MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds

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MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds" is a history program airing on Ampers stations in Minnesota. It is a co-production of Ampers and the Minnesota Historical Society.

MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds" is a history program airing on Ampers stations in Minnesota. It is a co-production of Ampers and the Minnesota Historical Society.


788 Pieces

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MN90: Duck Tales
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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November 1989: Jim Hautman had grown up with a paintbrush in his hand. His mom was an artist. But, at twenty-five, did he even have a chance at win...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Gimme Some Truth
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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December 1980: John Lennon was dead. So Jon Wiener decided to write a book about the musician. What he never planned on was a tangle with the FBI o...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Dahlberg’s Watergate
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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April 1972: Ken Dahlberg was only doing his job as the Campaign to Re-Elect the President’s Midwest chairman: depositing an anonymous donation. So ...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Budd and Scott
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Early 1939: Newbie screenwriter Budd Schulberg couldn’t belive it. He was working with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Too bad they’d been given such a crummy...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: Cannibals at Paisley
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Winter 1988: The Fine Young Cannibals hadn’t put out a new album in over two years. Maybe working at a studio in Minnesota, away from distractions,...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Warhol’s Baggage
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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September 1975: Andy Warhol was in Minnesota to grace a film screening, attend a party and, unofficially, to lug around empty suitcases he was supp...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: In the Shadows
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1966: Kathryn Leigh Scott had snagged a role in a news soap opera. But Dark Shadows was unlike any daytime drama she’d ever seen. It had vampires. ...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: In Love and War
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August 1934: After Hitler kicked her out of Berlin, journalist Dorothy Thompson became headline news—unfortunately for her husband Sinclair Lewis w...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Liang May Seen’s Journey
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Summer 1892: Liang May Seen arrived in Minneapolis a newlywed with a bright future before her. Her past was another story. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Summer Guests
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August 1906 – The Earharts—mother, father and two girls—made the first of many summer pilgrimages from sweltering Kansas to balmy Worthington, Minn...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: The Last Album
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February 3, 1959 – Singer Bobby Vee was just fifteen when he filled in at the Moorhead concert for Buddy Holly and the other artists killed in a pl...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: The Feud
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October 1915 - John C. Freund just wanted to give his music lecture in Duluth. But a colleague from New York was in town and badmouthing him in th...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Jane Russell and the Outlaw
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1941 – Jane Russell, a 19-year-old with roots in Bemidji, felt like the luckiest girl alive to be plucked out of obscurity to star the new RKO pict...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: Codename Cynthia
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Fall 1962 – Betty Pack pored over an article about a wartime spy codenamed Cynthia. Pack and the article’s author both knew she was that spy. Here’...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Spider John Koerner and The Doors
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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1967 – The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger needed to come up with some songs for his group’s next album. Inspiration struck when he played with the r...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Runyon in the Ranks
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1898 – Minnesota troops were getting ready to board a ship that would take them to the Spanish-American War in the Philippines when they added a 17...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: The Drug Mule
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2018 – this was the second time Fridley, Minnesota, screenwriter Nick Schenk had worked with Clint Eastwood. The first was 2008’s “Gran Torino.” No...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: The Aviator’s Husband
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1942 – Famous aviator Beryl Markham published her memoir West with the Night, with a little help from her scriptwriter husband, Raoul Schumacher, f...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: The Last Call of John Wayne Gacy
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August 5, 1967 – Jimmie Haakenson called his mom from a Chicago phone booth. His St. Paul family never heard from him again. Because shortly after ...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: Hollywood Heyday
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1974, David Fantle and Tom Johnson were St. Paul middle school students when they fell in love with classic Hollywood films. And just four years...

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  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8

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