This week on “Sunday Morning” (April 20)

COVER STORY: The start of the American Revolution | Watch Video
On April 19, 1775, British troops confronted off towards colonial militias within the Massachusetts cities of Lexington and Harmony, and exchanged hearth, setting off America’s Warfare of Independence. Correspondent Mo Rocca explores the dramatic occasions of that fateful day 250 years in the past; and hears from reenactors about why the colonists’ beliefs nonetheless maintain true immediately.

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ALMANAC: April 20 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” seems to be again at historic occasions on this date.

ARTS: Contained in the transformation of the Frick Assortment (Video)
One among New York Metropolis’s most beautiful museums, the Frick Assortment, situated within the former house of a Gilded Age metal baron, has reopened following a four-year, greater than $200 million renovation. “Sunday Morning” nationwide correspondent Robert Costa goes behind the meticulous restoration of an ornate mansion housing masterpieces that may be a masterpiece itself.

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SWEETS: Chocolate Easter eggs: Cracking open a sweet custom (Video)
Based in 1824, the candymaker Cadbury produces roughly 1,000,000 chocolate crème eggs a day, year-round, at its manufacturing unit in Bournville, England. Correspondent Seth Doane delves into some chocolate historical past, and finds out why chocolate eggs bought to Individuals are totally different from these bought to customers in different nations.

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TV: Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino: Curtain up on “Étoile” | Watch Video
“Étoile,” a brand new Amazon Prime sequence about two struggling ballet firms in New York and Paris, is the most recent comic-drama from Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino, the Emmy-winning couple behind such hits as “Gilmore Women” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Correspondent Religion Salie talks with the writers a couple of partnership that all the time manages to search out the comedian reduction.

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PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers among the notable figures who left us this week, together with veteran TV sport present host Wink Martindale.

WORLD: The hazards posed by cuts to U.S. international assist | Watch Video
Elon Musk’s proverbial chainsaw and President Trump’s insurance policies have focused American international assist, and with it the humanitarian teams whose work it funds world wide. “Sunday Morning” senior contributor Ted Koppel talks with humanitarian assist employees in Africa and Afghanistan, and with former U.Ok. international secretary David Miliband (now president and CEO of the Worldwide Rescue Committee), concerning the impacts each overseas and at house.  

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STAGE: David Hyde Pierce, the very mannequin of a contemporary Main-Common, in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical” | Watch Video
“Frasier” star David Hyde Pierce is again on the Broadway stage in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical,” a jazzy re-working of the Gilbert & Sullivan basic, transplanted to New Orleans. The previous aspiring live performance pianist talks with correspondent Martha Teichner concerning the thread that Gilbert & Sullivan has run all through his life. He additionally talks about his comedy influences, and what it means to him to make individuals chortle. 

EXTENDED INTERVIEW: David Hyde Pierce (Video)

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LIFESTYLE: GenSpace in Los Angeles re-imagines what a senior middle could be (Video)
GenSpace, a brand new neighborhood middle for seniors in Los Angeles based by philanthropist Wallis Annenberg, affords up the sort of house and actions by which older individuals can thrive. Correspondent Allison Aubrey talks with Annenberg about GenSpace’s intergenerational strategy, and whether or not her mannequin for a contemporary senior middle is replicable throughout the nation.

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FASHION: How hat fashions ruffled feathers, spurring a conservation motion (Video)
Within the late 1800s, feather style was fashionable, particularly amongst ladies in excessive society, with some feathers price greater than their weight in gold. The recognition of colourful plumes in hats and equipment led to the slaughter of birds, driving some species near extinction by the early twentieth century. Correspondent Conor Knighton seems to be on the historical past of the plume commerce and the conservation efforts that have been instrumental in making it unlawful.  

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COMMENTARY: Jim Gaffigan: When will or not it’s protected to retire from parenting? | Watch Video
The comic, a self-described workaholic, displays on the calls for of his different job, that of mother or father to 5. 

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NATURE: Excessive Falls in New York (Prolonged Video)
We go away you this Sunday with the sights and sounds of spring at Excessive Falls in Philmont, New York. Videographer: Lorraine Mullins.
    

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MARATHON: Adventures in outer house (YouTube Video)
Launch into outer house with “CBS Sunday Morning” and discover the world of NASA, astronomy and extra. Tales embrace: 

• The seamstress who made Apollo’s spacesuits 
• Eating on house meals 
• The revolutionary Webb House Telescope 
• Astronaut prepares for a yr in orbit 
• Clearing the heavens of house junk 
• Apollo 8 crew on capturing the Earthrise picture 
• Aboard the Worldwide House Station 
• Mars beckons 
• SpaceX and Nasa’s new period in crewed spaceflight  

GALLERY: Notable deaths in 2025
A glance again on the esteemed personalities who left us this yr, who’d touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.  

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