A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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April 8, 1974 - On this segment from Recital Series, MPR’s Michael Barone completes an interview with Alfred Brendel, Austrian classical pianist, during a performance intermission at Benedicta Arts Center at College of Saint Benedict, Saint Joseph.
April 16, 1974 - MPR’s Connie Goldman has a conversation with author Robert Pirsig about his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Pirsig shares how he started the book while also writing computer manuals, and finished it while spending time in a camper on the North Shore.
April 25, 1974 - An interview with Pulitzer Prize winning author David Halberstam, who talks about how toxicity and imperialism in the executive branch perpetuated the Vietnam War. Halberstam says Secretary of State Robert McNamara based war decisions on faulty statistics.
April 29, 1974 - Robert Theobald, future planner and editor of Futures Conditional, opens the Judd Urban Forum - The Changing Urban World, held at Augsburg College, with a one-hour address entitled "How is the World Changing? Options and Preferences."
April 29, 1974 - MPR’s Bob Potter interviews Mulford Q. Sibley, University of Minnesota political science professor, about President Nixon and impeachment. Sibley states Vietnam has caused a culture of deception in American politics and that impeachment of President Nixon should include Vietnam war crimes as well.
May 7, 1974 - Mulford Q. Sibley, a professor of political science at University of Minnesota, speaks about the anti-war movement during a campus peace rally in May, 1974.
May 7, 1974 - A Peace Rally at the University of Minnesota in May, 1974, Paul Murphy talks about war-making powers and to whom they belong.
May 18, 1974 - Minnesota's senior citizens air their grievances before a panel of senators and representatives.
May 24, 1974 - A discussion concerning open-pit and underground copper-nickel mining operations which International Nickel has proposed to begin near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and the Town of Ely, Minnesota. Panel members include John Herman, Sierra Club attorney; Victor Arnold, State Planning Agency; William Bryce, Department of Natural Resources-Division of Mines; Miron Heinselman, US Forest Service; and Dean Ramstad, of International Nickel.
May 25, 1974 - Paul Murphy, professor of history at University of Minnesota, and Professor Clyde W. Summers of Yale Law School debate the issue of impeachment, as it regarded to President Nixon. Murphy argued for precedence, Summers for uniqueness of current circumstance. Debate held at the University of Minnesota.