Anybody familiar with Paul Farmer knows that he's very outspoken and pretty radical in his view of things. Hopefully that will come through in this report (which is the third segment of the program). The gentleman in the first segment just happens to be an African-American. Amazing, isn't it, how often these false convictions just happen to involve people of color. You'd almost think there was some sort of pattern... From: 60 Minutes Newsletter <newsletter_sixty_minutes-gingold=sti.net@xxxxxxxxx> To: gingold@xxxxxxx Subject: 60 Minutes E-mail Alert Date sent: Fri, 2 May 2008 15:17:37 -0400 On each of the nearly 10,000 days he spent in jail, James Woodard held out hope that someone would believe he was innocent. Woodard was freed this past Tuesday and is the longest serving inmate to be released with the help of DNA in U.S. history. Correspondent Scott Pelley has the first-ever interview with Woodard for our lead story Sunday. Woodard spent 27 years behind bars until a new district attorney took over the Dallas County prosecutor's office and did a remarkable thing: he invited lawyers and law students from the Innocence Project of Texas into his office to review 400 cases that had previously been denied post- conviction DNA testing. They found crucial evidence never given to his lawyers that when coupled with DNA testing proved Woodard did not kill his girlfriend. So far 17 men have been cleared in Dallas, and another 250 cases are still being investigated. Next up, in her first television interview, the mother of former NFL star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman, Mary Tillman, talks to correspondent Katie Couric about her son and about her crusade for truth. Seven military investigations and two Congressional hearings can't convince her that the government is telling all it knows about how her son was killed in a mountain canyon in Afghanistan four years ago. At first the Army said he was a hero who died trying to save his men. Then they revealed that his own men had shot him accidentally. "I felt terrible for these young men¦and I still do, to a degree. But I don't think it was the horrible accident that they like to play this out. I think there was huge negligence involved here," she tells Couric. In our last story you will meet a remarkable man, Dr. Paul Farmer, who came up with a new way to deliver health care that has saved too many lives to count. Twenty years ago, Farmer helped start a charitable medical service in Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere. He has grown his Partners in Health charity into a service reaching nine countries and employing 6,000 people. But there are so many more people to save, he tells CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts, because millions die each year of treatable diseases. "Well, let me just give you some numbers. Just from AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and women who die in childbirth -- I bet thats six million [dead]."