This week on “Sunday Morning” (May 31)


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Hosted by Jane Pauley. 

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A 1954 portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe. 

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COVER STORY: Marilyn Monroe at 100 | Watch Video
She was, and remains, one of cinema’s most brilliant stars. Norma Jeane Baker, known to the world as Marilyn Monroe, died in 1962 at age 36, but she left a legacy of classic films, fashion, and a carefully-crafted celebrity image. To mark the centenary of her birth, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is launching an exhibition, “Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon.” Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with those studying the sex symbol’s life and career, and those who are preserving her film persona.

READ AN EXCERPT: “Marilyn: The Lost Photographs, The Last Interview”

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ALMANAC: May 31 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date.

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The Undercroft, constructed to support the weight of the Lincoln Memorial above. 

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U.S.: Unveiling the history beneath the Lincoln Memorial | Watch Video
For more than a century, one of Washington’s best-kept secrets lay beneath the Lincoln Memorial: the Undercroft, a soaring 50,000-square-foot foundation built to keep the landmark from sinking into D.C.’s swampy ground. Beginning in June, the public will be able to visit the space, now with a museum tracing the memorial’s history, from its construction to its role as a powerful stage for the civil rights movement. Correspondent Faith Salie goes underground.

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Anna Leigh Waters hits a forehand drive shot during the Ares Pickleball Slam 4 at Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, April 15, 2026 in Hollywood, Florida.

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SPORTS: Pickleball superstar Anna Leigh Waters (Video)
Professional pickleball is America’s fastest-growing sport, and its biggest star is Anna Leigh Waters. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti talks with the 19-year-old, whom many call the greatest pickleball player of all time.

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PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins.

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The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

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U.S.: Children “held like criminals” inside ICE detention center | Watch Video
More than 6,300 children under 18 – some as young as two months old, and almost all with no criminal record – have been arrested by federal immigration authorities during President Trump’s second term. Nearly half have been detained by ICE at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center outside San Antonio. “Sunday Morning” correspondent Jim Axelrod talks with a family that was held at Dilley for almost four months; and with Rep. Joaquin Castro, who is calling for Dilley to be shut down due to inhumane conditions, charges the Trump administration denies. 

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HARTMAN: Retired Atlanta principal returns to his school, as a handyman (Video)
Last September, David White retired after 33 years in education, the last 15 as principal of the Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta. But retirement didn’t sit well with him, and so he applied for a position at his old school, one further down the ladder than his last one. Steve Hartman reports on someone for whom no job – like cleaning gutters – is too small. 

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Jill Biden on life in, and after, the White House | Watch Video
In her new memoir, “View from the East Wing,” former first lady Jill Biden discusses her four years in the White House. She sits down with correspondent Rita Braver to talk about the legacy of her husband’s presidency, as well as the challenges that Joe Biden faced, from the January 6 insurrection by Trump supporters aimed at overturning his 2020 election victory, to a 2024 debate performance that led to Biden ending his reelection bid. She also discusses her husband’s prostate cancer diagnosis; his pardon of son Hunter Biden; and the demolition of the White House’s East Wing by President Trump to erect a ballroom.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Watch an extended interview with Jill Biden (Video)

READ AN EXCERPT: “View From the East Wing” by Jill Biden

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Christian Sarner, Noura Bitar and Viva Olsen, three of the human “books” that help comprise the Human Library. 

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WORLD: Checking out The Human Library | Watch Video
At a very special library in Copenhagen, Denmark, the “books” being checked out are actual human beings. The Human Library, founded 26 years ago, offers 30-minute conversations with living books on a wealth of subjects, and is now available in 80 countries (including the United States) and online. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook talked with the library’s co-founder Ronni Abergel, and checked out three unique books on the topics of schizophrenia, refugees, and Greenland.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: The Human Library is offering free library cards to 25,000 “Sunday Morning” viewers. Click here to find out how to get yours

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NATURE: Cactus blooms in Arizona (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday morning with cactus in bloom at the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale, Arizona. Videographer: Scot Miller.
     


WEB EXCLUSIVES:

GALLERY: Notable deaths in 2026
A look back at the esteemed personalities who’ve left us this year, who’d touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.


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MARATHON: “CBS Sunday Morning” stories about cars (YouTube Video)
From stick-shifts to self-driving cars, “CBS Sunday Morning” goes down the road of all things automotive. 

  • Celebrating the automotive world
  • Selling cars for a song
  • The road toward more driverless cars
  • Restoring classic cars in the classroom
  • Cars and art at the MoMA
  • Cars to make you swoon
  • Nature transforms junkyard cars into art
  • From 1956, a future vision of driverless cars

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