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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FRANK BEACHEM, A WRITER WHO GREW UP IN HONEA (HUN-nee-uh) PATH, SOUTH CAROLINA, WHERE, IN SEPTEMBER OF 1934, STRIKING UNION COTTON MILL WORKERS GATHERED FOR A RALLY AT THE CHIQUOLA (sheh-KO-lah) MILL. A BLOODY CONFRONTATION RESULTED, 7 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, 17 WERE INJURED, AND THE STRIKE WAS BROKEN. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS TO MR. BEACHAM ABOUT A REVELATION THAT CONNECTS HIM TO THE SHOOTING AND ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY "THE UPRISING OF '34) BY GEORGE STONEY, JUDITH HELFAND AND SUSANNE ROSTOCK, WHICH WILL BE AIRED ON MONDAY FOR THE PEOPLE IN HONEA PATH AND ON PUBLIC TELEVISION'S DOCUMENTARY SERIES P.O.V. ON JUNE 27, 1995.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller. (HarperCo

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Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews the new Helen Merrill release,"Brownie," a tribute to Clifford Browne, on the Verve label.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistead reports that it's been nearly a year after the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam has been lifted. One of the more unusual new joint ventures has been the importation of Holstein cows.

2: From the new documentary "Twitch and Shout," the associate producer/narrator LOWELL HANDLER. HANDLER is a photojournalist and has Tourette's Syndrome. The film is about people with TS. HANDLER has traveled the world photographing people with TS. A photojournalism story HANDLER published in Life magazine caught the idea of the film's director, who then approached HANDLER about doing the documentary.

2:British actress VANESSA REDGRAVE. She's appeared in over 50 films, including "Morgan!", "Blow Up", "Julia" and "Howards End". Her stage work has included Shakespeare, Checkhov, Noel Coward and Tennessee Williams. She comes from a celebrated theater family, and her daughters (Natasha and Joely Richardson) are both actresses. VANESSA REDGRAVE is also well known for her political activism, including support for Nuclear Disarmament and Palestinian causes. Her memoirs have just been published by Random House.

Jacki talks with nationally syndicated political cartoonists Tom Toles of the Buffalo News and U.S. News & World Report....and Ed Gamble of the Florida Times-Union...about the state of political cartooning today. They say today there's more material and more cartoonists than ever before.

It's been almost six years since the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death sentence against writer SALMAN RUSHDIE. Since then he's lived in hiding, continuing to write, and to make a few semi-public appearances. His book, "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," published in 1990 was a fairy tale written for his son. His new book is collection of stories about the line that divides East and West, migrancy, exile, and the notion of home, "East, West" (Pantheon). Terry also talked with RUSHDIE in 1990 and 1992. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

Tonight PBS debuts the documentary series, "America's War on Poverty: Untold Stories from the Front Line." The five-part series documents President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, which he declared during his State of the Union Address in January 1964. It included programs like Head Start, and Job Corps. Terry will talk with: 1) Executive Producer and President of Blackside, Inc., HENRY HAMPTON. He was also responsible for the Emmy Award-Winning PBS series, "Eyes on the Prize." 2) Journalist NICHOLAS LEHMANN. He served as consultant on the series. He's the author of "The Promised Land," about the migration of African-Americans from the South to the North. (Knopf

2: Actor NICHOLAS TURTURRO. He's a regular in the TV-series, "NYPD Blue," as the young detective James Martinez. TURTURRO is now starring in the new film, "Federal Hill." It's his first starring film role. He also had parts in Spike Lee's films (along with his brother, John) "Do the Right Thing," "Mo' Better Blues," and "Jungle Fever."

Actor ANDRE BRAUGHER (rhymes with "flower"). In the NBC series, "Homicide," he plays the shaved-headed Detective Frank Pembleton, a man described as "eloquent but icy." BRAUGHER was educated at Julliard and is an experienced Shakespearean actor. His other acting credits include, the film, "Glory," and the TNT special, "The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson."