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♪ ♪ good morning. i'm jane pauley and this is "sunday morning." it's been well over two years since haiti's president was assassinated, and more than seven years since its citizens last went to the polls. result, utter chaos. why haiti? and what now? that's where we'll start off morning with martha teichner. of course, today is st. patrick's day. around the world, more than 70 million people have irish roots. pretty impressive when you population of ireland is only

about 5 million. conor knighton takes us back to the emerald isle. >> reporter: it feels like everyone is irish on st. patrick's day. 30 million americans actually claim irish ancestry. >> it's such a special experience to tell them something about ancestors that have directly affected them today. >> reporter: coming up on "sunday morning," we pay a visit to epic, the museum of irish emigration in dublin. millions tune in to watch him every night as he hosts "jeopardy!." one of the longest running game shows on television. luke burbank has some questions for the man with all the answers. ken jennings. ♪ >> from the stage --ly. the greatest "jeopardy!" player of all time, and now he hosts the show. but he is hoping you won't hold that against him. >> something about that kind of

success seemed not just morally suspect, but unseemly, you know. bad manners to be famous. >> reporter: how rude. >> get over yourself. >> who is ken jennings? later on "sunday morning." it's the novel that made you cry, which became the movie that made you cry. david pogue talks with nicolas sparks as "the notebook" opens on broadway. ♪ >> reporter: you didn't cry, did you? >> yeah, i got a little -- you get a little weepy. >> the actors were crying. >> the audience was crying. >> everyone was crying. >> reporter: it's a story of everlasting love. >> also a story of memory and how we became who we are at this moment. ♪ sadness and joy ♪ >> reporter: we'll go behind the curtain with nicolas sparks ahead on "sunday morning." also this morning, lee cowan

goes trolling for trolls with spectacular results. tracy smith is in conversation with christine blasey ford who talks about the toll contacted for speaking out. plus, mark whitaker at a sculpture park dedicated to telling a story of slavery. we'll go fishing for koi with elizabeth palmer. a story from steve hartman. a sip of bourbon with jim axlerod and more. this is "sunday morning," march 17th, 2024, and we'll be back in a moment. ♪

haiti has been without any sort of elected government for more than a year now, and this past week things appeared to go from bad to much wose. we've asked martha teichner to take the long view. >> reporter: how could haiti even get to the point that its capital, port-au-prince, is paralyzed by armed gangs? or at least part of the answer, take a look at its histor. you may find it hard to believe. the island haiti shares with the dominican republic, columbus

landed here in 1492 and called it hispaniola, claiming for spain. but haiti eventually became a fabulously rich french colony. its plantations producing much of the world's coffee and sugar. in 1791, the enslaved africans who worked those plantations revolted. what followed was a 13-year bloodbath. then, on january 1, 1804, haiti traded the french flag for the own. it became the first black republic and abolished slavery. but in 1825, the french came back with gun boats and an outrageous demand. reparations. haiti had to borrow the money with interest. yes, from france. >> $20 billion at a minimum. >> reporter: today's money?

>> yes. >> reporter: jake johnston is the author of "aid state" an in analysis of the effects of foreign intervention in haiti. >> they wanted to be paid to recognize haiti. paid for their lost property, the enslaved population that had become an independent nation. >> it has a huge impact knowing that you gain your freedom, but you had to pay those who were holding you as a slave. >> reporter: monique clesca is a haitian journalist and activist. >> it is a collective scar that we carry. so it has a major impact because we could have been better. >> reporter: instead of building roads and schools and hospitals, haiti was paying off that debt, until 1947. >> how important an factor has the united states' presence and involvement been? >> well, i think it's hard to

overstate. >> the united states marines land in haiti to battle haitian bandits. >> reporter: in 1915, the united states sent in the marines, took control of haiti's finances, and occupied the country for 19 years. it has continued to play political puppeteer ever since. just one example. the united states backed the duvalier dictatorship. francois "papa doc" duvalier seized power in 1956, declaring himself president for life. he eliminated opposition with the help of his murderous goon squad called the toncontin international airport -- >> one reason they ended up being a supporter of the duvalier dictatorship, they were a bulwark against communism in the hemisphere.

