60 Minutes season 1

• Behind-the-scenes look at presidential candidate Richard Nixon and his family in their Miami suite during the summer nomination convention for the GOP party. Hubert Humphrey and his family watching the 1968 Democratic National Convention^[2]
• Viewpoints introduce regular feature with guest opinion columnists. Interviews of three European public intellectuals about the elections included: Malcolm Muggeridge, Peter von Zahn and Luigi Barzini Jr.^[2]
• "Cops" relationship between Americans and law enforcement officials with an interview of U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.^[3][4]
• Why Man Creates short film by Saul Bass (Excerpts)

• Examined U.S. Defense research into germ and gas warfare. (First of two parts)^[5][6][7]
• "Red, White and Maddoix" - profile of Lester Maddox, Georgia governor
• Profile of Graham Hill, Formula One driver
• Interview with Richard Nixon the Republican Party candidate for president.

Commentary by Art Buchwald.

• Interview with Democratic Presidential Candidate and current Vice President Hubert Humphrey during the summer nomination convention for Democratic party
• Interview George Wallace, Independent Presidential Candidate
• Second part of an investigative story on U.S. germ and gas warfare research^[6]
• Marriage of Jacueline Kennedy to Aristotle Onassis

• Review previous week's election of Richard Nixon for President.
• Video footage of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia filmed during Prague Spring with Kamil Winter, Czech journalist
• Report on French President Charles de Gaulle with commentary by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
• Profile of NFL football star Joe Namath quarterback of the New York Jets. Commentary by Dick Schaap.
• Profile of Percy Foreman, defense attorney in Texas.

• Interview of Edmund Muskie, re-elected Senator
• Interview Jacqueline Grennan, former nun and president of Webster College. Grennan left the Roman Catholic Church challenging its stance on birth control.
• Visit the Laurant restaurant in New York City with Craig Claiborne, food critic for The New York Times. Reporting by Morley Safer.

• Interview with W. Averell Harriman, former Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Soviet Union, reported by Charles Collingwood
• Report on homosexual assaults in American prisons with Philadelphia District Attorney Arlen Spector, who discusses the results of an investigation into the problem.
• "Dirty Football" - cheating in the National Football League
• "Shoplifting"
• "The international Money Game"

• Interviews of Coretta Scott King, Bernice King, Dexter King, Yolanda King, family of the late activist Martin Luther King, Jr. during Christmas in Atlanta, Georgia^{[8][9][10][4]}
• Report on illiteracy in the U.S.
• Interview with Ethel Kennedy the widow of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
• Essay by Andy Rooney on "What Jesus Christ looked like?"^[11]

• "The World of '68" - film montage directed by Chuck Braverman Stills and films offer a review of the news events of the past year.^[13]
• Interview with Vice President-elect Spiro Agnew by Mike Wallace
• Profile of the Smothers Brothers comedy duo, interview by Harry Reasoner including films taken while their The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was produced. Review of comics Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.
• "The Most Dangerous Man in Europe" - Former Nazi SS colonel Otto Skorzeny relates how he headed the team that spirited Mussolini out of Italy to Germany in September 1943. Interviewed by Robert Trout.

• Report on Middle East tensions between Israel and regional Arab neighbors, filmed in Israel and Lebanon.
• "Essay on Whiskey" - how whiskey is made and consumed in America
• "Enzymes"

• "Cottage for Sale" - Interview with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor with a tour of their country home outside Paris which is for sale.
• "Hijacking" - Report on the current wave of airline hijackings with interview of Assistant Attorney General Will R. Wilson, John Fitzgerald, coordinator of Cuban affairs Division of State Department and Oscar Bakke, associate administrator for aviation safety for the FAA.^[17][18][19]
• "Viewpoint" Reactions to the CBS News Special "The Savage Heart: A Conversation with Eric Hoffer" from Jan. 28, 1969.^[20][21] Opinions by Grover Cleveland Hall, Marya Mannes, William F. Buckley, Jr., and Roy Innis^[17]
• ""Why People Murder" - Houston Police Department homicide division on murder statistics and causes of murders
• Andy Rooney comments on female fashion designs and the mini-skirt.

