60 Minutes
On YouTube · CBS News’s flagship investigative broadcast (generalist channel; the VA-relevant segments below are full or substantial reports, not clips).
60 Minutes is a generalist broadcast, but its veteran segments are substantial, full-length reporting. The standouts here are its 2024 segment on the children who step up as caregivers for veterans with PTSD, its reporting on veterans driven to unconventional PTSD therapies after conventional care failed them, and Morley Safer’s archive report on Vietnam’s women combat nurses.
Why we carry them. When the biggest megaphone in American television turns to the family side of the VA fight, it carries what caregivers live every day to the whole country.
Essential viewing
Children of veterans with PTSD describe the stress of stepping up at home | 60 Minutes · 2024-04-28
Scott Pelley meets the children of injured veterans who quietly became caregivers at home — the family seat, on national television.
Psychedelics and Other Unconventional Therapies | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
Full-episode compilation anchored by Anderson Cooper’s report on U.S. veterans with PTSD who traveled to Mexico for psychedelic treatment.
From the 60 Minutes archives: The Forgotten Veterans
Morley Safer’s 1989 report on the women combat nurses who saved countless lives in Vietnam and came home to contempt instead of thanks.
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