I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT WHEN I THINK OF ALMANAC, I THINK OF CHEESE TEAK FOLLOWING MOSTLY BECAUSE I'M THE GUY WHO GETS STUCK DOING IT.

ALMANAC HAS A LONG TRACK RECORD OF INNOVATIONS IN VIDEO OR AUDIO THAT NEVER QUITE CAUGHT ON.

IT ALL BEGAN WITH OUR VERY FIRST SHOW.

HERE'S HOST JOE SUMMERS ON ALMANAC'S VERY FIRST PROGRAM TOUTING THE BENEFITS OF SOMETHING WE CALLED DATA BURST.

>> NOW HERE'S THE MOMENT THAT YOU WHO OWN VCRs WITH FREEZE FRAME ADVANCE HAVE BEEN VACATING FOR.

WE'RE GOING TO TRANSMIT THE ENTIRE TEXT OF LAST MONTH'S "STAR TRIBUNE"'S KATHLEEN MORRIS STORY THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER TONIGHT.

THOSE OF YOU AT HOME WHO DON'T HAVE VCRs CAN SHUT YOUR EYES FOR A FEW SECONDS.

>> YEAH, THE INTERNET PRETTY MUCH DID MAKE ALL DATA BURST OBSOLETE.

IT CAUSED THE DEMISE OF COLORFUL ART BURST FEATURE BUT MY PERSONAL FAVORITE TECHNOLOGICAL TOM FOOLERY OVER THE YEARS WAS SOMETHING CALLED SAP WHICH WE UNVEILED TO VIEWERS BACK IN 1994.

>> IF YOU HAVE A STEREO TV OR VCR, USE THE REMOTE NOW TO SWITCH THE AUDIO TO SAP, THAT'S SECOND AUDIO PROGRAM.

IF YOU DO, YOU'LL HAVE ALMANAC PICTURE BUT A VERY DIFFERENT BACK STAGE ALTERNATIVE KIND OF AUDIO.

THE BOTTOM LINE, WE WERE DOING TO 2 PROGRAMS AT ONCE BUT THEN WE DISCOVERED MANY VIEWERS WOULD GET THE WRONG AUDIO WITH THE WRONG PICTURE AND IT WASN'T A PRETTY SITE.

>> IT WORKS.

>> THEN THERE WAS THE NIGHT THAT WE DECIDED TO JUMP INTO THE 3D CRAZE.

WELL, KNOWING US, WE DECIDED TO DO IT ON THE CHEAP.

SOME OF THE STAFF WAS SICK FOR A SOLID WEEK.

>> DON'T RUN THE TAPE BACK AND FORTH, YOU WILL GET SICK.

SHIPCALLY WE HAVE CHEESEY THINGS LIKE ARROWS COMING OUT AT YOU, OR DARTS, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO MESS WITH YOU QUITE THAT MUCH ON ALMANAC.

WE NOW RETURN TO OUR REGULAR TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROGRAMMING.

>> THAT WAS NOTHING.

WE HAVE TWO TV STATION TOSS PLAY WITH.

REMEMBER AT THE BEGINNING, WE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE TWO TV, CHANNEL 2 ON THE YOUR LEFT, THE COMPUTER MONITOR ON THE RIGHT?

HERE'S THE PAYOFF.

I'LL THROW THIS BALL FROM CHANNEL 17 TO CHANNEL 2 AND ERIC ESKOLA ON THE OTHER ENDS OF THE COUCH, WE ARE NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME THROWING OBJECTS BETWEEN FREQUENCIES, BETWEEN TELEVISION STATIONS.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE TECHNICALLY CHALLENGED, THE WIDE SCREEN SPLIT VIEW, DO YOU GO THIS IN REALTIME IN 3D.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

WE'RE SO GLAD YOU COULD BE MART OF THIS.

>> A MINUTE OF OUR LIVES WE'LL NEVER GET BACK.

>> AND YOU WERE THERE.