• The Welfare Mess: Country Style"
• "The Billion Dollar Ski Boom" - CBS Sports commentator Heywood Hale Broun examines the surging popularity of skiing in the U.S. and on the large expense needed to finance the hobby.
• "Daniel Cohn-Bendit" - interview conducted in Frankfurt, with 23-year-old German student activist "Danny the Red" Cohn-Bendit, who discusses the French student revolt of 1968, his personal philosophy and his candid opinions on LBJ, President Nixon, Martin Luther King and Karl Marx. Interview by Mike Wallace.
• Report on heavy snowstorms in New York City of February 1969.

• "Carnegie Hall for the Hip" - Report on The Fillmore rock auditorium in San Francisco.
• "An Essay on Ugly."
• Analysis of President Nixon's recent news conference.
• Report on a group of Japanese who toured Pearl Harbor.

• "Welfare in the City"
• "Palm Beach with Charlotte Curtis."
• Profile of Atty. Gen John Mitchell.
• Report on an old-timers' baseball game

• "The Richest Man in the World?" - Interview with multi-billionaire H. L. Hunt, who discusses his conservative ideas on politics and women, philanthropy, and why he feels that Calvin Coolidge was the last great U.S. President ("Money Talks")
• "The Heroin Epidemic" Report on heroin addiction in the U.S.
• "Black, German AND Illegitimate" - Report on fatherless German war babies
• Reflections on the death of Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Interview with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt.
• "Why Man Creates" - Saul Bass's animated film on the development of human creativity.
• "Negative Income Tax"
• "Nudity in the Arts"

• "Tora Tora, Tora " - the war film Tora! Tora! Tora! sparks controversy with Hollywood's use of armed forces men and equipment for movie productions including the Navy ship USS Yorktown and nine other ships during the Vietnam War. The Navy request was initially denied by Phil G. Goulding, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs^[24]
• "The Clio Awards" - Highlights from the annual awards presentation which honors the past year's best commercials, with excerpts from nominated ads.
• Report on American draft resisters who have found a refuge in Canada, focusing on four young men now living in Ontario; in interviews, they discuss the reasons why they left the U.S., their feelings on Vietnam and American politics, and their new way of life; also interviewed is a University of Waterloo professor who aids draft resisters and military deserters in adjusting to their new lives.

• Report on the war between Biafra and Nigeria, featuring a look into the causes and possible solutions to the conflict. Included are interviews with political and military leaders from both nations, among them Biafra's Gen. Philip Effiong.
• Report on a vaccine for German measles.
• Films of a production of Fiddler on the Roof performed by Black and Puerto Rican young people in New York City.

• "The Death of Venice" - Examination of the beautiful Italian city's plight as it sinks into the sea.
• "American Detention Camps" - Report on the establishment of various detention centers in the U.S. and on the associated controversy
• Interview with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, focusing on how response to youths' cries for more freedom of expression. Interviewer by Sir Fitzroy MacLean British journalist and former British liaison officer to Tito's World War II partisans.
• Excerpts of Hair, the musical from a Yugoslavian production at Atelje 212 in Belgrade.^[26][27]

• In a conversation telecast on Philadelphia's WCAU-TV, Harry Reasoner and his son Stuart discuss the youth rebellion and generation gap; topics include the seriousness with which young people approach the world's problems and the Establishment's attitudes and systems concerning morality and ethics.
• "German Gas Warfare" - Rebroadcast of 10/8 & 10/22/68: A look at U.S. efforts to develop a weapons system potentially more dangerous than our nuclear arsenal.

Rebroadcast of three segments:

• Interview with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (Repeat S01E11 from February 4, 1969)
• "Money Talks" - Interview with H.L. Hunt (Repeat S01E15 from April 1, 1969)
• "Essay on Whiskey" (Repeat S01E10 from January 21, 1969)