CBS's Gayle King to Conduct First TV Interview with Woman Featured in Viral Protest Image

CBS THIS MORNING Co-host Gayle King will sit down with Ieshia Evans, the Baton Rouge nurse and mother, who was captured in the iconic photo calmly facing Louisiana state guards in a long dress, after the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling this past weekend. King will speak with Evans on Thursday in New York for an interview that will be broadcast across all CBS News platforms.

Evans, who was arrested shortly after the impactful photo was taken, was among more than a hundred people released from the East Baton Rouge Parish Jail on Sunday. King will also speak with Jay Morrison, fellow protestor and founder of Young Minds Can movement, during the interview about the protests and how to move forward.

The full interview will be broadcast tomorrow, Friday, July 15, on CBS THIS MORNING (7:00-9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network, with an excerpt broadcast tonight, Thursday, July 14, on the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY (6:30-7:00 PM, ET). Additionally, an early excerpt will be presented on CBSN, CBS News' 24/7 digital streaming news service. Video clips will be available on www.cbsnews.com.

CBS THIS MORNING launched Jan. 9, 2012, and has become the Network's most successful morning newscast in more than nearly three decades. The broadcast has posted year-over-year audience increases for 45 consecutive months. Each weekday morning, Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell deliver two hours of original reporting, breaking news and top-level newsmaker interviews in an engaging and informative format that challenges the norm in network morning news programs. The broadcast has earned a prestigious Peabody Award, a Polk Award, two News & Documentary Emmys and two Daytime Emmys. The broadcast was also honored with an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award as part of CBS News division-wide coverage of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Ryan Kadro is the Executive Producer of CBS THIS MORNING and CBS THIS MORNING: SATURDAY.

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