>> PUBLISHED AND ARTICLE ABOUT WOMEN RUNNING FOR OFFICE ACROSS THE NAG AND USING CRACK RESEARCH TEAMS -- MARLENE JOHNSON AND STATE AUDITOR ANNE CARLSON WHICH LED US TO ONE OF THE IN AND OUT'ER DISCUSSIONS WE'VE HAD ON THE SHOW AND OF COURSE ONE OF OUR FAVORITE ONES.

>> I GUESS I NEED TO START OUT WITH HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO RAISE MONEY AS A FEMALE, PARTICULARLY WHEN ACTUALLY MOST PEOPLE CALL YOU ARNE, I BELIEVE, INSTEAD OF ANNE, IS THAT NOT CORRECT?

>> YES.

RAISING MONEY FRANKLY NO MATTER WHAT SEX I AM HAS BEEN A PROBLEM.

[ Laughter ] >> SURE STOPPED THAT.

>> PAST FEW MONTHS, WE FEATURE -- FEATURED MINNESOTA MOMENTS OF THE LAST SCENE TRY.

WE ASKED HY BERMAN TO COME UP WITH FIVE FAVORITE HISTORIC EVENTS.

SO FAR HIS LIST HAS CLUED THESE, 91934 TRUCKER'S STRIKE, HAROLD STASSEN AND THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF OUR STATE.

MINNESOTA HAS THE HOME OF THE SHOPPING MALL.

AND THE STATE'S PENCHANT FOR THIRD PARTY MOVEMENTS.

TONIGHT, HY BERMAN IS BACK TO UNVEIL HIS MOST FAVORITE EVENT OF THE CENTURY.

HY, THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT SERIES.

STARTS WITH PRETTY SERIOUS STUFF, A MOOD OF ANTI-SEM MISS IMIN MINNEAPOLIS.

>> YES, IN 1900 AND 46, LET'S SET THE STAGE.

THIS IS THE END OF WORLD WAR II, THE DEATH CAMPS AND EXTERMINATION CAMPS ARE BEING SHOWN ON MOTION PICTURE SCREENS.

ALONG COMES A MAGAZINE ARTICLE WRITTEN BY A DISTINGUISHED JOURNALIST BY THE NAME OF CARRIE McWILLIAMS, AND THIS WAS CALLED THE CURIOUS TWINS WHICH REVEALED THAT MINNEAPOLIS, NOW THAT BERLIN WAS GONE, WAS THE WORLD CAPITAL OF ANTI-SEMITISIM, AND INTO THIS HERE COMES THE NEW MAYOR OF MINNEAPOLIS, HUBERT HUMPHREY, NOT PREPARED TO DEAL WITH THIS ISSUE, I BET.

>> NOT AT ALL.

THIS CAME AS A SHOCK TO HIM, NOT THAT HE WOULD KNOW THESE THINGS BUT HE NEVER PUT THEM TOGETHER THE WAY CARRIE McWILLIAMS DHE CAME AND WAS SHOCKED AND THE WHOLE -- ALL THE CITIZENS OF MINNEAPOLIS AND THE STATE WERE SHOCKED.

AFTER ALL, GENTEEL ANTI-SEMITISIM, BIG OH TRY LEADS TO GENOCIDE.

THEREFORE, SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE TO REVERSE THAT TREND.

>> WHAT HAPPENED?

>> HUBERT HUMPHREY APPOINTED A COMMISSION, THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES THAT A HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION WAS APPOINTED HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS.

>> WHAT STEPS DID IT TAKE?

>> THE STEPS TO RESEARCH TO SEE WHAT WAS IN FACT THE FACTS, TO TAKE ACTION TO REVERSE THE FACTS.

SO IT DID ITS BEST TO ELIMINATE THE DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN HIRING THAT EXISTED IN SITTING AGENCIES, MINNEAPOLIS SCHOOLS THAT WERE HIRED IN JUNE.

