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Preserving the history heritage and worksof electronic media 60 Minutes with lr correspondent Harry Reasoner producer Don Hewitt and correspondent Mike Wallace debuted on CBS in 1968. Our principal mission is supporting the Library of American Broadcasting at the University of Maryland. Through its collections the LAB tells the extraordinary story of electronic medias first century and lights the way into the second. We encourage other efforts to preserve explore and document the history of electronic media and to enrich the publics understanding of the media and how it impacts the world.