Long before Sesame Street, Mister Rogers, or even Captain Kangaroo, there was Howdy Doody. Its creator was a young radio broadcaster nicknamed Buffalo Bob Smith.

In this nostalgic and engaging 1990 interview, Smith tells the story of Howdy. And dispels a few myths.

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Happy Pride! A vintage conversation today with a major figure inLGBTQ lierature.

E. Lynn Harris quit his job as a computer salesman in 1990 to begin a full-time writing career. His first novel, Invisible Life, won widespread acclaim. His second book was Just As I Am, and that was when I firstmet and interviewed him.

In this 1995 interview Harris faces the struggles a gay black author os up against, and how he got past them.

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The architect of a controversial conservative organization.

Project Veritas was started by then-26-year-old James O'Keefe in 2010. His secretly recorded and heavily edited videos were embraced by many conservatives eager to expose what they saw as liberal or leftist misdeeds.

In this2013 interview O'Keefe defends Prokect Veritas's methods and results. But don't infer from the nature of my questions in this interview that I endorsed Project Veritas or its methods.

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Happy Juneteenth.

In 1994, historian and writer Louise Meriwether wrote a novel based on the true story of one slave's sourage and ingenuity in the Civil War.

In this 1994 interview, Meriwether brings to life the story of Robert Smalls, detailing how she put flesh and blood on the dry bones of forgotten history.

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A popular TV personality's Fathers Day card to his dad.

Tim Russert hosted NBC's Meet The Press for 17 years, but never forgot where he came from.

In this 2004 interview, Russert offers a son's grateful praise for his father,m "Big Russ," a World War II veteran who worked two jobs to support his family. Russert shows how Big Russ built him into the successful man he became.

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She heard Trump's "you're fired" twice.

Omarosa was one of the contestants on Season 1 of "The Apprentice," the reality show hosted by Donald Trump. Later, she worked for Trump in the WhiteHouse.

In this 2008 interview, Omarosa offers her advice to women who want to get ahead in business. Her counsel: know when to be a b***h.

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Medgar Evers's widow carries on the fight.

60 years ago tonight a white supremacist and KKK leader gun down a civil rights leader named Medgar Evers outside his own home, leaving his wife Myrlie a widow at age 30.

In this 1999 interview, Myrlie Evers Williams explains why her husband's senseless death didn't beak her, and how she has made the most of her God-given strengths.

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His courage helped end homophobic FBI hiring.

During a 20-year FBI career, Frank Buttino became one of the agency's most trusted agents. But he had a secret – he was gay. And eventually that cost him his job.

In this 199 3. Interview Buttino discusses his life as a closeted gay man in the FBI, and how his coming out opened the door for many others..

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"Sex And The City" is 25.

It was this week in 1998 that HBO viewers were introduced to Carrie Bradshaw and her friends, in the series Sex And The City. It's creator, journalist Candace Bushnell.

Bushnell had a lifelong ambition to be a novelist. In this 2003 interview, she talks about her first published novel.

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The Olympic champion who was an eyewitness to an American tragedy.

Rafer Johnson won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1960 Olympic games. He later had a very successful career as an actor. And in the 1960s, he became politically active.

He was in the kitchen at the ambassador hotel that night in June, 1968 when Robert f. Kennedy was assassinated. As you'll hear in this 19 98 interview..

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