Lafayette, along with Bernice Reagon, E.D. Nixon and Ibisoto Ajamu, attended “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement,” a reunion of civil rights organizers, song leaders and photographers held by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, where the remembrances and songs of the movement were celebrated.   

MARATHON: Profiles of 2026 Oscar nominees (YouTube Video)
Watch these “Sunday Morning” profiles of some of the actors and filmmakers nominated for this year’s Academy Awards: 

• Writer-director Guillermo del Toro on “Frankenstein” 
• Ethan Hawke on “Blue Moon” 
• Jessie Buckley on “Hamnet” 
• Michael B. Jordan on “Sinners” 
• Stellan Skarsgård on “Sentimental Value” 
• Kate Hudson on “Song Sung Blue” 
• Jacob Elordi on “Frankenstein”

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