June 13, 1975 - MPR’s Debbie Gage reports on comments by U.S. Senator Walter Mondale Senate investigative committee looking at many government agencies, in addition to the CIA. Mondale thinks there could be a web of illegal activities and talks about the need to obtain classified information, and how classification is abused to shield documents from public scrutiny.
June 20, 1975 - Robert Trevino, Moorhead director of the Minnesota Migrant Council, says sooner or later, farmers will go to mechanical thinners.
June 20, 1975 - Gray Panthers founder Maggie Kuhn talks about mandatory retirement with MPR’s Bill Siemering. Maggie Kuhn speaks at a North Dakota Seniors United Meeting.
June 25, 1975 - James Reston, poet and former director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, speaks about the poetry of Mao Tse Tung.
June 25, 1975 - MPR’s Debbie Gage reports on community public testimony regarding abuse accusations of Minneapolis police. Reports includes commentary from Willie Mae Jennings and and Spike Moss.
June 29, 1975 - Minnesota poet Robert Bly reads his poems and the works of others in a talk given at Saint John's University Forum. Bly also gives his viewpoints on life and his philosophical impressions.
July 1, 1975 - Forum re-broadcasts a speech by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The exiled Soviet author made his first major public address in the United States at a banquet in his honor given by the AFL-CIO. Solzhenitsyn ‘s address was titled “Words of Warning to the Western World (aka America: You Must Think About The World).”
July 15, 1975 - Secretary of State Henry Kissinger speaking at the Radisson South Hotel in Bloomington, followed by a question and answer period. Speech was titled "The Moral Foundations of Foreign Policy". Event sponsored by the Upper Midwest Council. Opening remarks and introduction by Senator Hubert Humphrey and Governor Wendell Anderson. Outside protests and an inside heckler can be heard occasionally throughout recording.
July 16, 1975 - Report of the centennial of the cities of Fargo and Moorhead, with various sounds and interviews from the celebration. Program includes fiddlers contest, discussion on values of the past, and contents of a time capsule made for the bi-centennial.
July 16, 1975 - Press conference of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger held at the Radisson South Hotel in Bloomington on July 15th, 1975. Meeting with media was preceded by a speech Kissinger gave, titled “The Moral Foundations of Foreign Policy.”