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>> pelley: earlier today i spoke with an eyewitness to the massacre, sean royster, who was at the club with a couple of friends.ñi we've seen pictures of people just picking up those who are wounded and running them down the street to the hospital, which is a couple of blocks away. did you see that? >> i saw some people. people, when they came out, i went to the left, some people went to the right. they came back this way. my best friend, when we got separated, he was advised... he was one of the people who got shot. apparently someone dragged him out and got him to an ambulance. that's when i finally got in touch with him. he's at the hospital now. another friend of mine was inside, as well. we're still looking for him. no one has heard from him since last night. his family has been calling. friends are calling. we haven't gotten in touch with him. everyone is really, really worried. >> pelley: cbs news is

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tonight "hamilton" is expected to make history at the tony awards. ♪ so what did i miss it has become almost impossible to land a ticket ♪ly kill your friends and family ♪ kill your friends and family ♪ >> rose: those lucky enough to get in never know who might be seated next to them. the president of the united states. >> at our sixth preview. it put my dreams to shame. ( laughs ) >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm leslie stahl. >> i'm bill whitaker. >> i'm charlie rose. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories tonight on "60 minutes." here's how it feels to have america's fastest lte network. ♪ here's how it feels to get fifty percent off most national carrier rates too. ♪

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>> pelley: last october, hurricane joaquin became the deadliest atlantic storm since sandy. but joaquin didn't even brush the u.s. coast. the most powerful atlantic cyclone in five years found its victims at sea-- 33 men and women onboard an american ship called "el faro." she was lost in the bermuda triangle, carrying a mystery to a grave deeper than the "titanic's", the greatest loss of a u.s. ship in 35 years. the national transportation safety board allowed us inside its investigation to show the enormous challenges. as we first reported in january, the n.t.s.b. intends to shine a light on what went wrong, for the families and for the future, true to "el faro's" name-- in english, "the lighthouse".

the u.s. naval ship "apache" carved a calm atlantic off the bahamas on the search for "el faro". she carried sophisticated diving technology under the command of captain gregg baumann, the navy's supervisor of salvage and diving. >> gregg baumann: unfortunately, in a lot of the things that we do, it does involve a tragedy like this. and it's just absolutely gut- wrenching. but at the end of the day, what it is that you really want to do is bring... bring answers back, bring... help bring closure to the families. >> pelley: but answers were obscured by extreme depth and only a rough idea of where to look. >> tom roth-roffy: this is the most difficult and complex investigation i've ever worked on in my 17 years with the national transportation safety board. >> pelley: tom roth-roffy is the lead investigator. all he had was the ship's last position, an oil slick, and a little debris at the surface.

what's your level of confidence that, at the end of all of this, you're going to know exactly why this ship sank? >> roth-roffy: we've experienced this sort of challenges before on other investigations, and we're hopeful that we'll be able to determine the cause of the sinking. >> pelley: this is "el faro", a typical medium-sized cargo ship, nearly 800 feet long. she was distinctive in a few ways-- she served the u.s. military in the iraq war; she was cut in half two decades ago and lengthened 90 feet; and she was 40 years old, an age when container ships are commonly sold for scrap. >> glen jackson: why was a ship 40 years old, why was it still being put in service? >> pelley: the families of the crew have many questions. glen jackson lost his brother jack. >> jackson: why was a ship that had been grandfathered in to not have the enclosed lifeboats being allowed to sail with just

the open hull, like whaling lifeboats, and expecting people to survive in that? >> pelley: tinisha thomas lost her husband shawn. >> tinisha thomas: i asked the company a question-- why did they allow the ship to continue to go into the storm? >> pelley: they didn't have to go into the hurricane? >> thomas: they did not have to go into the hurricane. >> pelley: september 29, "el faro" left jacksonville, florida, for puerto rico. captain michael davidson, who had a long career, intended to steer 65 miles south of the storm's predicted path. even in a hurricane, the ship could likely survive by using its turbine engine to keep the bow pointed directly into the waves, a ship's most survivable angle. but in 18 hours, joaquin spun into a category three and slid southwest toward "el faro". at 7:00 a.m., october 1, davidson made an emergency call to the ship's owner, tote maritime.

