Salman Rushdie: The 60 Minute Interview (1990)

In 1990, Mike Wallace spoke with the author of “The Satanic Verses,” who was sentenced to death by Ayatollah Khomeini. In 1989, the Ayatollah declared that Rushdie's novel was an affront to Islam.

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