Jane Pauley spotlights Marilyn Monroe, Jill Biden and family detention

The sharpest public-interest thread in Jane Pauley’s Sunday lineup runs through Dilley, Texas, where the South Texas Family Residential Center remains the nation’s only family detention facility and a continuing test of federal oversight. A congressional visit recorded 345 people inside the complex, including 66 families and 97 children, and raised concerns about food, medical care and DNA collection procedures. The Department of Homeland Security has disputed the reporting as a hoax, making the Dilley segment as much about transparency and accountability as it is about conditions behind the fence.

That detention story sits alongside a broader sweep of American culture and politics on CBS News Sunday Morning, which airs Sunday, May 31, 2026, from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. ET. Marilyn Monroe’s centenary is marked with a look at the enduring force of a star born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, and with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opening Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon, a show running from May 31, 2026 through February 28, 2027. The museum says the exhibition examines how Monroe shaped her public image inside the classic Hollywood studio system.

The episode also turns to Jill Biden as she discusses View from the East Wing, her memoir scheduled for publication on June 2, 2026 by Gallery Books. The book covers her four years in the White House, Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection bid, the abrupt end of his campaign, her advocacy and the pressures of the Biden presidency, including COVID-19, the January 6 insurrection and the president’s health. In the interview, Biden said she never saw signs of cognitive decline, though she said she was “frightened” by his 2024 debate performance.

Other segments widen the lens without losing the theme of how public life is explained and framed. The Human Library, which began in Copenhagen in 2000, brings people together with human “books” for conversations meant to reduce prejudice and stigma, including volunteers from groups that may be misunderstood or marginalized. The show also features Anna Leigh Waters, the 19-year-old pickleball player from Boynton Beach, Florida, whom the Professional Pickleball Association lists as world No. 1 in women’s singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles after turning pro in 2019.

The hour closes with a look beneath one of the nation’s most visible monuments. The U.S. National Park Service says the Lincoln Memorial undercroft will open to the public on June 25, 2026 as a 15,000-square-foot exhibit space beneath the memorial, where visitors will see the concrete foundations and trace how the structure was built and how its meaning has changed over the past century.