what do we know from the captain's last report? >> roth-roffy: we know that they had lost propulsion, that the engineers were unable to restart the main engine. we know that the vessel was listing about 15 degrees, and that one of the hatches had popped or had come open. >> pelley: he was taking on water? >> roth-roffy: correct. >> pelley: if the ship lost power, as the captain reported, you would expect her to turn sideways to the waves, and that is her most vulnerable position? >> roth-roffy: that's correct. >> pelley: the ship was approximately here, miles from the eye of the storm. the forecast predicted gusts of 150 miles an hour and seas of 30 feet. three weeks later, "apache" arrived in a search area of 198 square miles. chief sonar operator charles kapicka towed a side-scan sonar for five days when he spotted something you don't see in nature-- a right angle. >> charles kapicka: very right

angles, straight with a shadow. at this point i'm calling over, saying "i think this is something coming up you want to see." >> pelley: as the sonar scan slowly unfurled, the sound waves reflected the shape of a ship about 800 feet long. >> baumann: so, at that point, we talked with the n.t.s.b. and said, "we believe we have found it." but before we gave full confirmation, we then put our curv in the water, and then did a survey of the hull with moving and still photography. >> pelley: the cable-controlled underwater recovery vehicle can reach 20,000 feet. and these are the cameras? >> baumann: correct. so here's a pan and tilt camera. you got some lights right here. >> pelley: there is zero light at 15,000 feet. >> baumann: correct. >> pelley: total, utter darkness. so any light you have, you have to bring with you. >> baumann: absolutely. >> pelley: "apache" dropped curv 15,500 feet, nearly three miles. in the abyss, the temperature is

about 33 degrees. the pressure-- more than three tons per square inch. flurries of tiny marine life drift by, but fish are rare in the impenetrable darkness. this is where "el faro" came to rest-- upright, hull largely intact, her name mangled on the stern. her depth markings reported that this, the bow, had sunk 15 feet into the mud. her autopsy revealed a body that had been savagely beaten-- steel crushed, equipment collapsed. there was no sign of the 33 crewmembers. equipment and cargo litter the seabed. that's a microwave oven. and on the right, that's a printer. here is the top of a car with a sun roof, part of the cargo. what do we see there? >> rothroffy: that is a liquid storage container. and you can see that it's kind

of compressed, kind of imploded by the pressure of the sea. >> pelley: of its 400 cargo containers, only two remain on deck. and toward the stern, in the structure called "the house," where the crew lived and worked, curv discovered the most chilling evidence of the power of an unforgiving sea. >> roth-roffy: now, at the top of that white line there is... is the most surprising part of our video surveys. there's nothing above there. >> pelley: what should be there? >> roth-roffy: there should be two decks above that, the lower navigation bridge deck and the bridge deck. >> pelley: the two top decks had sheared off, including the bridge, where captain davidson would have been fighting the storm. they were nowhere near the ship. also missing, the voyage data recorder, like a so-called "black box" on an airplane. it had been bolted to the top of the bridge and was the one piece tom roth-roffy wanted most. >> roth-roffy: because it would

have told us what the crew was experiencing at the time in... in the minutes before the vessel sank, what they observed-- you know, the extent of the flooding, how they were responding; essentially, the events leading up to the actual catastrophe. >> pelley: you know, i'm curious-- when you first saw the video of the ship, what did you think? >> roth-roffy: we were looking, of course, for the... for the bridge and the voyage data recorder. and we... we got up to that level, and to see just openness was... is extremely moving and difficult to... it was a very big surprise to us to see that. >> pelley: moving in what way? >> roth-roffy: just to... to see the violence of the sea and the winds that... that would have had to occur to cause that kind of... i'm sorry. ...to cause that kind of an event.

