Walking for Peace
On beautiful summer afternoon in 1958, seventy men, women and children staged a “Peace Walk” through downtown Minneapolis to demonstrate against nuclear weapons testing. Peace Walks were organized by citizen groups in America and the Soviet Union. The marches were part of a variety of initiatives aimed at promoting nuclear disarmament through direct diplomacy [...]
George Putnam Presents “Perversion for Profit”
Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, George Putnam began his radio career at WDGY in Minneapolis when he was in his twenties. In 1951 he moved to Los Angeles and switched to television. Putnam hosted the highest rated newscast in California and anchored all four of Los Angeles’ major independent stations. He is fondly remembered for [...]
Justice.
I assume that no one will take issue with me when I say that these North European countries are as enlightened as the United States in the value they place on the individual and on human dignity. [Those countries] do not consider it necessary to use a device like our Fifth Amendment, under which an [...]
