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  • 80 years after Pearl Harbor, survivors reflect on the day that changed history (Part 2)

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  • Blood test detects over 50 types of cancer (Part 2)

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  • How the elite U.S. Forest Service hotshots battle wildfires (Part 1)

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  • How the elite U.S. Forest Service hotshots battle wildfires (Part 2)

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  • Climate change in Guatemala: Between starvation and migration (Part 1)

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  • Climate change in Guatemala: Between starvation and migration (Part 2)

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  • A look at St. Louis' iconic Gateway Arch (Part 1)

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  • A look at St. Louis' iconic Gateway Arch (Part 2)

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  • Extended interview: Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose on ‘West Side Story’ remake (Part 1)

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  • Extended interview: Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose on ‘West Side Story’ remake (Part 2)

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  • Black playwrights take center stage on Broadway (Part 1)

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Nightly Films

Henry Montgomery, who paved the way for juvenile lifers to seek parole, free after nearly 58 years (Part 2)

02:43

Lester Holt first met Henry Montgomery in 2019, while he was embedded inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary for Dateline. Montgomery, who was convicted of murder at 17, took his case to the Supreme Court and paved the way for juvenile lifers to seek the possibility of freedom. After he was denied parole in 2019, this week Montgomery walked out of Angola as a free man.

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