>> pelley: because, certainly, there would have been people on the bridge... >> roth-roffy: yes. >> pelley: ...when that happened. >> roth-roffy: yes, quite certainly. and the shock and surprise to them as... as waves and whatnot... and they're just washed into the ocean. >> pelley: when you found out the news, how did you tell your son and daughter? >> tina riehm: how do you say anything to your kids? >> pelley: jeremie riehm left behind two children, 13 and 22, and his wife, tina. >> riehm: that was hard, because i guess i was in denial. i thought we had to tell my kids that it wasn't looking good for daddy's ship. and that was... that was terrible. it's, like, my chest collapsed, and we couldn't breathe. it was very... >> pelley: deb roberts lost her son, michael holland. deb, do you have an opinion on where responsibility lies in this?

>> deb roberts: i'm not a professional. i'm not an engineer, i'm a business manager. i think it was a series of unfortunate events. and without any other information, i truly blame it on hurricane joaquin. >> pelley: glen, in... in your estimation, where does the responsibility for this lie? >> jackson: squarely on tote maritime. and you got to understand, commercial shipping, they got to keep that ship moving to make money. and it... that's the whole horror of this tragedy is that 33 people died so that frozen chickens could be delivered on time in puerto rico. that's it. >> pelley: the safety board told us that tote maritime, the owner, is cooperating fully. tote declined to talk with us, other than to say it created a fund for the families and that "el faro" was regularly maintained. the ship had passed two inspections in the months before the accident. a week after we left, "apache"

located those two bridge decks about half a mile from the ship. the windows were blown out. the voyage data recorder was not there. but based on the captain's last message, investigator tom roth- roffy has a lead on the loss of propulsion. >> roth-roffy: i believe we have an understanding that it was actually the main turbine, the steam turbine that was lost. >> pelley: one theory is, in violent seas, the propeller might have been thrust out of the water, causing it to spin too fast and shut down the turbine. the families believe some of the crew are entombed in the ship, where they would have been struggling to get the turbine running. richard pusatere, the chief engineer, was most likely leading that fight. frank pusatere is his father. you believe that your son was in the engine room? >> frank pusatere: oh, most definitely. and until someone could prove me wrong, which would be the black

box or any other thing, or richard walking through that door... is that, when the ship listed and then capsized, i guarantee you they were injured. they were knocked out. and it... that was over. and they were all together. and that's... that's how i want to believe it. and until you can prove me wrong, scott, or anyone else, that's the way it's going to happen. and that's my report to the national transportation safety board. >> cbs money watch update sponsored by: >> reporter: good evening. president obama is encouraging the senate to pass a rescue package to ease puerto rico's debt. wal-mart says the store will

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remarkable performances, and more of the story of alexander hamilton himself, one of the most audacious and brilliant figures in american history. >> lin-manuel miranda: the thing about hamilton is he spoke in paragraphs. so the opening sentence of our show is this crazy run-on sentence. "how does a bastard orphan, son of a whore and a scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the caribbean by providence, impoverished in squalor, comma, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?" that's the question we're going to answer for the next two hours and 45 minutes. ♪ i'm past patiently waitin' ♪ i'm passionately smashin' every expectation ♪ every action's an act of creation... >> rose: in "hamilton," the answers come fast. >> alexander hamilton" ♪ first time i'm thinking past tomorrow! ♪ and i'm not throwing away my shot! >> rose: "my shot" is the show's anthem as hamilton arrives in new york city during the american revolution and sees his opportunity. >> cast: ♪ rise up! rise up, take a shot

♪ take a shot, not throwing away my shot! ♪ ♪ >> lin-manuel miranda: it took me a year to write "my shot," which is "hamilton"'s big "i want" song. >> rose: it took you a year. >> lin-manuel miranda: yeah. because every couplet needed to be the best couplet i ever wrote. that's how... that's how seriously i was taking it. >> rose: hamilton demands lots from you. >> lin-manuel miranda: yes >> rose: i mean, he is calling on your best. >> lin-manuel miranda: he's calling on my best. because he is the smartest guy in the room. so i have to write from the perspective of the smartest guy in the room when the other people are jefferson and washington and very smart guys. sir, entrust me with a command. >> rose: hamilton was front and center at nearly every major event in early american history. >> aaron burr: man, the man is non-stop! >> rose: he never became president, but had a bigger impact than many who did. >> george washington: let me tell you what i wished i had known.

