Historians and exhibit organizers Rob Okun, Richard Fried, and Peter Novick discuss the Spertus Museum’s exhibit “Unknown Secrets: Art and the Rosenberg Era.” Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were both convicted and executed in 1953 for participating in spy activity for the Soviet Union. Okun, Fried, and Novick discuss the Rosenberg case and the subsequent response from the public after the execution, many of whom felt the Rosenbergs were wrongfully convicted. The art in this exhibit captures the passion surrounding this case.

Ray Patlan and Mark Rogovin discuss mural art and the community engagement surrounding this artform. This program includes an audio clip of passers by commenting on the 1967 unveiling of Pablo Picasso’s Chicago sculpture and what they think it represents and the conversations it is meant to evoke. Studs reads Pete Seeger's introduction from Mark Rogovin, Marie Burton, and Holly Highfill’s book “Mural manual: How to paint murals for the classroom, community center, and street corner.”

Marshall McLuhan discusses a wide range of topics including conformity, changes in entertainment media, cultural change, art and artists, originality in dance, reading and language, human interaction with nature, and technology. Recorded in front of a live audience at Kendall College, McLuhan takes several questions from the audience throughout the program.

According to David Hockney, all photographs have perspective in them. With pictures, there is no time and there are no close ups, said Hockney. As for a picture on the television, Hockney said a picture of grief stricken poverty can bring on an emotional toll but then because the next picture of image appears, we immediately forget about the poverty image.

David Duncan Douglas traveled all over the world. Douglas' goal was to show the honesty of a person when taking his/her photograph. Taking pictures started out as a hobby for Douglas. He had captured some pictures of John Dillinger, but admitted that he didn't know who Dillinger was at the time.