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Civil rights attorney and law professor JACK GREENBERG. He was just out of law school--a white Jewish man from the Bronx when he joined the fledgling NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). GREENBERG took over the helm of the LDF from his mentor Thurgood Marshall when Marshall was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeals. During GREENBERG'S tenure there, the LDF litigated some of the watershed cases of the civil rights struggle. He has just published a memoir of his 35 years at the LDF. It's called "Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution" (Basic Books).

2: ROBERT SHOPE, Co-chair of the Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health. Shope is also a physician and professor of epidemiology at the Yale University School of Medicine. SHOPE was part of the team that identifyied the virus that caused Lyme disease, and the rabies-related virus. Terry will talk with him about the on-going threat to our health by emerging viruses. SHOPE was also one of the editors of the book, "Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States." (National Academy Press

2: Editor JUSTIN KAPLAN. He edited the new edition of Bartlett's book of quotations. Formerly in the publishing business, KAPLAN has written biographies of Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain, two of the most often quoted men in American history. His biography, "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain" won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967. Bartlett's last edition was published in 1980. (Little, Brown and Co.) REBROADCAST. Originally aired 11/11/92.

Defensive lineman for the Atlanta Falcons, TIM GREEN. GREEN's written a novel, "Ruffians" (Turner), about a football star who's NFL experience is dominated by money and steroids. During football season, GREEN writes a weekly column for the "Syracuse Herald-Journal". Off season, GREEN attends law school. His sports commentaries can be heard occasionally on NPR

Executive producer and writer, TOM FONTANA. He was writer and producer for the TV show, "St. Elsewhere." He's currently executive producer along with filmmaker Barry Levinson, of "Homicide: Life on the Street," a new cop drama on NBC, that reviewers say goes beyond the usual formula offering, a "more complex psychological portrait." It's set in Baltimore. FONTANA is also the creator and executive producer of a new show to be aired this fall, "Philly Heat," on ABC.

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Writer JERRY STAHL. His new memoir is Permanent Midnight (Warner Bros). STAHL was a successful journalist, a scriptwriter for cult film classics like "Cafe Flesh," and "Dr. Caligari," who went on to write for the hit TV shows "Moonlighting," "ALF" and "thirtysomething." STAHL was also a junkie. His new memoir he writes, "You might say that success ruined me. You might say I ruined success." Tobias Wolff says of STAHL's book, "An original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time."

Epidemiologist DR. DONALD FRANCIS. In the mid 1970's he was in Sudan helping to contain the Ebola virus, which had then just been identified. FRANCIS was also on the forefront of research on AIDS and the HIV virus. He was director of the CDC's AIDS Laboratory Activities, and worked closely with the Institut Pasteur to prove that HIV was the cause of AIDS. FRANCIS is currently doing research to develop a vaccine for HIV. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Lois Smith Brady, the "Vows" olumnist for the Sunday New York Times newspaper. According to Brady, modern rides and grooms are moving away from the more traditional forms of wedding ress, guest favors, and gifts.

Jacki talks to NPR's Nina Totenberg about the life of Supereme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger. Burger, who died this morning in Washington, D.C. was Chief Justice of the Court for 17 years until he retired in 1986.

Jacki talks to film maker George Stoney and former cotton mill worker Lucille Thornburgh about the film the "Uprising of '34" to be aired on Public Television on Tuesday June 27th. Stoney tells how he wanted to let the people involved in the cotton strike tell their own story - and Lucille Thornburgh, now 85, was one of those that was there...

Major general LEWIS MACKENZIE. He commanded the United Nations Peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia until he retired in 1993. Since then MACKENZIE has been critical of the UN's ability to command and control its forces. His best-selling book Peacekeeper (HarperCollins) is now available in paperback and updated with two new chapters.