May 9th, 2005 · The congressman who presided over the Nixon impeachment hearings has died. Democrat Peter Rodino was 95. Melissa Block talks with attorney John Doar about Rodino, who served 40 years in Congress and was the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate era.
Apr 28th, 2005 · NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Casey Johnson of The Chicago Tribune about the dramatic resurgence of the National Basketball Association's former powerhouse team, the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls are making a successful run in this year's NBA playoffs in their first post-season appearance since the end of the Michael Jordan era.
Apr 28th, 2005 · Voiceover artist and actor Mason Adams, best known for his roles on TV's Lou Grant and the Smucker's commercials, died this week at age 86. We speak with Vietnam-era DJ Adrian Cronauer about Adams' professional legacy.
Apr 11th, 2005 · In the late 1950s, photographer O. Winston Link decided to document the end of an era -- steam-powered trains in pictures and sound recordings. Link's assistant recalls some of the scenes they captured in the Virginia mountains.
Apr 10th, 2005 · Fifty years ago this week scientists announced the discovery of the polio vaccine. The disease -- also known as infantile paralysis -- affected thousands of children annually. Polio survivor Brian Fitzgerald tells Jennifer Ludden about his memories of the era before Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine.
Apr 9th, 2005 · The era of the slide projector is all but forgotten in the digital age. Now a new exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art reminds us of how the simple mechanical device has the potential to astound and enlighten art lovers.
Apr 2nd, 2005 · A French-style '60s band has taken New York by storm. But most of the members of Les Sans Culottes are Americans. Their act is a musical takeoff on the French pop music of an era far more famous in America for the British invasion led by The Beatles.
Apr 1st, 2005 · Edward Conlon's memoir, Blue Blood (now out in paperback) begins with his first days on the street as a cop and goes back three generations. His great-grandfather was a an "officer of dubious integrity" during the Tammany-era NYPD. Conlon also wrote the Cop Diary columns in The New Yorker, and is a graduate of Harvard. This interview was originally broadcast on April 14, 2004.