April 16, 1974 - MPR’s Connie Goldman has a conversation with author Robert Pirsig about his book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” Pirsig shares how he started the book while also writing computer manuals, and finished it while spending time in a camper on the North Shore.
April 18, 1974 - Patricia Tollefson, president of Minnesotans against Equal Rights Amendment, comments on her opposition to the Minnesota State Board of Education Sex Task Force recommendations on sex discrimination in schools.
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April 19, 1974 - A speech given by Eugene McCarthy, who was a long-term DFL Congress Representative from Minnesota, as well as a poet and author. McCarthy is speaking here on the vice presidency, how to reform the Presidency, and the 25th Amendment of the Constitution.
April 19, 1974 - Comments from Eugene McCarthy regarding Richard Nixon and impeachment. (Part 1)
April 19, 1974 - Comments from Eugene McCarthy regarding Richard Nixon and impeachment. (Part 2)
April 25, 1974 - A congratulatory letter from Congressman John Zwach, recognizing St. Cloud on becoming an All-American City, as well as other letters from President Nixon, Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson and Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale.
April 29, 1974 - A hearing on alleged government misconduct in prosecuting the so-called nonleadership cases of the Wounded Knee occupation continues in Souix Falls Federal Court. Judge Warren Urbom is the presiding judge.
April 29, 1974 - MPR’s Bob Potter interviews Mulford Q. Sibley, University of Minnesota political science professor, about President Nixon and impeachment. Sibley states Vietnam has caused a culture of deception in American politics, and that impeachment of President Nixon should include Vietnam war crimes as well.
May 7, 1974 - During a peace rally at the University of Minnesota in May, 1974, Mulford Q. Sibley speaks about the anti-war movement.