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Scott remembers Walter Hyatt, the country singer who died in the Valuejet airline crash last Saturday.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on LSD guru Timothy Leary's progress toward cyberspace suicide.

Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Community Affairs Richard Holbrooke testified today at a hearing before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, which has begun hearings to determine whether the White House complied with federal law on covert activities in relation to the shipment of Iranian arms to Bosnia. Linda talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about the committee's progress, and what the committee's findings might mean for American foreign policy.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that Senator Bob Dole gave a speech today on his plans to reform the welfare system if he is elected President. The presumptive Republican nominee called for a five-year lifetime limit on receiving welfare benefits and said states should have the option of testing recipients for drugs. He criticized President Clinton for failing to reform welfare, as Clinton had promised to do before being elected to the White House.

Scott remembers Timothy Leary who died ths week.

Scott talks to Aileen (pronounced Eileen) Riggin Soule (sool), who won the Gold Medal for springboard diving in the 1920 Olympics. At the age of 90, she's still competing... and winning.

Linda has an obituary for 1940's Western film star Lash LaRue. His death was announced earlier today.

Reviewer Daisann McLane reviews "The Secret Museum of Mankind", a two volume compact disc compilation featuring rare ethnic music from the years 1925 - 1948. The man who compiled the collection has been acquiring 78s at thrift shops, yard sales, and estate sales for decades. "The Secret Museum of Mankind" is available through Yazoo Records, catalog number 7004. (7:30) (S

Scott talks over the details of the Plessy vs. Ferguson case with New Orleans writer Keith Medley.

Linda talks with Matt Coles of the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights Project. He was one of the attorneys who argued the Gay Rights case in front of the Supreme Court and says that this ruling makes the constituition real for gays and lesbians. The ruling, he says, means that government can't disadvantage people simply because it doesn't like them.