October 5, 1974 - Moorehead landmark hotel being auctioned. Former employees rememeber working at the F-M hotel. Customers and former employees gather to witness the auction. **Audio quality is poor (high frequency runs through narration
September 19, 1974 - Poet Nikki Giovanni, one of the leading voices in the black artist movement, talks about current affairs on the third anniversary of the Attica uprising. She was in Moorhead for a poetry reading on the Concordia College campus.
August 3, 1974 - A sound portrait of the 1974 Red River Valley Fair. Reporters collect the sounds and excitement, from the animal barns to the midway, as well as the people who participated, and those who came to see.
July 13, 1974 - “In Search of Americanism” program collects various interviews and views of citizens from the Fargo-Moorhead area on what America is, what our culture and beliefs are, and our common ideals, and perceptions on patriotism.
March 8, 1974 - AIM leader Russell Means speaks in Moorhead on the Wounded Knee occupation and recent Pine Ridge election, of which he lost to Richard Wilson. He says Wilson committed election violations, and will ask federal court to order a new election. When asked to comment on his trial now underway in St. Paul for his part in the Wounded Knee occupation, Means says he has confidence in the jury to get a fair trial, but is worried about the judge, who claims to be a liberal from South Dakota. Means says: "To be a liberal in South Dakota is just a bit left of the John Birch Society".
February 27, 1974 - Moorehead DFL precinct caucus votes to rally legislators to impeach Nixon.
February 21, 1974 - North Dakota has created a reclamation plan for land mined for coal, for gasification. Environmentalists are concerned about the impact. Dr. Donald Scoby, environmental biologist at North Dakota State University, talks about problems with reclamation, including disruption of aquifers and loss of biodiversity in the topsoil. Many environmentalists think we should be paying the true cost instead of passing it on to future generations.
January 19, 1974 - Human Rights activist Dick Gregory, speaking in Fargo-Moorehead, talks about his support of the American Indian Movement, its parallels with the black Civil Rights movement, unhealthy conditions on the reservation, and his hopes for a fair trial for Wounded Knee defendants. He also discusses campus unrest around the country.
January 19, 1974 - Dick Gregory, author and human rights activist, talks in Fargo-Moorhead on the Concordia campus.