June 13, 1995 - Hedrick Smith, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, speaking at the Minnesota Business Roundtable held in Minneapolis. Smith’s address was on the topic of connection between business and the educational system. Smith has produced a PBS documentary “Challenge to America,” and book is titled "Re-Thinking America: A New Game Plan from the American Innovators: Schools, Business, People, and Work." After speech, program presents a brief NPR report on teacher potentially being fired for using books with gay characters in her English class.
October 25, 1991 - Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, discusses the damaging developments of the soviet economy, and possibility of future loose confederation of the splintering Soviet republics as an economic power. Smith has been a New York Times journalist and foreign correspondent from the Soviet Union and around the world for 26 years. Hedrick Smith has updated his book, "The New Russians", to include several new chapters on the failed Soviet Coup and its aftermath. He is currently a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
October 1, 1987 - Hedrick Smith, chief correspondent for the New York Times in Washington, D.C. and a regular panelist on the public television series, "Washington Week in Review," speaking to symposium at Concordia College in Moorhead on the topic, "Power Politics and the Separation of Powers".