War
December 11, 1992 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles General Vang Pao, a major general in the Royal Lao Army and a leader of the Hmong American community in the United States. Segment includes interviews academics, supporters, critics, and General Vang Pao himself.
January 15, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Anthony Signorelli and Paul Macadam, editors of Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing: Echoes from the Gulf War, published by Inroads Press (Minneapolis, MN). Poet Thomas R. Smith, from River Falls, Wisconsin, also takes part in conversation.
January 15, 1993 - Author Anthony Signorelli reads Pretend You Live in a Room by poet William Stafford.
January 15, 1993 - Local editor and writer Paul Macadam reads War is the Health of the State by Robert Bly.
January 27, 1993 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder interviews documentarian Kristian Berg about his film, The Dakota Conflict. The film, aired on KTCA-TV, focuses on the events before and after the Lakota War against colonizers in 1862.
February 5, 1993 - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark talks about aspects of past U.S.-Middle East relations and on his book, The Fire This Time: U. S. War Crimes in the Gulf.
February 17, 1993 - A Worldview interviews with Chester Crocker, a former American diplomat in the Reagan administration, about U.S. relations and efforts in South Africa and other areas of Africa.
March 29, 1993 - Richard Moe, author of The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers, talks with Midday’s Gary Eichten about his book and the Civil War participants. Moe also answers listener questions.
April 22, 1993 - Rhoda Lewin, a Minnesota-based oral historian and Jewish scholar comments on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as it prepares to open.
April 24, 1993 - An unknown girl speaks on her thoughts on women having the opportunity to serve in the military, including combat positions.