A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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May 30, 1977 - MPR’s Rachel Kranz reports on the efforts of local The Playwrights’ Lab. Kranz speaks with playwright Terry Lappin about the organization.
May 31, 1977 - Author Joan Didion addresses The University of California, Berkeley audience about writing. This is followed by interview with NPR reporter Susan Stanberg.
June 3, 1977 - Morton Sobell, the only living defendant from the 1951 espionage case of Julian and Ethel Rosenberg, addresses an audience at the University of Minnesota in Duluth on the similarities between the Rosenberg case and other "political trials" such as Wounded Knee and the Chicago 7.
June 4, 1977 - Charles Cheng, professor at the University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School of Education, speaking at a forum sponsored by the Minnesota League of Women Voters. His topic is teachers’ unions, collective bargaining, and the role of citizens in such negotiations.
June 4, 1977 - MPR’s Claudia Hampston reports on announcement at Minnesota Women's Meeting of Governor Perpich’s court appointments, including Rosalie Wahl as associate justice on Minnesota Supreme Court.
June 7, 1977 - Steven Weinberg, a Harvard University physicist talks with Rachel Kranz about some underlying concepts of nature. Weinberg attended the annual Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota.
June 8, 1977 - MPR’s Rich Dietman reports on the fight over local laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination. Dietman talks Florian Chmielewski, DFL state senator of Sturgeon Lake; and Jack Baker, a Minneapolis attorney and a coordinator of the Target City Coalition.
June 11, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, a presentation of panel discussion entitled "Equal Opportunities and the Quality of Life in the Metropolitan Conglomerate."
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June 18, 1977 - John Lavine, Wisconsin newspaper publisher and University of Wisconsin regent, gives speech titled "Why Johnny Can't Read and What You Should Do About It" at the annual dinner of the Minneapolis Concerned Citizens for Public Education.