May 23, 1978 - Hollywood playwright Ring Lardner Jr. speaks about blacklisting at the University of North Dakota Writers Conference. Lardner Jr., a member of the "Hollywood Ten", was blacklisted from 1940s through the 1960s for being a member of the U.S. Communist Party.
May 3, 1978 - University of North Dakota in Grand Forks hosted the 9th annual Writers Conference in March 1978. MPR’s Arts and Cultural Affairs reporter Nancy Fushan attended the conference and presents this, the first of three programs, with an overview on the theme of conference “Literature as Lamp and Mirror.”