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Minnesota History

A Eugene McCarthy retrospective

A Eugene McCarthy retrospective

On what would have been former Sen. Eugene McCarthy's 90th birthday, a rebroadcast of the special program featuring highlights of his appearances on MPR's Midday over the years.

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Ronald Reed guilty of murdering Officer Sackett

Ronald Reed guilty of murdering Officer Sackett

Ronald Reed has been sentenced to life in prison, after being found guilty of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit first degree murder in the 1970 shooting death of a St. Paul police officer.

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Trial for alleged cop killers to go back in time

The murder trial in the killing of St. Paul police officer James Sackett gets underway Monday. In 1970, Sackett was lured to a house by a fake 911 call, and then shot by a sniper.

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The secret life of Betty Crocker

A new book by a Minneapolis author looks behind the veil of one of America's most famous women -- Betty Crocker. She's 84 years old now, and she's had it all -- a career with a Fortune 500 company, a reputation as the ideal homemaker.

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St. John's remembers Sen. Eugene McCarthy

St. John's University in Collegeville is remembering the late Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who died in December 2005. McCarthy graduated from St. John's in 1935 and taught there in the 1940s, before moving on to a career in politics. McCarthy's friends and family say they knew the man as a student, teacher, poet and statesman.

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If these walls could talk...

An exhibit opening Jan. 14 at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul will allow visitors to explore history through the stories of people who lived in one house on the east side of St. Paul over the last 120 years.

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Revisiting Zebulon Pike's expedition to Minnesota

This winter marks the 200th anniversary of explorer Zebulon Pike's expedition to Minnesota. Some historians say Pike deserves more respect for that effort. But Pike is also a controversial figure in the eyes of Native Americans.

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Eugene McCarthy, who galvanized a generation of war opponents, dies

Former Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy, one of Minnesota's and the country's most influential political figures of the last century, has died. He was 89. McCarthy's opposition to the Vietnam War became his platform for an unsuccessful 1968 bid to win his party's presidential nomination. He lost to fellow Democrat and Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey, but the effort influenced American politics for years.

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Daughters of the game

The Grand Meadow high school girls' basketball team opens its season Tuesday night. The players take the court in the shadow of Grand Meadow girls' teams of an earlier era -- teams that compiled a 94-0 record between 1929 and 1939. That record has not been touched by any boys or girls high school basketball team -- before or since.

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