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MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds a fun exploration of wide-ranging topics including sports, politics, environment, business, entertainment, pop culture, and more.
MN90 is fun exploration of wide-ranging topics including sports, politics, environment, business, entertainment, pop culture, and more.

MN90: Roy Wilkins, the Civil Rights Act and LBJ

Roy Wilkins earned his professional chops as a Twin Cities journalist. But it was as an activist and director of the NAACP, says producer Britt Aamodt, that Wilkins helped change history with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

MN90: Tom Nelson vs. the Ghost Bird

Tom Nelson was an electrical engineer living in Minnesota who got involved in a birding controversy. Britt Aamodt reports how the engineer weighed on the resurrection of the ivory-billed woodpecker, believed extinct for over 70 years.

MN90: The Val Johnson UFO in Warren, Minnesota

August 27, 1979, deputy Val Johnson was on a regular night patrol in Warren, Minnesota, when a light came at him. Britt Aamodt gives the details on the Val Johnson UFO case.

MN90: Pixar’s Minneapolis Debut

Before Pixar was one of the top animation firms in the world, it was a subsidiary of George Lucas’s Lucasfilm Ltd. Britt Aamodt tells us how, in 1984, the fledgling company made their animation short debut in Minneapolis.

MN90: Michael Koppelman and the 11-Billion-Year-Old Gamma Ray

Michael Koppelman has a foot in two worlds. He was engineer and producer for Prince. But he was also an amateur astronomer who, says Britt Aamodt, caught on film the death of a star that took place long before the earth was formed.

MN90: Man in Black – Jesse Ventura on X-Files

After he was a professional wrestler but before he was governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura made a cameo appearance on X-Files. Ventura may not have totally got his role in “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space,” but, says producer Britt Aamodt, X-Files fans still consider the episode one of their all-time favorites.


MN90: Duluth Passengers on the RMS Titanic

The RMS Titanic is probably the most famous ship in history. On April 14, 1912, an iceberg sent over 1,500 people to their deaths. Britt Aamodt introduces us to three Titanic passengers from Duluth.

MN90: Minnesota’s State Bird

It isn’t a Minnesota summer with the sound of a loon coming off the lake. Producer Britt Aamodt wonders what are all those sounds the loon makes and what do they mean?

MN90: Neil Gaiman’s Minnesota Gods?

Neil Gaiman may have been born in England, but he’s owned a house in Wisconsin for years. Britt Aamodt also discovered that Gaiman has spent a good deal of time in Minneapolis and that his Midwestern sojourns have made an imprint on his most famous novel, American Gods.

MN90: Brainerd’s Bataan Death March

Brainerd, Minnesota, couldn’t be farther from the Philippines. But, says Britt Aamodt, every year the city remembers the Minnesota guardsmen who fought there in World War II and ended up walking the 85-mile Bataan Death March.

MN90: David Carr and the Night of the Gun

Before his death in 2015, David Carr was a larger-than-life columnist at the New York Times. But when he decided to write a memoir, says Britt Aamodt, Carr looked back at his Twin Cities days and the night of the gun.


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