March 11, 1976 - Midday presents Martin Bunzl's documentary on U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey. Bunzl traveled with Humphrey for several weeks collecting information for this production. Program contains various speeches, commentary, interviews, and advertising/music clips.
October 17, 1975 - Cases of nine people convicted for roles they played in Wounded Knee occupation come before appeals court. The appeal is a consolidated one, with two lines of attack: one on US jurisdiction (the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty guarantees sovereign rights of Lakota people), the other, government misconduct (the FBI paid informant Doug Durham to infiltrate AIM). The appeals court many not act on treaty issues, so the case may be sent to the Supreme Court. Lawyer Vine DeLoria says for too many years the government has treated Indian tribes as sovereign some of the time and wards of the state at other times. She wants an unambigious ruling on what the relationship is, which has implications for Pine Ridge Reservation. A ruling expected in two and a half months. Martin Bunzl and Bob Potter report.
October 10, 1975 - Dr. Christian Barnard, famous heart transplant surgeon, talks briefly about his novel whose protagonist is a heart surgeon. He says one point of the book was to bring out racial discrimination and segregation in medicine, petty-apartheid (petit-apartheid?), in South Africa. He talks about having received threats due to his challenging the white ideology in South Africa, where the white minority fears they?ll lose everything they?ve built there without the apartheid government structure. They?ve seen what has happened in other African countries. South Africa represents western civilization in Africa, and competition is based on your ability to compete in that environment, where it?s natural the white man would do better.
October 1, 1975 - At the Noble Conference in St. Peter Dr. Glenn Seaborg addresses the audience on the public's unrealistic expectations of science. The public expect spectacular discoverys and projects and there is mounting pressure for research to have economic payouts.
October 1, 1975 - The two day Nobel Conference is poised to get underway in St. Peter at Gustavus Adolphus College. Thirty Nobel laureates will be awarded honory degrees in opening ceremonies. The topic of the conference will be "The Future of Science."
October 1, 1975 - The Nobel Conference in St. Peter opened with a presentation by Glen Seaborg on radioactive isotopes.
August 20, 1975 - MPR’s Martin Bunzel interviews sex-positive feminist Margo St. James, who discusses the decriminalization of prostitution.
August 4, 1975 - Dr. Allen Sullivan, professor of psycho-educational studies at the University of Minnesota, talks with MPR reporter Martin Bunzl about the effects of racism within educational system on minority children. Sullivan describes numerous examples of systematic bias, and entrenched cultural attitudes towards black children.
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.”
May 16, 1975 - A two-part program dealing with the problem of unemployment, produced by MPR reporter Martin Bunzl. The first part is a collage of voices of unemployed workers reacting to their current situation, and some officials. The second is a conversation with Bud James, organizer for the Workers Alliance between 1935 and 1940, and organizer for the Workers' Alliance, which helped set up unemployment councils during the Great Depression. James talks about the status of unemployment benefits during the earlier hard times.