>> rose: his mentor was george washington, played by chris jackson, who plucked hamilton out of the ranks and relied on him for 20 years. >> thomas jefferson: ♪ so what did i miss? ♪ what did i miss? >> rose: rapper daveed diggs plays thomas jefferson. he is hamilton's primary political opponent. >> jefferson: ♪ i've been in paris meeting lots of different ♪ ladies. i guess i basically missed the ♪ late '80s. >> hamilton: ♪ the bullets out your gun. ♪ the bullets out your gun. >> rose: the show reflects miranda's broad musical taste, but hip hop and rap define it. your music is hip hop. your music is rap. >> lin-manuel miranda: yes. and i also believe that form is uniquely suited to tell hamilton's story. because it has more words per measure than any other musical genre. it has rhythm and it has density. and if hamilton had anything in his writings, it was this density. >> angelica schyuler: ♪ i'm a girl in a world in which ♪ my only job is to marry rich

♪ my father has no sons, so i'm the one who has to social climb ♪ for one, so i'm the oldest and the wittiest ♪ and the gossip in new york city is insidious... >> rose: miranda wrote this for hamilton's sister-in-law, angelica schyuler, played by renee-elise goldsberry. >> schyuler: and we just happen to be in the greatest city in the world! >> rose: in "hamilton," women get equal time. >> schuyler sisters: ♪ work! work! ♪ angelica! work! ♪ work! eliza! ♪ work! work! ♪ and peggy! work! ♪ work! the schuyler sisters! >> hamilton: ♪ just you wait. alexander hamilton. >> rose: the idea to cast black and latino actors to play the founders was deliberate. miranda wanted to connect america then with america now. >> cast: ♪ you can never back down and never learn to take ♪ your time! ooohh! ♪ alexander hamilton alexander hamilton! >> rose: "hamilton" blossomed during an extended run at new york's public theater. ( fireworks ) >> rose: and was greeted with

fireworks over the hudson when it opened on broadway. >> lin-manuel miranda: i come up here in the opening number. >> rose: the show has already reached the loftiest heights. in ten months at the richard rodgers theater, "hamilton" has established itself as broadway's impossible ticket, fetching more than $1,000 a seat from ticket brokers. and those lucky enough to get a seat never know who might be next to them. the president of the united states. >> lin-manuel miranda: at our sixth preview. >> rose: the vice president of the united states. >> lin-manuel miranda: yes. it's put my dreams to shame. yeah. it's, it's super, super humbling and when you list those boldface names that have come to see the show, i see those as an opportunity to see the show with fresh eyes while i'm doing it. >> lin-manuel miranda: when dick cheney's sitting in the audience, i think what is he thinking when he hears the lyric, "history has its eyes on you." you know, when the president is here, what is he thinking as he sees george washington say, "i

have to step down the so the country can move on." >> rose: hamilton was a complicated figure: war hero, famous philanderer, political thinker, mud-slinging politician, and the nation's first treasury secretary. >> ron chernow: he creates the first fiscal system, first monetary system, first customs service, first central bank, on, and on, and on. >> rose: ron chernow wrote the biography that inspired the musical and is the show's historical advisor. >> chernow: here's the story of a penniless, orphaned, immigrant kid who comes out of nowhere and sets the world on fire. and his achievements were absolutely monumental. >> rose: you say he came out of nowhere. where is nowhere? >> chernow: he was born on the island of nevis. he spent his adolescence in st. croix. his father abandoned the family when alexander was 11. his mother died when he was 13. when he came to north america he didn't know a soul. >> lin-manuel miranda: this is inwood.