>> reporter: when papua new guinea died, his son jean-claude, just 19, known as baby doc, declared himself president for life. but was forced into exile in 1986, taking with him by some estimates as much as $800 million stolen from the people. of the poorest country in the western hemisphere. haiti actually held free and peaceful elections in 1991. a former priest was elected president and was overthrown just a year later. so much for stability. then, in january 2010, haiti's worst earthquake in 200 years destroyed much of port-au-prince and killed, according to haitian officials, more than 200,000 people. in the chaotic aftermth, dozens

of gangs emerged. >> they were working hand in hand with politicians. >> reporter: so you can't separate the gang situation from the political situation? >> no. not at all. the gangs became empowered. the gangs were validated, armed, et cetera, by the economic and the political elites. >> reporter: since the assassination of president jovenel moise in 2021, arielle has served as the unpopular unelected prime minister. his resignation hinges on the establishment of a transitional council. meanwhile, the gangs united under barbecue, making political demands. so what now with the united states and other regional

players trying to broker the transition? it seems that haiti has rarely been in the hands of haitians? >> you are absolutely right, and it is a battle that we are waging to confirm, to affirm our sovereignty. >> reporter: haiti's history has been described as a series of crises with brief periods of hope and peace. will this be one of those periods? or the same old story, doomed to failure? >> my heart tells me that it is 50/50, but my head tells me it may be 80% might fail. but what i know is we got to take the chance because we're dying every day.

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millions of us will celebrate st. patrick's day today, but its meaning resonates most among those who trace their roots to the emerald isle. conor knighton sent us a postcard from dublin. ♪ >> reporter: the ruins of dthe castle tower. while its been centuries since anyone lived here, this american tour group has come to imagine what life might have been like when their ancestors called this home. >> does that change the experience? >> yes, to know that we have had relatives that probably rode horses out here. that's exciting. maybe lived in the castle. who knows? >> reporter: more than 30 million americans claim irish ancestry. worldwide, more than 70 million people have irish roots. yet, the current population of ireland is only around 5 million people.

and the capitol city of dublin, the epic museum tells the story of irish emigration. that's emigration with an "e." the waves of citizens who moved abroad. >> o's other countries don't have museums dedicated to everyone who left that country. is that the story of ireland? >> it is a history of emigration. we were the only country in europe to have more people at the start of the 19th century than at the end. >> reporter: catherine healy is an historian in residence at epic. exhibits at the museum highlight the achievements of those with irish ancestry. athletes, entertainers, inventors, and authors. everyone from cedric gibbons, designer ever the oscar statue, james hoban, who designed the white house. >> it's inspired by some of the jo gorgen architecture.

>> reporter: 23 occupants, from president james buchanan to joe biden. >> the poor irish, i'm at home. >> reporter: john f. kennedy with the first irish catholic president. >> this is not the land of my birth, but i hold the greatest affection. >> reporter: in 2011, president obama traveled to the irish village of moneygall where his great, great, great-grandfather lived before setting sale for america. >> he left during the great hunger. so many irish did to seek a new life in the new world. ♪ >> reporter: the peak of emigration in the famine of the mid 1800s. over a ten-year period, the failure. the potato crop prompted a quarter of the irish population to set sail for america. >> it was a journey of desperation. people having no ability to have

a livelihood in ireland. >> reporter: but the museum tells that story. it also tells the story of cherished exports from the irish pub to irish music. >> have you done some research yourself? >> reporter: for an additional fee, it's possible to book a session with a professional genealogist at the affiliated irish family history center. my great-grandparents came from ireland in the early 1900s. >> i worry my great, great, great uncle was the town streaker or something like that. >> no. >> reporter: there is no skeletons in the closet? >> no. >> reporter: kayleigh bealin uncovered lots of fun stories from a record of dog licenses. >> your ancestors had so many pet dogs. >> reporter: to the origin of cra craig chriochain. >> it means descent ent of chriochain which is a short person, which i thought was

