A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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March 27, 1976 - Governor Rudy Perpich discusses the debate on cyclone fencing.
March 31, 1976 - "Education Today -- How Relevant?" is the topic discussed in this National Town Meeting by Minnesota Representative Albert Quie, ranking Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, among others.
April 4, 1976 - Claudia Hampston talks with painter and printmaker Bela Petheo about his paintings in and on Duluth.
April 7, 1976 - United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger gave the keynote address at the National Conference on the Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice (a.k.a. the Pound Conference) in St. Paul. Speech was titled “Agenda for 2000 AD: A Need for Systematic Anticipation.” Justive Burger was Introduced by Robert Sheran, Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice.
April 7, 1976 - MPR’s Kate Williams profiles Sutton’s, a gay bar in downtown Minneapolis that relocated to a more prominent location. Sutton’s has been around for over a decade but it officially came out of the closet last week when it opened its doors to over 800 people at a new location…the old Elk’s Club on 5th street in downtown Minneapolis.
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April 9, 1976 - On this Options program, a discussion between Author-anthropologist Margaret Mead and psychiatrist Roy Menninger, president of the Menninger Foundation, on the topic "Toward a Caring Society."
April 15, 1976 - Tom Wolfe, the author credited for developing “The New Journalism,” speaks at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks on the direction in news writing and journalism for the 7th Annual University of North Dakota Writers Conference.
April 23, 1976 - John Merli talks with Senator Hubert Humphrey 6 days before his announcement not to actively seek the 1976 Democratic Presidential nomination about his personal retreat at Lake Waverly, and about his unique "non-running" position in campaign 1976.
April 28, 1976 - Businessman Luigino “Jeno” Francesco Paulucci, self-described “peddler from the Iron Range”, speaking in Hibbing about the Range and it's economic problems.