MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
May 1, 1980 -
May 2, 1980 - MPR’s Tom Meersman reports on arrival of Laotian refugee plane. The exhausted passengers exit plane and enter a new and overwhelming home.
May 2, 1980 -
May 7, 1980 -
May 7, 1980 - The report estimates that Saint Paul now has 4,000 Indochinese refugees, about 80 percent of them the ethnic Hmong people from the mountain country of Laos.
May 7, 1980 -
May 7, 1980 -
May 8, 1980 -
May 9, 1980 -
May 9, 1980 - MPR’s Tom Meersman interviews a Hmong refugee upon their arrival in Minnesota. Interviewee describes the life left behind and the uncertainty of what lies ahead for family in St. Paul.