Program includes an excerpt from Hard Times (T3452B).

Studs examines the history of crime in our nation, with the author of The American Way of Crime: From Salem to Watergate, a Stunning New Perspective on American History. The program includes a clip of Gaynell Begley talking about controversial land disputes and strip mining rights in Kentucky.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

MacMichael testified in front of the World Court at the Hague in 1985 about the United States government's activities with anti-Sandinista contra forces in Nicaragua and President Reagan's knowledge of such events.

Stockwell resigned his position with the CIA in 1977 after managing covert activities in Angola, and has subsequently worked to reveal to the public the CIA's role in Third World politics.

Discussing "Afro-American cross-currents" and interviewing St. Clair Drake, George Shepperson and Professor Lorenzo Turner.

Interviewing author and journalist Jeff Cohen.

Discussing the book "Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War," (published by Murrow) with the author, humanist and physician Dr. Helen Caldicott. Program also includes the opening of Studs' inaugural address.

Interviewing Vietnam veterans and peace activists Dr. Charles Clements and Asa Baber.

Discussing the book "While Reagan Slept" (published by Putnam) with the author, satirist Art Buchwald.