October 25, 1974 -
October 29, 1974 - MPR’s Sam Ford reports on Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman boxing match held in Zaire, Africa. Ford visits Minneapolis Auditorium and interviews attendees present for a closed circuit viewing of fight hyped as “Fight of the Century.”
November 4, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten reports on civil rights & political activist Jesse Jackson’s visit to the Twin Cities for a groundbreaking on an inner city shopping complex, one of first in country conceived and developed by minorities. Jackson is president of group called PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), which encourages minority business ownership.
November 4, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten reports on Reverend Jesse Jackson’s visit to the Twin Cities. In a speech, Jackson says local inner city shopping complex project is evidence of what can be done when people want something bad enough.
November 5, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eicthen talks with Phil Getts, deputy director of the Minnesota Energy Agency, about heating prices going up due to potential coal shortage. Getz states that utility companies will have to switch over to oil as a coal strike looms on the horizon.
November 6, 1974 - The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra returns to Minnesota from a four-week tour of Europe. In a brief interview at airport, Conductor Dennis Russell Davies said audiences were very receptive.
November 8, 1974 - Connie Goldman attended a workshop of welfare workers, social service agencies and law enforcement personnel on the topic of incest. Goldman collected interviews from various members of workshop, and a speech from Dr. John Brantner of the Division of Health Care Psychology at the University of Minnesota Hospitals.
November 8, 1974 - Secretary of State Arlen Erdahl, a Republican and former Minnesota state representative, discusses loss in 1974 election and how changes to election law in Minnesota in waning years of Nixon fallout may or may not have affected Republican fortunes in state and national elections.
November 8, 1974 - Black activist Angela Davis speaks at St. John's University about racism as a disease and political oppression.
November 8, 1974 - MPR’s Dick Daly reports a hearing on lake water use held in Duluth. All the Great Lakes have had too much water in recent years and high water and strong winds have eroded shorelines and caused flooding. Lake Superior water levels are held artificially high by the IJC, a US joint commission with Canada.