August 18, 1979 - MPR’s John Gaddo reports on President Jimmy Carter’s visit to Wabasha, Minnesota. Segment includes clip of an energy speech by President Carter, followed by a group birthday celebration for Rosalynn Carter and comments from people in the crowd about the visit.
August 23, 1979 - Dick Gregory speaking before a youth session of the NAACP
August 29, 1979 - Michael Novak, author and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute speaks.
September 20, 1979 - American Indian writer Jamake Highwater talks to a group of TV producers, artists and business people attending Minneapolis Conference on Children's Television Programming, sponsored by Action for Children's Television, an advocacy group based in Boston.
October 16, 1979 - MPR’s Claudia Hampston profiles Minnesota author Sigurd Olson as he receives honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Minnesota. Olson was honored for his environmental writing and efforts in protecting the wilderness of Minnesota.
October 30, 1979 - John M. Bach, a coworker with Reverend Philip Berrigan, speaking as part of the Prisons and Prisoners lecture series at Moorhead State College, held in the fall of 1973. Bach shared views from a prisoner perspective. Bach spent 35 months in seven federal prisons for refusing induction into military service. PLEASE NOTE: Audio contains disturbing language
November 3, 1979 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and widow of Charles Lindbergh, speaks at the Minnesota Historical Society's 130th annual meeting on fitting memorials for great persons.
November 9, 1979 - A press conference excerpt on the attempted plot to kidnap Governor Al Quie.
November 19, 1979 - Robert Jewett, author of "The Captain America Complex: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism," lectures at the University of LaCrosse on how superheros are part of the nation's religion and US foreign policy were developed from biblical interpretations.
November 21, 1979 - Edward “Teddy” Kennedy, Democratic presidential candidate, speaking at Macalester College. Kennedy addresses his candidacy and his reasons for opposing President Jimmy Carter.