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Sharswood, part 9: What the 60 Minutes report documented
The national broadcast preserved the Miller family’s voices and the evidence trail. Its 2026 update should not be mistaken for a newly filmed investigation.
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- The report first aired on May 15, 2022.
- CBS updated and reran the story on September 6, 2026.
- The embedded video is the official 60 Minutes YouTube upload.
In this story
A local family told the story nationally
Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes report brought together Fred Miller, Karen Dixon-Rexroth, Dexter Miller, Sonya Womack-Miranda, Marian Keyes, other relatives, historian Karice Luck-Brimmer, preservation researchers, and members of the Thompson family. The program followed both the family’s discovery and the physical investigation of the older dwelling.
Its strongest value is the record of people explaining what the discovery meant to them. The broadcast does not replace deeds, census images, architectural reports, or cemetery work; it shows how those forms of evidence converged in one family’s understanding of home and ancestry.
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CBS states that the story first aired on May 15, 2022. The current transcript was updated on September 6, 2026 and includes a short account of developments since the original broadcast, including the Foundation and the family’s community programming.
The September 2026 page is therefore an updated version of earlier reporting, not a wholly new investigation filmed in 2026. Any article, newsletter, or social post should preserve both dates so viewers know which scenes and interviews come from 2022 and which sentences were added later.
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Current page updated September 6, 2026 and explicitly identifies the original May 15, 2022 publication. Checked September 8, 2026.
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