A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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September 2, 1973 - Dr. Alvin Thompson, author of a paper on the U.S. health care system's effect on the working poor, (especially African Americans), is interviewed.
September 3, 1973 - MPR’s Kevin McKiernan reports on the condition and fall out from shooting of AIM leader Clyde Bellecourt.
September 6, 1973 - Poet Jim Moore compares Walt Whitman's The Role of the Poet with the poetry of Tom McGrath, specifically McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend. Moore reads aloud from both poems.
September 18, 1973 - Vine Deloria Jr., a treaties expert and author of In Utmost Good Faith and We Talk, You Listen, talks with MPR’s Kevin McKiernan. Topics include religion, treaties, and Wounded Knee.
September 23, 1973 - A broadcast of regional poets Thomas McGrath and Mark Vinz speaking at IMAGINATION 1973 in Fargo, North Dakota. McGrath and Vinz also read poems to the audience.
October 1, 1973 - MPR’s Connie Goldman reports on design science exhibit of Buckminster Fuller's eco-friendly architectural story. Report includes interviews with Fuller, and with people viewing the exhibit.
October 2, 1973 - MPR’s Paul Grochow reports on an exhibit of early John Berryman manuscripts displayed at the University of Minnesota. Report includes comments from Berryman’s publishing friend, Robert Giroux, who speaks about the fickle nature of publishing.
October 4, 1973 - Brief report on American Indian Movement (AIM) rally at University of Minnesota on September 25, 1973, followed by various speeches from rally. Speakers included Allan Spear, Angela Davis and Russell Means.
October 7, 1973 - Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward speaking at Ford Hall Forum. Title of address was “Watergate: A National Crisis.”
October 8, 1973 - Architect and theorist Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller speaks on the discovery of the eternal pattern operative in the universe. Address was given at University of Minnesota’s Northup Auditorium.