this is where i grew up. we were still playing dominoes on the street. >> rose: it is a story miranda could relate to. his father graduated college at 18 in puerto rico and moved to manhattan. luis miranda became a prominent political consultant. his wife luz, a psychologist. >> luis miranda: luz and i, we have always known that this kid was destined for greatness. >> rose: he's looking down. >> luis miranda: my only concern was always, "is his greatness gonna come with money, so he can survive forever?" >> rose: when did you see the musical talent? >> luis miranda: always. >> luz towns-miranda: from the time he was tiny-- >> luis miranda: always. >> luz towns-miranda: he loved to sing. he was always creating and he loved words and songs. >> rose: at five, miranda tested into hunter college elementary, a school for highly gifted children, where he told us sometimes, he felt like he did not belong. >> lin-manuel miranda: you know, i went to a school where

everyone was smarter than me. and i'm not blowing smoke, i, my, i was surrounded by genius, genius kids. what's interesting about growing up in a culture like that is you go, "all right, i got to figure out what my thing is. because i am not smarter than these kids. i am not funnier than half of them, so i better figure out what it is i want to do and work really hard at that. and because intellectually i'm treading water to, to be here. >> rose: so why do you think i'm sitting here talking to you and not sitting here talking to one of your classmates? >> lin-manuel miranda: because i picked a lane and i started running ahead of everybody else. so i, that's the honest answer. it was like, i was like, "all right this." >> rose: "this" was theater. he was in practically every school play. >> lin-manuel miranda: this is upstairs. this is really where we grew up. >> rose: the family didn't have a lot of money to see broadway shows. but they did collect cast albums. and miranda consumed them. camelot, follow me, the lusty month of may. >> lin-manuel miranda: lusty month of may.

the, all of the wordplay. "if you may take me to the fair. you'll thrash and bash him? i'll smash and mash him?" you will, you know, "he will be trouble, he will be rubble." ( laughs ) >> rose: "if ever i would leave you." >> lin-manuel miranda: "it would not be in springtime, knowing how in spring i'm bewitched by you so." >> rose: how can you have so many songs in your head? >> lin-manuel miranda: because i had a lot of time on my hands. >> rose: so many songs in your head. >> lin-manuel miranda: um, yeah, well these were. >> rose: do you have room for anything else in your head? >> lin-manuel miranda: i mean, i don't know my social security number. >> rose: he graduated from wesleyan university in 2002 with a degree in theater arts. that's where he began working on a show about his old neighborhood. >> ♪ lottery ticket, just part of the routine, ♪ everybody's got a job, everybody's got a dream. >> rose: it turned into miranda's first broadway show. "in the heights" won the 2008 tony for best musical. two months later, he picked up ron chernow's book during a vacation. >> lin-manuel miranda: this is what i knew from high school. i knew hamilton died in a duel with the vice president.

i knew he was on the $10 bill. but really, i was just browsing the biography section. it could have been truman. >> rose: and as you read it, what happened? >> lin-manuel miranda: i was thunderstruck. i got to the part where you know, a hurricane destroys st. croix where hamilton is living. and he writes a poem about the carnage and this poem gets him off the island. >> rose: you saw a rap artist in him. >> lin-manuel miranda: yes. i drew a direct line between hamilton's writing his way out of his circumstances and the rappers i had grown up adoring. it's biggie and jay-z writing about growing up in the marcy projects in brooklyn. it's eminem writing about growing up white in detroit. it's writing about that struggle and paradoxically your writing being so good it gets you out. i'm thrilled that the white house called me. >> rose: nine months after reading the book, he was invited to the white house to perform a song from "in the heights." he decided to take a risk. >> lin-manuel miranda: i am actually, working on a hip hop album. it's a concept album about the life of someone who i think

embodies hip hop, treasury secretary alexander hamilton ( laughter ) you laugh?! but it's true! >> rose: so when you did it, and you look at the video now. >> lin-manuel miranda: i see a terrified young puerto rican man. >> rose: do you really? >> lin-manuel miranda: terrified. because there's the leader of the free world, newly-elected leader of the free world. his entire family. there's biden. ♪ the $10 founding father without a father >> rose: but as he began the story, the room was mesmerized. >> lin-manuel miranda: ♪ moved in with a cousin ♪ the cousin committed suicide left him with nothing ♪ but ruined pride, something new inside, ♪ a voice saying "alex you gotta fend for yourself," ♪ he started retreatin' and readin' every treatise ♪ on the shelf there would have been nothin' ♪ left to do for someone less astute, ♪ he woulda been dead or destitute without a cent or ♪ restitution, started workin clerkin' for his late mother's ♪ landlord, tradin' sugarcane and rum and all the things he ♪ can't afford that video's a microcosm of my entire "hamilton" experience. i say, "hip hop, alexander hamilton," and everyone laughs.

