All Things Considered is a comprehensive source for afternoon news and information provided by various MPR hosts in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington over the decades. The program contains interviews, reports, speeches and breaking coverage.
November 11, 1974 - A member of group supporting POWs states that 55 military and 5 civilians POWs were in a camp. The U.S. received 23 bodies in March of 1974, but, group pushes to receive the rest of the bodies.
November 11, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten presents news items of an untraditional Veteran's Day celebration address by St. Paul Mayor Larry Cohen, comments from Reverend Russell Krambeck, and a protest demonstration in Twin Cities.
January 14, 1975 - MPR’s Dan Olson interviews a man who visited Gresham Alexian Novitiate after Menominee Warrior Society takeover. Interviewee talks about who comprises novitiate occupiers, describes an Indian grand jury held to determine the complaints people had on the reservation, discusses how Menominee land lost for taxes and then sold, and an explanation of the Menominee tribe’s situation compared with other tribes in a white-dominated society.
January 20, 1975 - MPR’s Kevin McKiernan reports on continued occupation of the Gresham Novitiate, which is in its 20th day. Tensions remain high, with issues and demands of Indians inside starting to escalate and 350 National Guardsmen surrounding the abbey. Possession of abbey appears as a vehicle for exposing problems seething for many years.
January 21, 1975 - MPR’s Kim Hodgson reports on the aftermath a little over a week since the “Blizzard of the Century” on the Northern Plains. Damage estimate numbers on livestock lost at about 1% to 3% of livestock inventory, totaling $1.3 million for seven county area.
August 27, 1975 - MPR’s Connie Goldman interviews journalist, writer, and community civic activist Barbara Flanagan about her book Minneapolis.
October 31, 1975 - Lorraine and Edward Warren, psychic researchers discuss the rise of anti-Judeo Christian faiths, witchcraft, ghosts, and the astral plane as a precursor to their Halloween talk at North Dakota State University.
November 11, 1975 - With the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald the day prior during a gale storm on Lake Superior, MPR’s Dick Daly interviews Dr. Julius Wolff, a maritime historian at University of Minnesota Duluth, about the dangerous history of shipping on the massive lake in November.
November 11, 1975 - MPR’s Claudia Hampston talks with Erling Hansen, of the Harbormasters' Club, to get his reaction of news that the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a gale storm on November, 10th 1975.
August 11, 1976 - MPR reporter John Merli looks at the growing popularity of soccer in the state and local professional team, the Minnesota Kicks.