This week on “Sunday Morning” (April 20)

Hosted by Jane Pauley

A portray depicting colonists battling British troops at Harmony Bridge, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775 – the “shot heard ’round the world” of the American Revolutionary Warfare.

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COVER STORY: The delivery of the American RevolutionOn April 19, 1775, British troops confronted off in opposition to 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 right now.

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

A view of the West Gallery of the Frick Assortment, March 25, 2025, in New York Metropolis. The museum reopened to the general public on April 17, following a four-year renovation.

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ARTS: Contained in the transformation of the Frick CollectionOne of New York Metropolis’s most beautiful museums, the Frick Assortment, positioned within the former dwelling 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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A member of the pharmacology division takes stock of the final bins of medicine delivered by the now-dismantled United States Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) amid medical provide shortages, in a pharmacy storeroom at Lodwar County Referral Hospital in Lodwar, Kenya, April 1, 2025.

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

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

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     PASSAGE: In memoriam“Sunday Morning” remembers a number of the notable figures who left us this week.

Chocolate crème eggs hatched on the Cadbury manufacturing unit in Bournville, England.

SWEETS: Chocolate Easter eggs: Cracking open a sweet traditionFounded in 1824, the candymaker Cadbury produces roughly one million 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 People are completely different from these bought to shoppers in different nations.

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       HARTMAN: Chicken child      

Correspondent Martha Teichner with actor David Hyde Pierce. 

STAGE: David Hyde Pierce, the very mannequin of a contemporary major-general, in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical”“Frasier” star David Hyde Pierce is again on the Broadway stage in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical,” a jazzy re-working of the Gilbert & Sullivan traditional, 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. 

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       LIFESTYLE: GenSpace in Los Angeles re-imagines what a senior heart can beGenSpace, a brand new group heart for seniors in Los Angeles based by philanthropist Wallis Annenberg, presents up the sort of area and actions through 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 heart is replicable throughout the nation.

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A 1910 portrait of a girl sporting a chicken hat fabricated from ostrich feathers.

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FASHION: How hat fashions ruffled feathers and spurred a conservation movementIn the late 1800s, feather vogue was stylish, particularly amongst girls in excessive society, with some feathers value 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?The comic, a self-described workaholic, displays on the calls for of his different job, that of guardian to 5. 

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      NATURE: TBD    

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

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

Notable Deaths in 2025

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

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