and then, by the end, they are not laughing. because they are in it. because they have been sucked into the story, just like i got sucked into the story. when we finally drive the british away lafayette is waiting in chesapeake bay! >> rose: miranda's gift is bringing that story to today's audiences, reminding them whom to thank for building this nation. >> hamilton: how you say, "no sweat!" we are finally on the field. we have had quite a run. >> lafayette: immigrants. >> hamilton/lafayette: we get the job done. >> lin-manuel miranda: there's a lot of ways in, right? if you're scared of hip hop or you thought hip hop was not music for you, we are going to give you king george who sings a british-invasion-style song from the '60s. >> rose: that's a showstopper too. >> lin-manuel miranda: it's a showstopper. and it's a breath. >> king george iii: you say, the price of my love is not a price that you're willing to pay. >> rose: the british king, played here by jonathan groff, scoffs at the colonists and european immigrants trying to go it alone. >> king george iii: ♪ you'll be

back ♪ soon you'll see you'll remember you belong to me ♪ you'll be back time will tell ♪ you remember that i served you well ♪ oceans rise empires fall ♪ we have seen each other through it all! >> lin-manuel miranda: what's interesting about that role, and i didn't even really anticipate it when i was writing it, the king becomes the audience's surrogate. as they watch this country being formed in front of their eyes, and the king goes, "wait. you are really going to keep changing leaders? wait. what are you gonna do now the war is over?" >> rose: or you're going to come back. >> lin-manuel miranda: oh, you will be back. ( laughter ) he speaks to the country as if it was a girlfriend he didn't treat well. >> king george iii: ♪ 'cuz when push ♪ comes to shove ♪ i will kill your friends and family ♪ to remind you of my love.

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>> charlie rose: ten months ago, the broadway musical "hamilton" struck like a cultural earthquake, shaking up the worlds of theater, music and american history. it even seems to have altered our money, when the treasury department scrapped plans to remove alexander hamilton's face from the $10 bill. tonight, it is up for a record- breaking 16 tony awards. the man responsible for all this

is lin-manuel miranda, who plans to move on and leave the show this summer. he took stories from dusty history books and conjured up living, breathing human beings. >> lin-manuel miranda: i think we take great pains to knock all these guys off their pedestals. >> rose: yeah you do. >> lin-manuel miranda: this is washington impatient and yelling, "are these men with which i am to defend america?" which he did as he was fleeing new york. that's a quote. this is jefferson and hamilton squabbling. >> george washington: the issue on the table! >> rose: the tenor of their politics will sound familiar too. hamilton's debate with jefferson over how to pay off the revolutionary war debt was so intense, miranda stages it as a rap battle. >> washington: are you ready for a cabinet meeting? >> rose: with washington as referee. >> thomas jefferson: ♪ in virginia, we plant seeds in the ♪ ground. we create. ♪ you just want to move our money around. ♪ this financial plan is an outrageous demand and it's too ♪ many damn pages for any man to understand ♪ stand with me in the land of the free

♪ pray to god we never see hamilton's candidacy ♪ look! when britain taxed our tea, ♪ we got frisky imagine what's gonna happen when ♪ you try to tax our whiskey >> washington: thank you, secretary jefferson! >> alexander hamilton: ♪ thomas, that was a real nice ♪ declaration welcome to the present, ♪ we're running a real nation would you like to join us, ♪ or stay mellow, doing whatever the hell it is ♪ you do in monticello a civics lesson from a slaver, ♪ hey neighbor your debts are paid because you ♪ don't pay for labor¡ we plant seeds in the south ♪ we create!' keep ranting ♪ we know who's really doing the planting!! >> rose: hamilton's combative nature made him monumental enemies including presidents adams, jefferson, madison and monroe. all downplayed hamilton's achievements and diminished his legacy. the only one to fare worse in the eyes of history was hamilton's killer, vice president aaron burr. miranda gives him a starring role. burr becomes your narrator? >> lin-manuel miranda: yes.

