This week on “Sunday Morning” (June 22)

Hosted by Jane Pauley

       
HEADLINES: American B-2 bombers strike Iran (Video)
Late Saturday, President Trump announced that the United States had launched strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, following a week of attacks and retaliation between Israel and Iran. This morning, Iran continued their strikes on Israel, some smashing into residential areas. Correspondent Holly Williams reports.  

EXTENDED INTERVIEW: LQ Goldring on her quest for a kidney donor (Video)
In this web exclusive, LaQuayia Goldring (who goes by LQ) talks with “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty about her experience as a dialysis patient and kidney donor recipient, and her struggle to locate a new kidney after her donated organ failed.

For more info:

• National Kidney Registry
• National Kidney Foundation
• “How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine” by Tom Mueller (W.W. Norton), available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• Ryan McDevitt, professor of economics, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
• Dr. Leonard Stern, Columbia University, New York
• LaQuayia Goldring (National Kidney Registry)
• LaQuayia Goldring (The Great Social Experiment)

        
ALMANAC: June 22 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date. 
      

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TV: Patrick Schwarzenegger on his breakout “White Lotus” role | Watch Video
His mother is a member of the Kennedy clan; his father was the Terminator. Now, actor Patrick Schwarzenegger is a standout in the HBO Max series “The White Lotus,” playing the sex-obsessed scion of a wealthy family on vacation in Thailand. He talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about how he chose to pursue a career while carrying the weight of a famous Hollywood name.

WEB EXTRA: “The White Lotus” clip: Saxon and Timothy (YouTube Video)
In the third season of the HBO series “The White Lotus,” Timothy Ratliff (Jason Issacs), on vacation with his family in Thailand, stars illicitly taking medication owing to alarming news from work. In this scene, Saxon Ratliff (Patrick Schwarzenegger) demands to know from his dad whether everything is OK at the office. [Spoiler alert: Everything is NOT OK at the office.]  

EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Patrick Schwarzenegger (Video)
In this web exclusive, actor Patrick Schwarzenegger, whose breakout role was playing the sex-obsessed scion of a wealthy family on vacation in Thailand in HBO’s “The White Lotus,” talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about growing up on the set of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s films; his “kind of creepy, but funny” audition for “White Lotus”; his father’s reaction to his performance; and why he feels he’s avoided the pitfalls of growing up the child of famous parents.

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PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including singer Lou Christie (“Lightnin’ Strikes”). [Photo of Norma Meras Swenson courtesy of the Swenson family.

ARTS: Jason Jones’ altered thrift store art (Video)
Jason Jones is one of several artists who has found inspiration from an unlikely source: second-hand paintings found in thrift stores, which are altered with robots, Muppets, and other helpful additions. Correspondent Luke Burbank talks with Jones about his modifications of found art, from embellishing religious themes with fast food, to spotting Sasquatch in the most unlikely places.

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ARTS: Schooling the stars (Video)
For more than 100 years, New York’s Professional Children’s School has provided an education for young people already engaged in careers in the arts or athletics. Their alumni include ballet star Tiler Peck, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and actors Rita Moreno, Scarlett Johannson, and Macaulay and Kieran Culkin. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks to Peck; with Head of School James Dawson; and with some current students who are splitting time between schoolwork and the stage.

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MUSIC: “Break on Through”: How The Doors began | Watch Video
Sixty years ago, a new band came together in Venice, Calif., and lit the music world on fire. The Doors, an improvisational group comprised of poet Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek on keyboards, Robby Krieger on guitar, and John Densmore on drums, are being celebrated with a new book, “Night Divides the Day: The Doors Anthology.” Correspondent Anthony Mason talks with Densmore and Krieger (the last surviving members of the group), and takes a tour of where it all started for The Doors.

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READ AN EXCERPT: “Far From Home” by Lisa Murkowski

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NATURE: Horseshoe crabs in Maine (Extended Video)
     

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EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Lucie Arnaz on her parents, Lucy & Desi (YouTube Video)
In this web exclusive, actress and singer Lucie Arnaz talks with correspondent Mo Rocca about growing up the daughter of comedy legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; her father’s experience as a Cuban refugee and as a television pioneer, as documented in Todd Purdum’s new biography, “Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television”; her parents’ marriage and divorce; and her own parenting challenges. 

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Patti Smith on Jim Morrison (YouTube Video)
In this 2012 “Sunday Morning” web extra, singer Patti Smith (author of the award-winning memoir “Just Kids”) talked with correspondent Anthony Mason about the Doors’ lead singer Jim Morrison, his music, and the first time they met.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The infamous 1916 shark attacks that inspired “Jaws” (YouTube Video)
The scariest word at any beach has to be the warning: SHARK! Attacks by the sea predator are rare, nonetheless create concern for beachgoers. Anna Werner looks back at a fateful string of shark encounters a hundred years ago that stirred the public imagination. (Originally broadcast June 12, 2016.)

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Leonard Lauder on Estée Lauder, mother and icon (YouTube Video)
Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus and former CEO of the global beauty behemoth Estée Lauder Companies, died Saturday, June 14, 2025, at the age of 92. In 2020 he spoke with “Sunday Morning” correspondent Alina Cho about his memoir, “The Company I Keep,” and about his mother, Estée Lauder, a woman who founded a cosmetics empire in her kitchen.  

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