>> NOW, THAT'S PROFOUND BUT MOVING AHEAD A LITTLE BIT WE GET TO THE NUT OF THE STORY AND THAT IS THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA IN 194, MAYOR LEUBT HUMPHREY COMES TO THAT CONVENTION WITH WHAT AGENDA?

>> MAYOR HUBERT HUMPHREY SEES THE EFFECTS OF HIS WORK IN MINNEAPOLIS AND MAKES THIS A CENTRAL PART OF HIS POLITICAL AGENDA, TO WIT, TO END DISCRIMINATION AT LEAST A LEGAL BASES FOR DISCRIMINATION AND SEGREGATION IN SOCIETY.

TOGETHER WITH COLLEAGUES FROM AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, HE CHALLENGES TRUEMAN AT THE CONVENTION.

HE'S THE SITTING PRESIDENT, CHALLENGING TRUMAN TO GET THE CONVENTION TO PASS A STRONG CIVIL RIGHTS PLANK AND OF COURSE -- >> WE'LL LISTEN TO IT HERE.

HOSPITAL HUBERT HUMPHREY AT THE 48th DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

>> THE TIME HAS ARRIVED IN AMERICA FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO GET OUT OF THE SHADOWS OF STATES' RIGHTS AND TO WALK FORTHRIGHTLY INTO THE SHADE DO OF HUMAN RIGHTS MUCH >> THIS ELECTRIFIED THE CONVENTION AND THEY DID SOMETHING UNPRECEDENTED IN NATIONAL HISTORY.

IT WENT AGAINST ITS SITTING PRESIDENT.

>> A DEMOCRATIC WALKOUT, SPLINTER GROUP.

>> SPLINTER GROUP, THE SOUTHERNERS, THE DIXIE-CRATS, LED BY STROM THURMOND OWNED EVERYBODY CONCLUDED IT WAS A DEAD DOG POLITICALLY.

>> WHAT WAS ITS ABOUT HUMPHREY, HY, THAT LED HIM TO TAKE SUCH A STRONG CIVIL RIGHTS STANCE?

>> I THINK BASICALLY HIS EXPERIENCE IN MINNEAPOLIS, THE FACT THAT IT BECAME CLEAR TO HIM THAT AS SEGREGATION AND APARTHEID WERE IN FACT A POLICY THAT AFFECTED THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF ALL MINNESOTANS AND OF ALL AMERICANS.

HE WAS DEDICATED AND COMMITTED TO IT.

IN FACT, THE BUG HIT TRUMAN.

A MONTH AFTER -- >> WHY DID YOU PICK THIS AS THE MOMENT OF MINNESOTA HISTORY?

>> BECAUSE THIS MOMENT SHOWS THAT MINNESOTA'S HISTORY HAS AN EFFECT ON THE NATIONAL TREND AND NATIONAL EXPERIENCE.

AFTER ALL, HUBERT HUMPHREY LED THE FIGHT TO END SEG GAG IN THE UNITED STATES.

THE UNITED STATES WAS MORE APARTHEID THAN ANY OTHER NATION IN THE WORLD, INCLUDING SOUTH AFRICA AT THE END OF THE WAR AND HE SUCCESSFULLY CARRIED THROUGH THAT FIGHT THROUGH CONGRESS, THROUGH LEGISLATION.

NOW, OBVIOUSLY THE FIGHT WAS SUCCESSFUL IN TERMS OF THE LEGAL SIDE.

DISCRIMINATION DIDN'T END BUT LEGAL DISCRIMINATION DID AND THAT I THINK IS AN IMPORTANT MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE STATE, THE HISTORY OF THE NATION AND THE FRIENDSHIP TO THE WORLD.

>> HY, IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE.

>> YOU'VE SUCH A GREAT FRIEND OF THE SHOW.

>> THIS IS A GREAT 15th AROUND VERSE REAND I'M PLEASED TO BE PART OF IT.

>> THANK YOU, PROFESSOR.

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