21: RBG:  How to Pull All-Nighters at 85 …Years Old! [K-Cup DoubleShot]

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Betsy West is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and educator and the co-Director & co-Producer of the film RGB about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  A producer and executive for over two decades at ABC News, West received 21 Emmy Awards and two DuPont-Columbia Awards for her work on “Nightline” and “Prime Time Live” and the documentary program “Turning Point,” where she served as executive producer. As senior vice president at CBS News from 1998-2005, she oversaw “60 Minutes” and “48 Hours.” Betsy graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in English and Film.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:

• How Justice Ginsberg is a huge opera fan and attends the Sante Fe Opera Festival every year (2:05)
• What Justice Ginsberg did one evening when the operas ended “early” at 9:30pm …and it wasn’t go home! (2:33)
• What Justice Ginsberg’s reputation is on the court in terms of producing dissents (3:06)

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