September 22, 1975 - Audio clip from Gary Eichten’s 1975 interview with Minneapolis Star columnist Jim Klobuchar. Klobuchar comments on being in the outdoors.
September 29, 1975 - Kevin McKiernan spent several weeks in South Dakota reporting on various events in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - including the fatal shooting of two FBI agents and an Indian at the end of June. While there, McKiernan had a conversation with a Rapid City businessman, the night manager of a Western goods store, who asks to remain anonymous. The businessman discusses how Indian people are viewed by some people in the Rapid City white community.
September 29, 1975 - Kevin McKiernan spent several weeks in South Dakota reporting on various events in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - including the fatal shooting of two FBI agents and an Indian at the end of June. While there, McKiernan recorded the attitudes and feelings of South Dakota residents, both white and Indian. This is an interview with Pine Ridge medicine man Selo Black Crow. Black Crow begins by relating the story of a white sheriff who leased his land to a third party for cattle grazing. Black Crow imprisoned the cattle and was threatened by the FBI with a charge of cattle rustling. Here is his account of the standoff and its resolution.
September 30, 1975 - Watergate Judge John Sirica speaking at Concordia College, Moorhead. His topic was on strong and active citizenry in the United States.
October 1, 1975 - MPR’s Terri Keefe reports on a speech by feminist author Kate Millett at the University of Minnesota. Millet talks about the rules of sexuality in classical literature, Oedipus, Medea, and erotic literature.
October 1, 1975 - Dan Gustavson, representing 34 craft unions, says it is mandatory that all work union. He also says, "General Mills fired US," he says, but not why(?). General Mills gave grant money to revitalize the Stevens Square neighborhood and assume this audio file is referring to this project.
October 1, 1975 - James Larson, project manager of the Rayson Project (?), does battle with building trade unions as he works to rennovate Stevens Square in Minneapolis.
October 1, 1975 - This is a very short audio file with no identifying information. The spreadsheet says it is General Mills Assistant Treasurer James Weaver speaking on some appointment, but the speaker in the file doesn't talk about an appointment--only about a proposed national boycott. Neither the company nor the speaker are identified.
October 1, 1975 - The frequency of claims is the most alarming aspect of malpractice turmoil. Adverse drug reaction, patients' unrealistic expectations and loss of job rather than negligence are the reasons for many suits, as is the state's tort system, so says a Mr. Burnswag, testifying before a state subcommittee on malpractice.
October 1, 1975 - MPR’s Greg Barron visits Earl Cunningham’s farm in Sleepy Eye, which has been organic since 1964. Tours come to see this revolutionary way of farming for the 20th Century. Barron interviews Cunningham, who is passionate about organic practices and talks about how it's done.