November 6, 1975 - MPR’s Bill Siemering interviews Marisha Chamberlain about her experience in Poetry Out Loud and the subject of poetry in general.
November 7, 1975 - MPR’s Bill Siemering interviews Dr. Roland Dille on Sinclair Lewis, author of “Main Street.”
November 11, 1975 - With the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald the day prior during a gale storm on Lake Superior, MPR’s Dick Daly interviews Dr. Julius Wolff, a maritime historian at University of Minnesota Duluth, about the dangerous history of shipping on the massive lake in November.
November 11, 1975 - MPR’s Claudia Hampston talks with Erling Hanson, of the Harbormasters' Club, to get his reaction of news that the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a gale storm on November, 10th 1975.
November 25, 1975 - MPR's Kevin McKiernan's inside story on the Menominee Indian takeover of the Alexian Brothers monastery in Gresham, Wisconsin. McKiernan is the only reporter to have gotten in and out of the monastery during the occupation with useable recorded material. He lets the Indian faction tell their story.
December 1, 1975 - Rick Baker, chairman of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Chippewa Indians; Eugene Savage, Duluth Action Council; and Ray Murdock, Duluth Indian activist discuss hunting and fishing rights of Indians in relationship with treaties.
December 13, 1975 - The Northern Environmental Council, a federation of more than fifty environmental groups in five upper Midwest states wants the federal government to cancel International Nickel Company’s lease for copper and nickel mining in the state near the BWCA.
December 14, 1975 - Hubert H. Humphrey speaks at DFL feminist caucus on the ERA Amendment and need to educate those who are needed for its ratification.
December 14, 1975 - Hubert H Humphrey speaks at DFL feminist caucus, saying law calling for equal pay for equal work isn't enforced. He talks about how much women earn compared to men.
December 15, 1975 - Non-candidate Hubert Humphrey intros friend Fred Harris. Harris: Office of president can move the country. Tells joke. Says privilege is a Bicentennial issue, quotes Jefferson. We have miseducated a generation that unemployment is good for us. No person should be out of work. More costly in unemployment, govt aid programs, crime, admissions to prisons, alcoholism; privilege keeps foreign policy on side of multi-nationals and side of status quo. Not many people are happy with the status quo. Harris says he likes MN, has friends here. Says Humphrey has said he won't run for president.