This week on “Sunday Morning” (Dec. 7)

Hosted by Jane Pauley

Mug pictures of Otto Kuehn, taken on the most safety federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, the place he started serving a 50-year sentence for espionage in 1942.

From “Family of Spies”/Celadon Books

COVER STORY: “Family of Spies”: Christine Kuehn discovers her grandfather’s Nazi pastIn 1994 Christine Kuehn obtained a letter that exposed a household historical past from which her father had tried to defend her: Christine’s grandfather, Otto, was a Nazi spy who was the one individual tried and convicted for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. David Martin talks with Kuehn about her German household conducting World Warfare II-era espionage, a story she recounts in her new guide, “Family of Spies.”

READ AN EXCERPT: “Family of Spies” by Christine Kuehn

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ALMANAC: December 7“Sunday Morning” seems to be again at historic occasions on this date.

‘TIS THE SEASON: 2025 holiday gift ideas from Techno ClausWho dresses as St. Nick and speaks an odd brogue? Why, it’s Techno Claus, a.okay.a. David Pogue! He affords “Sunday Morning” viewers his helpful ideas for the gadget lovers in your gift-giving listing.

TECH: AI actress TillyJo Ling Kent experiences.

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Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and Ed Sullivan are seen backstage at “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1956.

Graceland Archives

BOOKS: Elvis and the ColonelElvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick’s newest guide, “The Colonel and the King,” is the story of a partnership that rocked widespread tradition. Anthony Mason talks with Guralnick at Graceland about how Colonel Parker’s advertising and marketing savvy and enduring loyalty helped the King get his crown. Mason additionally talks with Parker’s pal, actor George Hamilton, who witnessed Parker’s playing habit that threatened his partnership with Presley.

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

WORLD: VenezuelaLilia Luciano experiences.

HARTMAN: Francine the Cat

MOVIES: Ethan Hawke on “Blue Moon,” and taking nothing for grantedThe songwriting group of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart helped put the “great” within the Nice American Songbook. However Hart’s heavy consuming led to the top of their partnership. Within the new film “Blue Moon,” Oscar-nominee Ethan Hawke performs a heartbroken Hart lowered to watching Rodgers acquire even better fame collaborating with Oscar Hammerstein II. Hawke talks with Tracy Smith concerning the difficult position of Hart; his personal youthful ambitions; and about becoming a member of the faces on the partitions of the legendary Broadway watering gap Sardi’s.

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BLUE MOON | Official Trailer (2025) bySony Footage Classics onYouTube

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THESE UNITED STATES: The Marshall PlanAfter World Warfare II, a lot of Europe lay in ruins, with meals provides working skinny, and communism on the march. Secretary of State George C. Marshall argued that, somewhat than retreat into isolationism, america ought to assist its European allies – and enemies – rebuild. Seth Doane experiences on how the Marshall Plan not solely helped stabilize post-war Europe, but additionally ushered in an financial increase for America – and a brand new period of cooperation amongst nations.

BOOKS: Creator Jan Karon on returning to MitfordNovelist Jan Karon has written 25 bestsellers, together with 15 a few make-believe mountain village, Mitford – tales wherein the humanity of her characters is evoked in what she calls “a place of refuge.” Karon talks with Religion Salie about discovering her voice as a author at a really younger age; the comforting qualities of her tales; and the way the loss of life of her daughter, Candace, led to her newest Mitford guide, “My Beloved.”

READ AN EXCERPT: “My Beloved” by Jan Karon

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NATURE: Florida

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The playful structure of Frank Gehry

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: The playful structure of Frank Gehry (Video)On this 2022 “Sunday Morning” report, famed architect Frank Gehry, then 92, was not resting on his substantial laurels. The designer behind such landmarks because the Walt Disney Live performance Corridor in downtown Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, talked with “60 Minutes” correspondent Invoice Whitaker about his inventive course of, and the way aerospace know-how enabled him to show his playful concepts into actuality. [Gehry died on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. He was 96.]