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Wed., Sept. 23, 1998

The stopwatch whose insistent ticking has introduced every broadcast of the television news magazine “60 minutes” since its 1968 beginning entered the Smithsonian Institution’s popular culture collection Tuesday. “This artifact is the best-known object from the most-watched TV news program of the late 20th century,” said Spencer Crew, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. On hand for the stopwatch’s presentation were “60 Minutes” excutive producer Don Hewitt and correspondents Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Lesley Stahl and Andy Rooney. CBS television aired “60 Minutes” for the first time Sept. 24, 1968.

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