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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: The Senator and the Nazi

The FBI got that Edward Lundeen was an isolationist. What it didn’t understand was why this U.S. Senator for Minnesota was letting George Sylvester Viereck, the highest-paid German (Nazi) news agent, use his office, phone and senate postal privileges. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: Through the Lens of Edward S. Curtis

Life in post-Civil War Le Sueur County, Minnesota, was about survival for the young Edward S. Curtis. But he also developed an interest in photography and the First Peoples that would lead him years later to publish the 20-volume The North American Indian. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: Lunch with Vonnegut

In 1969, Peter Reed couldn’t help but hear about the new buzzy book, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Reed, was after all, a literature professor at the University of Minnesota. But then he went and wrote a book about Vonnegut. And then out of the blue Vonnegut called. Uh-oh. Was he mad? Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: The Coed Murders

It was just one of those summer break trips. Elizabeth Perry of Excelsior, Minnesota, and her friend celebrated the end of freshman year of college with a trip to Ocean City, New Jersey, for Memorial Day weekend 1969. And that’s where they were murdered. Fifty years later, no one has solved the Coed Murders. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: The Man who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?

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Frank Sheeran was sixty when he entered the federal correctional facility in Sandstone, Minnesota. He was just another mobster with a lockbox full of secrets. But this one, the FBI figured, held the key to the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: Dr. Chew’s Meat Locker

Actor James Wong grew up in Minneapolis, braving snow drifts and subzero cold. But nothing could prepare him for the Los Angeles meat locker that stood in for his character Dr. Chew’s laboratory while filming Blade Runner in 1981. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: Chernobyl, Minnesota

In 1986, a routine safety test resulted in the rupture of the Number 4 reactor in Chernobyl in the Soviet Union. Five thousand miles away and weeks later, Minnesota detected a radiation cloud floating overhead. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: What Minnesota Ate

The Federal Writers was winding down in 1940, when Minnesota writers were dispatched to report what and how people ate in their state for a proposed book, America Eats. Those essays would remain unpublished for over half a century. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: You’re a Quiet One, Dr. Seuss

Maurice Noble, born 1911 in Minnesota, had worked in Dr. Seuss’ animation unit during World War II. Back then Seuss was Major Theodore Geisel. Now in 1966, they were back together animating Seuss’ Grinch, and Noble still didn’t know what Geisel thought of his work. It would take a death and a doctor to find out. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: Cubby and the Country Star

Cubby was a black bear living peaceably at a wildlife park near Sandstone, Minnesota—until he got dental problems and his owner sold him for a canned hunt. His death made national news because the man who shot him was country music star Troy Gentry. Here’s producer Britt Aamodt.

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