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.


679 Pieces

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MN90: Summer Guests
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: 9
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: 9
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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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: 8
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
MN90: Shock Theater
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1958, Minnesota got a shock. Classic horror films were introduced to a new generation of TV viewers courtesy of Shock Theater and local creature...

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  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Steinbeck’s Biographer
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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2016 – William Souder was in the early stages of researching at his home in Grant, Minnesota. He wanted to write the first major biography of John ...

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  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: The Genesis of Artist George Morrison
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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When George Morrison was ten, he was living away from his Chippewa (Ojibwe) community in Minnesota’s Arrowhead, convalescing in a children’s hospit...

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  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 7
MN90: The Mayor and the Ku Klux Klan
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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1923 – George Leach wanted to be re-elected mayor of Minneapolis. But he’d enraged the Ku Klux Klan and they were determined to drum him out of off...

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  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: As You Like Val
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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One day, Val Kilmer would be a huge name in film, with roles in Top Gun and The Doors, among other heavy hitters. But in late 1981, he was just a J...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: Freedom's Roots
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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2010 – At long last, fans of Jonathan Franzen’s “The Corrections” had his new book in their hands. In Freedom, the Missouri author plumbed his par...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Hubert's Opening Act
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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1968 – Hubert Humphrey faced an uphill climb to snag the presidency of the United States. But he thought a little music, courtesy of Tommy James & ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Charles Chamblis’s Minneapolis
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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1958 – Charles Chamblis, a World War II vet and artist, moved to Minneapolis with his family and with a camera. For the next thirty years, he would...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: The Kidnapping Racket
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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1934 – The Great Depression was hard on everybody, even gangsters. FDR had legalized booze. With bootlegging no longer an option, Alvin Karpis and ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 7

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