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Gov. Elmer Andersen, known as "Minnesota's leading citizen," had an impressive list of accomplishments in and out of office. Midday presents excerpts from an interview in 2000 and his speech to the Minnesota Legislature in 2001, in which he shares some of the lessons he learned as a successful businessman, politician, and philanthropist.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch will deliver the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at Gustavus Adolphus College. Branch is considered the preeminent biographer of Martin Luther King Jr. and has written a trilogy of books that document the Civil Rights era.
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Midday presents excerpts from an interview with Former Vice President Walter Mondale. The complete interview will be part of a special "Walter F. Mondale Collection" at the Minnesota Historical Society. Walter Mondale reflects on his time as vice president, senator, ambassador, and other roles.
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Isabel Wilkerson was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, for her reporting on the Midwestern floods of 1993.
She speaks about her new book, "The Warmth of Other Suns," about the migration of 6 million black Southerners who moved from to the North over a period of six decades beginning around 1915.
Wilkerson spent 15 years researching the book and interviewed more than 1,200 people.
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MSNBC host and political commentator Chris Matthews speaks at the Westminster Town Hall Forum about his new book about President John F. Kennedy, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero." The book highlights episodes of JFK's life with fresh details that have been little discussed until now.
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Midday presents excerpts from the American RadioWorks documentary, "Battles of Belief in World War II." It focuses on how the radio became a modern weapon of war. The first part of the program is the conclusion to he documentary, "Days of Infamy."
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On the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, Midday presents a special rebroadcast of American RadioWorks 2002 documentary, "Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11." It compares the public reactions to both surprise attacks, drawing from recordings made by the Library of Congress.
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