>> rose: because you need what? >> lin-manuel miranda: well, one, i need balance. hamilton would be happy to narrate his own story. >> rose: in paragraphs and paragraphs. >> lin-manuel miranda: in paragraphs and paragraphs. and also, burr is the mirror image of hamilton. he's also orphaned at a young age. speeds through college. speeds through princeton in two years. starts at 13. age 13. >> rose: just as smart as hamilton? >> lin-manuel miranda: just as smart as hamilton. but every time hamilton says go, burr says stop. he's just cautious >> aaron burr: hamilton doesn't hesitate. >> rose: burr is played by leslie odom junior. >> burr: ♪ takes and he takes and he takes ♪ and he keeps winning anyway changes the game ♪ plays and raises the stakes and if there's a reason ♪ he seems to thrive and so few survive ♪ then goddamit i'm willing to wait for it! ♪ i'm willing to wait for it! >> rose: miranda explores the rivalry between burr and hamilton. from friends, to competitors, to political rivals.

in one song, they finally become enemies. >> burr: ♪ i, i wanna be in the room where it happens ♪ the room where it happens >> lin-manuel miranda: "room where it happens" was the toughest jigsaw puzzle i've ever done. >> rose: a puzzle explaining how hamilton, jefferson and madison made a backroom deal to move the u.s. capital from new york city to washington d.c. in 1790. in the musical, this becomes the final straw for the man left out. >> burr: ♪ i've gotta be, i've got to be, in the room ♪ the big old room! the art of the compromise ♪ hold your nose and close your eyes >> lin-manuel miranda: i'm both trying to explain this very complicated compromise that happened behind closed doors, and what makes it exciting in the context of our story is we're telling it from the perspective of the one guy who wasn't there: aaron burr. he says, "these guys just traded away the capitol of our country

in exchange for an unprecedented, financial plan. it all happened over a dinner that none of us were at. none of us had any say in the decision." >> rose: the room where it happens. >> lin-manuel miranda: the room where it happens. >> burr & ensemble: ♪ i've got to be in the room where it ♪ happened, the room where it happened ♪ i gotta be i gotta be ♪ in the rooooomm! click! ♪ boom! >> rose: for years, the story of burr and hamilton was hidden away in places like this, the new york historical society library. it holds many of their original writings. this is where historian ron chernow researched the biography that inspired miranda. >> ron chernow: lin-manuel miranda, i think, was smart enough to know that the best way to dramatize this story was to stick as close to the facts as

possible. you want violence? there's violence in the story. you want sex? there's sex in the story. >> rose: you want power, there's power in the story? >> chernow: you want power in the story. this has all of the ingredients. >> rose: including the story of hamilton's political downfall. it began with a year-long affair with a young woman named maria reynolds. it turned into the nation's first bona fide sex scandal. >> chernow: i think that what makes the whole story so bizarre and unbelievable is that hamilton ended up paying blackmail money to mr. reynolds. and this at a time when hamilton was not just the treasury secretary, but he was effectively, like, the prime minister of washington's government. so he was the most powerful man in the government. >> rose: when he was exposed, hamilton did something no one expected: he confessed everything. >> chernow: he wrote a 95-page pamphlet when even his closest friends thought that a delicately-worded paragraph or two would have done the trick. >> rose: i apologize, i made a mistake. >> chernow: and that would have done it.

>> jefferson & madison: ♪ alexander hamilton had a torrid affair ♪ and he wrote about it down right there! ♪ highlights! >> rose: in the show, miranda uses hamilton's own words from what became known as "the reynold's pamphlet." >> jefferson & madison & burr: ♪ i had frequent meetings with her ♪ most of them at my own house at his own house! ♪ at his own house! damn! >> rose: the scandal was one big reason there was never a "president" hamilton. >> jefferson & madison & burr: ♪ never gonna be president now ain't never gonna be president ♪ now that's one less thing to worry ♪ about! >> leslie odom jr: he's made these dead white guys make sense to a bunch of, you know, black and brown people. he's made them make sense in the context of our time with our music. >> rose: we spoke last fall with some of miranda's most important collaborators: cast-members leslie odom junior, renee elise goldsberry, daveed diggs, philippa soo and chris jackson. >> rose: what is it that