funny. >> reporter: you are related to leprechauns? >> yeah. >> reporter: although it turns out there was at least one troublemaker in the family. >> your second or third great grad dad brought to court for the crime of herding two head of cattle on the public road. i think public road is a strong use of the word there. >> reporter: i will be free to leave the country. >> you will be free. you have to pay sixpence. >> reporter: epic stands for every person is connected. you can find irish links everywhere. the museum recently hosted an exhibition on irish migration to the caribbean. while st. patrick's day parades around the world are full of people proud of their irish heritage, she says it's taken time for the irish to view emigration as something to celebrate. >> for a long time our diaspora has been overlooked and there has been a lot of shame associated with emigration. that tragedy is still there because we're not just talking about famine emigration here.

we are talking about single mothers who have to leave this country and because of the shame associated with having a child outside of marriage. >> reporter: epic was created to highlight the positive impacts of irish emigration. the walls feature a quote from ireland's former president, mary robinson. >> after all, emigration isn't just a chronicle of sorrow. it's also a powerful story of contribution and adaptation. >> reporter: centuries of giant contributions all coming from a small island. you know that thing your family does? yeah, that thing. someone made it a thing, way back in the day.

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turns out some trolls get a bum rap, and lee cowan has proof. ♪ >> reporter: unlike happy-go-lucky leprechauns, whom we celebrate today, their close cousins, the trolls, are usually depicted in a less flattering light. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: ugly, brainless, with big noses and fat bellies. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: they are mythical beings that have gone the way of the fire-breathing dragon, or

have they? if seeing really is believing, what are we to make of this? what about her? what about him? >> he is a happy troll. but he is a serious troll. you need to take responsibility. that's why he is pointing, you. is it your fault? are you one of the good guys or one of the evil guys. >> reporter: oscar the bird king is a fairy tale just coming to life when we visited these woods on vashon island near seattle. the architect danish artist thomas dambo wanted to draft this 10,000-pound creature to be both imposing and inviting. >> he felt a little bit too human before. he has the big branches and fur and big beard. i don't want people to think it's like human. >> reporter: right, right. he looks like a troll now, that's for sure. >> yeah. >> reporter: oscar isn't the

first, nor will he be the last. dambo has built more than 100 trolls in 17 countries, and no two are alike. each has its own story. like mr. jack lumber in denmark. hector el protector in puerto rico. anna green in germany. his way of the bird king project is one of the latest in a series of troll sculptures he has been commissioned to build here in the u.s., which includes benny the beard fisher in michigan, rita the rock planter in colorado, pia the peacekeeper in washington state. giants they are, but gentle ones. they aren't here to terrify, he says. they are here to teach. specifically, about the one mistake we humans can't seem to outgrow. our ever growing piles of trash. >> everything that i do is

showing people that trash can have value. so that trash doesn't need to be a negative thing that is suffocating our world, but it can be a beautiful thing we can build our common world with. a pile like this, that's a dream come true. it's like a regular toy story. yep, his trolls are mostly made from recycled wood. scraps that might otherwise end up in a landfill or just be burned. discarded shipping pallets are his favorite. a typical troll needs about five tons of them. >> the world is running out of resources and we are drowning in our own trash. those two things are each other's solution. that's what my art is about. >> reporter: dambo has been dumpster diving since he was a kid in denmark. he says he always had a peculiar interest in what other people would throw away and how he might repurpose it. >> you can build anything out of anything if you just are creative. >> reporter: so why trolls?

well, dambo says trolls with always been protecters of our forests, and to create these giant guardians in the woods out of material that used to be forest itself, he hoped it would send a powerful but accessible message. >> do most people get it? >> most people get it. people, they want to be a part of something fun and something beautiful and a positive change. pretty much everybody wants to be a part of that. >> reporter: that's why everywhere he goes he enlists armies of local volunteers to help. like long-time vashon island resident greg martin. what have you gotten out of this whole experience personally? >> just an expansion for all of us to look at a different way of doing stuff. a different way of looking at stuff. >> reporter: martin, who is one of oscar's many caretakers. dambo and his team move on and leave oscar behind. >> i'm okay that they don't last

forever. that's the beauty of wood. it grows out of the ground and it decomposes straight into the ground again. >> reporter: but perhaps more than anything, what thomas dambo hopes you will take away from his not so trashy trolls is the journey to find them. some he flat-out hides, giving only a few clues to where his fans can find them. but it's in that, he says, that his trolls show their true magic. luring us humans out into the woods where there is just the wind and the whispers of nature. that's when he says his trolls speak the loudest. >> i think it's good to remind people that there is soil and sun and water and trees and that's a big joy for me to give that to people. >> reporter: all troll tales do have an element of truth. so, the next time you're out in the woods, look up at what might be looking down on you and find out just what you believe.

don't touch me! i hate you! i hate you! why don't you just go! leave! go! go! >> it was a much loved film based on a best-selling novel. get out your hankies. "the notebook" opened this past week on broadway. david pogue talks about the stories enduring appeal with author nicolas sparks. >> reporter: every broadway show has a souvenir stand for things like t-shirts and mugs. but at a new musical that opened this past week, they are selling

this. >> i guess this is one of the hottest little merch on broadway, according to articles that i have been reading. it is a tissue box with the logo of the play. >> reporter: nicolas sparks has published 24 romance novels, all bestsellers. they have sold 130 million copies and have been made into 11 movies. but the very first one he published is his biggest seller of all, "the notebook" from 1996. >> i wrote you every day for years. >> you wrote me? >> yes. it wasn't over. it stale isn't over. >> reporter: the 2004 movie version put young ryan gosling and rachel mcadams on the map and became a romance classic. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: now and it's a broadway musical. >> of course, i was here on

opening night. it was unbelievable. >> reporter: you didn't cry, did you? >> yeah. you get a little weepy. >> reporter: he is not alone. did you cry at all? >> um, from the jump. >> did you cry? >> i did. unelegant eye. >> reporter: you took a curtain call with the cast on opening night. was that your first time on a broadway stage? >> yeah. shoot. i mean, it was my first time backstage. i am looking around like a tourist. >> reporter: every version of "the notebook" has employed a framing device as the end of his life approaches, husband noah reads from a notebook to his wife allie, who has alzheimer's disease. it's the notebook containing the story of their own decades-long love. ♪ take me back one day ♪ ♪ take me back ♪ >> that was the story inspired by my ex-wife's grandparents. they met young, separated for

years, she comes back, finds her first true love and they live long and happy and in their final years age begins to take its toll. >> hey, i'm noah. >> i'm ali. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: is there any shame in hearing this show described as a tear-jerker? >> i don't mind it. if we are the play that makes you feel things/cry, then there are worse boxes to be in. >> reporter: playwright bekah bruntsetter wrote the script and songwriter ingrid michaelson wrote the music and lyrics. i spoke to them on opening night. >> as we normally don't wear matching blazers and have this much makeup on. >> reporter: it's the first time either of them has worked to on a broadway show. >> i thought, i can do this. i can figure out how to make people who are going to come with their arms folded unfold their arms, basically. >> let's all laugh. >> you know? and kind of combining those two things constantly, because laughter and tears are just so

right there next to each other all the time. >> reporter: in the musical, three pairs of actors play the couple at three different ages. ♪ ♪ >> from the very beginning, we knew we wanted three alis and three noahs. you can have an older version of a character watching theirselves, especially since we are dealing with memory so much and losing memory and fragmented memory, that having other versions of themselves on stage were really helpful. >> reporter: no nicolas sparks romance novel has ever included a black main character, but in the musical noah and ali seem to change races fluidly at different ages. >> i love you, ali. >> reporter: i asked codirectors michael greif and schele williams about that. >> it's not the story.

you are seeing the spirit of who they are. you are seeing not only their essence, but their experience. for someone like me who grew up looking at theater through a window and never through a mirror, being able to see myself on stage is powerful. >> it grew out of how do we do this in the best possible way. unique and i think wonderful casting idea. >> reporter: many on the creative team relate deeply to the dementia depicted in the show. >> my mom has alzheimer's. so when i read the story, it really spoke to me. >> i have a grandfather who had alzheimer's. i had witnessed it firsthand. and it seems like pretty much everyone has a grandparent or an aunt or uncle or sibling, you know. so it's -- >> some form of dementia. >> yeah. >> reporter: does it affect the writing? >> yes. >> yeah. >> i mean, all of that is in there from us. >> reporter: yeah. ♪ ♪

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in 2018, she stepped forward to tell her story of assault at the hands of a supreme court nominee. now christine blasey ford is speaking out again. she is "in conversation" with our tracy smith. >> reporter: the waters around lighthouse field state beach in santa cruz, california, are beautiful to look at. but surfing here is something else. it takes a certain kind of fortitude to jump in. the waves are great, but the currents are strong and the rocks are sharp and unforgiving. is there a part of you that wants to get in there? >> when i see it, i feel a little bit of an urge to go in the water, like if i had my stuff on, i would want to take a

dip and dive in. >> reporter: christine blasey ford has surfed this break countless times on good days and bad, and as in this photo, she knows just what it takes to summon up your courage and hurl yourself off a cliff. >> i am here today not because i want to be. i am terrified. >> reporter: in september 2018, ford, a ph.d. in psychology, a professor at palo alto university, and a mother of two, jumped straight into the maelstrom of american politics. she alleged that justice brett kavanaugh, who was then a nominee for a seat on the supreme court, had sexually assaulted her in the summer of 1982, when she was 15 and he was 17. >> i was pushed on to the bed and brett got on top of me. he began running his hands over my body and grinding into me. >> reporter: the members of the senate judiciary committee hung on her every word, as did nearly

10 million viewers on cable tv. >> this confirmation process has become a national disgrace. >> reporter: a short time later, an emotional brett kavanaugh testified that ford had it all wrong. >> if the party described by dr. ford happened in the summer of 1982 on a weekend night, my calendar shows all but definitively that i was not there. i categorically and unequivocally can deny the allegation against me by dr. ford. i henever had any sexual or physical encounter of any kind with dr. ford. >> reporter: re reached out to justice kavanaugh for this story but got in response to a request made through the court. let's go over some of the things that the supporters of justice kavanaugh have said. one of the big things that they said is why is it that no one can recall that night in the way that you recall it, that there was that party.

>> there were so many parties in high school. this was a pretty unremarkable one. his friends not being able to recall that evening, i guess just doesn't surprise me because everyone sort of got together almost every night to hang out together. >> reporter: do you think that that lends weight to his side of the story, that no one can remember it? >> it seems like they think that for sure and that that was how they were portrayed that night. >> reporter: but to you? do you think that bolsters his side of the story of that no one can remember it? >> no, to me it doesn't bolster his story. for survivors out there, you know it happened to you. even if no one of believed you or no one thought it happened or no one saw it. there are people that are assaulted all the time where no one else was even there, and

that doesn't mean it didn't happen. >> reporter: and her testimony drew strong reactions from both sides. were you naive about how the process worked? >> i like to use the word idealistic. maybe i was naive for sure about how the consequences and how bad it would be after i testified. >> reporter: what's more, a memo release by committee chair charles grassley's office in november 2018 said that the senate and subsequent fbi investigations found, quote, no evidence to substantiate any of the claims of sexual assault made against justice kavanaugh. what was it like for you to see that? it goes out there. you know there were people on television saying, look, this exonerates justice kavanaugh. >> i was devastated when that report came out. i was really, really upset. that was a really difficult

period that, i think, was the beginning of sort of the darkest times for me. >> reporter: things got dark, indeed. not only was her moment in the national spotlight deeply traumatizing, it also brought death threats credible enough to for force her and her family out of their home and into a hotel for months. what kind of threats were you getting? >> gosh. i want to see you six feet under. i want tee to see you 12 feet u, a lot of those. i hope you get cancer. i hope you die. i give you a year. glad you have two kids because we have two opportunities. and all of the letters like that, like they would have such similarity to them that it felt like do these people know each other? because how could the wording be that similar? >> reporter: and they were threatening your family? >> yes. >> reporter: your kids? >> mm-hmm, yeah. especially the first born. that seemed to be a thing.

we'll take your first born. >> reporter: that's more than scary. >> it's still scary. it still scares me. >> reporter: in fact, it got so bad that the family needed round the clock security and, to this day, they still use guards for some public appearances. >> to go out to an event though for a night or to accept an award or something like that, maybe it's only, like, five to 10,000. >> reporter: five to 10,000 a night if you want to go out? >> yeah. >> reporter: she writes about it in a new book, "one way back," including her struggle to decide how or if to come forward at all. >> it seems like you have kind of gotten back to if not normal, at least safety, feeling comfortable. >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: why write this book and put yourself out in the spotlight again? >> so this book is really for the letter writers and it's dedicated to them. >> reporter: she says most of the mail she got was letters

from supporters and survivors of sexual assault, so many that they have taken up the dining room in her home to, and they just keep coming. >> we have made it through 30,000 so far, and all i know is there is more than that left to go. >> reporter: she says the letters prove to her that even though justice kavanaugh was ultimately confirmed, her testimony meant something. >> i think it would be impossible to read the letters and not, even if you just read ten of them, and think that it didn't matter. >> reporter: do you feel like you're back to normal? >> um, no. i think i gave up on the idea of normal quite a while ago. but i'm in a new normal, a new chapter, probably a new book. >> reporter: christine blasey ford says that when she first came forward, she didn't know how rough the waters would be, but for her it was the only way. do you regret coming forward?

>> not at all. >> reporter: why not? >> i grew up in d.c. i revered all of those institutions. to me, the supreme court was sort of the ultimate. that's where our very best people are, and i felt like the choice of saying nothing was more uncomfortable, that i would have to live with not saying anything about it.

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grade success. he started a couple years ago and at first the other kids didn't know what to think. >> every time i saw him, i was just, like, okay. >> i'm, like, why is he dressing up? >> reporter: james knew he stood out. did you just decide one day, i don't care what other people think? >> yeah, i don't need to look like them anymore. i can be who i want to be. >> reporter: in any school, a decision like that can go a few different ways. you can be accepted for who you are, ostracized for who you aren't, or, in very rare circumstances, you can become a trendsetter. >> it just kind of started. >> then more people started to do it. >> because it looked fun. >> now people absolutely love it. >> reporter: today, once week, chelsea elementary kids put on their finest for dapper wednesday. it's not a dress code. it's not because some adult said

so. it's because the children chose so. >> nice dresses! >> reporter: teacher dean was an early adopter and now an avid advocate. >> stop! look at this. you look awesome! >> being dressed up, kids are different. i think it's a self-esteem thing. and then it carries with them all the way through the day. >> all right. >> reporter: the kids agree. told me they love how it feels. >> i am a little itchy, but it's fine. >> reporter: figuratively speaking. >> it feels like i'm not a kid anymore. it made me feel like i was ready for the day. >> feels like i'm, like, a president. >> reporter: when james started all off this, he had no idea the impact. what's it like to be a trendsetter? >> it feels so nice. >> reporter: but he doesn't think every kid should wear suits. just whatever suits them. >> just wear what they want to wear. >> reporter: self-confidence, always a good look.

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"jeopardy!." luke burbank catches up with ken jennings. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the category is famous jennings. after being expelled from jamaica in 1716, this privatier became the unofficial governor of the pirate republic of nassau. >> i don't know this. it's one of my pirate forefathers named jennings? >> reporter: he may not know his trivia quite like he used to. >> this is the ravages of time we are witnessing? >> like watching me turn to dust and blow away in a chill wind. >> ken jennings! you are the champion! the greatest of all time. >> reporter: but that's okay if he is a little rusty because these days jennings gets to see all the answers before he heads out on stage as the now host of his favorite tv show ever. >> it's the plot of "charlie and the chocolate factory" i guess, retiring leader of a franchise

takes, you know, five little boys and girls to see which one really loves his chocolate the most. and i was the one that didn't get sucked up the pipe or whatever. >> alex trebek! >> reporter: his wonka, long time legendary host alex trebek who guided the show for decades. a show that turns 60 this year. as a young mormon kid living in korea, jennings said watching armed forces television was his favorite way to pass the time. and his favorite thing to watch? game shows, of course. >> i think it was actually the game play itself. it was a version of the world with well defined rules where you could watch a few of them and understand the format and as a kid dealing with a confusing world, game shows are different. questions get answered almost immediately. for a right answer, there is a ping. for a wrong answer, an immediate buzz. it's not like life, which is messy. game shows are neat and fun and

easy. >> reporter: in college, instead of following his dreams of writing, he opted to become what he calls a bad computer programmer. figuring it was the safe choice. he married his sweetheart, mindy, started a family and thought that's how his life would go. >> i'm alex trebek and welcome to the "jeopardy!" contestant exam. >> reporter: on a whim, he took the "jeopardy!" contestant exam. >> i got the call a year later saying, hey, we'd like to have you on in three weeks. i freaked out. i watched the show intensely. standing up at home pretending it was a podium, mashing my thumb up and down on a fisher-price toy pretending it was a buzzer. my wife would keep scoring. it was a rocky training montage. >> a software engineer from salt lake city, utah, ken jennings. >> reporter: to this day, jennings says nothing compares to the nerves he felt under the lights and on camera that first

time he stepped on stage as a contestant. but then something amazing happened. >> in that first game i found that, like, years of listening to the clipped rhythms of alex trebek really helped. watching the show, standing up with my fake buzzer helped. i the timing right away. >> julia. >> what is new zealand? >> reporter: in that first game, the score was close, and it all came down to "final jeopardy." >> and i remember alex accepting my response. it was about the sydney olympics, who is marion jones. i had written down who is jones. alex pusses for a second, like, is that enough? so alex looks to the judges and gets the high sign and says, that's correct. i realize i'm going to be a "jeopardy!" champion for the rest of my life. it was an immediate rush of euphoria that's hard to explain. as good as the birth of my kids. i can say that now their teens and out of the house. it was an amazing moment. alex would wait. if they didn't know, he would be

like nope. >> reporter: that microsecond decision led to 74 straight victories, $2.5 million, game show immortality, and eventually and improbably the job of "jeopardy!" host. so i am standing at the might say altar of sorts. >> this is the telestrator where you can write down your name and "final jeopardy" response. >> reporter: why does it seem that so many highly intelligent people have such questionable handwriting on this show? is it something to do with the device? >> the pen got better. this is nicer than the version i was trying to write with. i am getting flashbacks just by being here. it's almost like there were two "jeopardy!" sets for me. this one and there is like a chasm between you and alex. >> reporter: jennings will admit to one possible advantage he might have in the job. his empathy for players.

because he has been there himself. still, alex trebek looms large. >> if i was at sea, i would think, what would alex do here? and often if was to do less. he had an amazing minimalist kind of light touch where he never wanted the focus to be on himself, which is such an unusual beautiful thing in show business. i feel like even now, i want to be alex trebek when i grow up because nobody's ever going to do that job as well as he did it. >> reporter: which brings us back to our game and a mistake i made earlier, which the judges caught, that the top of the story, i said they give jennings the answers before the game, but, of course, that's incorrect. they give him the questions. so where exactly did that come from? well, from "jeopardy!" creator merv griffin's then-wife julann, the story goes. >> yes. they are on a plane coming back from vation and he is coming up with game show ideas and she says do one of those quiz shows

like they used to have. he said we can't do those, they were crooked, giving the players the answers. she thinks about it and says, that's what you should do. give them the answer. and they'll come up with the question. he says, what do you mean? she says, now, 5280 feet. he says, what is a mile? and that's the birth of "jeopardy!" right there. >> reporter: the birth of a tv quiz show. more importantly, says jennings, the birth of something that in a small way has helped hold us americans together. at least for 30 minutes a night. and there is nothing trivial about that. >> the great and the odd thing about "jeopardy!" is it's kind of universally popular. old people like "jeopardy!." young people like "jeopardy!." red states, blue states. it's bizarrely universal. america still agrees that there is like a half hour every day where facts do matter, and we are allowed to adjudicate things as right or wrong actually based on science and history. and i do think that's an

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ago farmers began to breed them to bring out the colored markings. what began as a hobby became big business. japan exported almost $50 million worth of koi last year. >> it's almost like magic you can say to create a fish like this. >> reporter: president of laguna koi ponds of california and a judge at the japan all japan koi show in tokyo. basically, it's a fish beauty pageant that draws connoisseurs from all over the world. this yard-long female won best in show. when you were judging this, what were you looking for and what impressed you? size, i get it. >> it's a fish first. it has to have good body confirmation. you could say bone structure. >> of course, those colored splotches. >> the pattern needs to fit the fish like on the face area needs to be a cute face, maybe a hat or a beret, something cute and

unique. this is his face. this is where he greets you. this is what you first see and fall in love with, is their face. >> reporter: in winter, snow blankets the mud ponds of nishigata in northern japan with baby koi start out. but breeder shigeyoshi tanaka has moved them, now mature, safely indoors. are do you have a favorite? >> many favorite in here. >> reporter: in japanese, they are called nishikigoi, brocaded carp like swimming jewels. >> just try to such. >> reporter: they are simpler to admire than wrangle. >> she doesn't like you. >> reporter: she doesn't like me? she definitely knew a safe pair of hands. tanaka's koi are famous. a group of buyers from thailand have arrived to make an order. once upon a time, more koi customers were japanese. no longer. these days, many of the best fish will be shipped to the

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contributor mark whitaker tells us about a public space transformed to tell the story of slavery. >> you step off this boat and we go now through 400 years of history. >> that's right. >> reporter: in montgomery, alabama, between a maze of train tracks and the river, along a neglected plot of land has been transformed. >> artists have the ability to depict the humanity and the dignity of people even in the midst of something brutal and violent. >> reporter: it's now home to the freedom monument sculpture park, the vision of lawyer and social activist bryan stevenson. the 17-acre park set to open this month is filled with nearly 50 sculptures by world famous artists like kehinde wiley, simone leigh, and kwame akoto-bamfo. >> in this region, cotton plantations were everywhere. here you see generations.

>> yes, exactly. >> reporter: collectively evoking the history of slavery had america. >> it's a tough subject. it's a challenging subject. we wanted to use art to help people manage the weight of this history and engage in a more complete way with the lives of enslaved people. >> reporter: it's the latest project for stevenson, founder and director of the equal justice initiative, also based in montgomery. for more than 30 years, stevenson and his team have provided legal services to people on death row. to date, overturning more than 140 convictions and sentences. >> ten lashes. >> reporter: he says understanding the racial injustices of the present begins by reckoning with the tortured legacy of the past. >> as they say, the truth can set us free. i genuinely believe that there is something that feels more like freedom, more like equality, justice waiting for us in america. i don't think we will get there

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artifacts of slavery, like these 170-year-old plantation dwellings -- >> we documented dwellings where people were living in the same dwellings that parents were living until the 1990s. >> reporter: this whipping post. >> you see why it is so ominous. enslaved people would be chained on the hooks on the side and would be standing and then be beaten and lashed. >> reporter: with powerful works of artistic imagination, such as strike by artist hank willis thomas. >> i love this piece. it's so important. i could have never imagined there would be a place this meaningful for this work to exist. >> so, obviously, violence, resistance. what else were you trying to evoke? >> thinking about peace and resolution. in this case, the gesture of just stopping the brutality begins the opportunity for us to find peace. >> reporter: that theme of resilience continues down the pathway to the park's

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