Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
August 10, 1973 - MER’s Greg Barron reports on Reserve Mining trial, where issues of asbestos from dumping tailings into Lake Superior are being argued. Dr. Donald Baumgartner, an engineer for the Environmental Protection Agency, testified for the state using a taconite settling study that shows particles can carry great distances in Lake Superior. Reserve Mining claims taconite is carried to a 600 foot "Great Trench."
August 21, 1973 - HEW Secretary Caspar Weinberger outlines improvements he wishes to make to the present Medicare system.
August 27, 1973 - Unidentified interviewee with Bob Potter verifying reports of Clyde Bellecourt allegedly being shot by AIM leader Carter Camp.
August 30, 1973 - MPR’s Kevin McKiernan reports that the Custer, South Dakota grand jury returned indictments against Russell Means, Vernon Bellecourt, Dennis Banks and several others. Some 20 policemen came to hospital in Winter, SD and make arrests. Report details information on charges and bail.
August 30, 1973 - MPR’s Kevin McKiernan reports of harassment by the FBI and federal marshalls coming out from Wounded Knee. Occupiers talk of rapes, shootings and beatings. Currently there are several harrassment suits opened against some FBI officers in Rapid City.
August 31, 1973 - MPR’s Kevin McKiernan reports on Clyde Bellecourt’s hospitalization, and discussion to move him over security risk.
August 31, 1973 - MPR’s Kevin McKiernan interviews unknown speaker, most likely Vernon Bellecourt, after arrest with Russell Means at Baptist Hospital while visiting Clyde Bellecourt on Aug. 30, which immediately followed indictments handed down by the Indian grand jury in Custer.
August 31, 1973 - Vernon Bellecourt, American Indian Movement leader, is fasting until all arrested are released on reduced bond amounts.
September 2, 1973 - MPR’s Dulcie Lawrence reports on Jane VanDeusen, a Minnesota registered nurse, running for mayor on a health care platform as part of the Socialists Workers Party ticket.
September 2, 1973 - MPR’s Debbie Gage conducts an interview about a provision to treat women fairly in terms of getting financial credit.