connects? what are you hearing? what is it that's resonating in these audiences? >> christopher jackson: there's so many different things happening in this story that it's almost impossible to peg, i think, it's just the music, or it's just the movement, or it's the lights, or it's the staging. and it could be any number of those things. or all of those things. >> rose: these are good female roles too, aren't they. >> renee elise goldsberry: yes they are. one of the things that's exciting to me about playing angelica schuyler and feeling so powerful and knowing the time that we live in with hilary running for president. we get to show who the founding mothers are and what they did. they were not just sewing flags. they were actually the muse, like angelica schuyler was to jefferson and to hamilton. >> rose: daveed, you said it gives you something you didn't have before. ownership of your own history. >> daveed diggs: yeah, yeah. i mean, this is the only time i've ever felt particularly american, is in the last, like, eight months that i've been working on this. >> rose: "hamilton" has come back to life at a time when

politics and immigration are the hottest topics in america. but it is miranda's writing that has made it a juggernaut. when you write, i mean i have been told you write, and if it's sad, tears come to your eyes. you're in the moment to express yourself. >> lin-manuel miranda: yeah. i think of acting and writing as pretty much the same thing. it's all about getting inside the skin of your characters, and seeing where they are, and knowing how they've grown up. you have to know all this, like, in your bones, what they've come up against, who they are. and then you just start talking as them. and you write until the rust comes out of the faucet and it's clear water. and you write down the clear water. >> rose: because the clear water is the perfection at the end of this. >> lin-manuel miranda: well, it's the stuff that feels true. >> chernow: the bullet hit him actually on the right side. >> rose: most people already know how the story of alexander hamilton ends. he died in 1804 in a duel with aaron burr in weehawkin, new jersey. by then, burr was a lame duck vice president.

hamilton, just shy of his 50th birthday, was practicing law. how could that happen? >> chernow: dueling revolved around honor. you were protecting your honor. >> rose: but here are two men, they're not ordinary politicians? they have a lot to lose? >> chernow: here were two politicians with their careers in decline who thought that they would establish their courage and manhood on the dueling ground. burr was feeling very, very frustrated. it seemed like at every turn alexander hamilton was there, you know, blocking his path. >> lin-manuel miranda: he writes in a letter before the duel. he said "there was no way this could have been avoided. we have been circling each other for a while. it was always going to come to this." >> rose: this was going to happen. >> lin-manuel miranda: this was going to be happen. they are fundamentally different men. and they run in concentric circles until they meet. >> tommy kail: and everything around them is moving. >> rose: miranda and director tommy kail staged the intensifying rivalry between the two men. ahhh. >> lin-manuel miranda: yeah, it's pretty cool, right? >> rose: it's really cool.

the turntable was essential. >> kail: it allows the propulsion of the show to continue, to continue this insistence of movement that hamilton had in his life. >> hamitlon: i imagine death so much it feels more like a memory. >> rose: many historians including chernow believe hamilton deliberately fired into the air, throwing away his shot. >> wait!!! >> rose: it is a fatal miscalculation. >> burr: ♪ i hear wailing in the streets ♪ somebody tells me you better hide ♪ they say angelica and eliza were both by his side when he ♪ died >> lin-manuel miranda: here's the thing about hamilton. i think hamilton was ready to die from the time he was 14 years old. i think what he has is what i have, which is that thing of, "tomorrow's not promised. i got to get as much done as i can." ( clapping )

>> rose: it's not only good acting. it's not only good music. people are saying it's transformative. >> lin-manuel miranda: it's certainly changed my life. but i think it's because when great people cross our path, and i'm talking about hamilton here, it forces us to reckon with what we're doing with our lives, you know? at my age, hamilton was treasury secretary and creating our financial system from scratch. >> rose: and building a country? >> lin-manuel miranda: yeah. i wrote two plays. >> the making of the "hamilton" cast album. go to 60minutesovertime.com. sponsored by prevnar 13. what if one piece of kale could protect you from diabetes? what if one sit-up could prevent heart disease? one. wishful thinking, right? but there is one step you can take to help prevent another serious disease.

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