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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ROBERT REMINI, EMERITUS PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, ABOUT A DOCUMENT THAT PROVES THAT OUR SEVENTH PRESIDENT, ANDREW JACKSON, AS A YOUNG BUSINESSMAN LIVING IN SPANISH HELD TERRITORY, ONCE SIGNED AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE KING OF SPAIN.

SCOTT READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

SIMON/MITCHELL: WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REMEMBERS FILM ACTOR WOODY STRODE, WHO DIED LAST WEEKEND AT THE AGE OF 80.

SCOTT TALKS WITH 89-YEAR-OLD NORMAN VAUGHAN, JUST RETURNED FROM CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN THAT BEARS HIS NAME IN ANTARCTICA. VAUGHAN WAS PART OF ADMIRAL BYRD'S EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH POLE IN 1928, AND HAD ALWAYS VOWED TO RETURN TO THE MOUNTAIN NAMED AFTER HIM.

OUR GARDENING CONSULTANT, KETZEL LEVINE, SHOWS UP IN A MOST UNLIKELY PLACE THIS WEEK.

SCOTT TALKS WITH PETER GURALNICK, AUTHOR OF "LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS--THE RISE OF ELVIS PRESLEY" (LITTLE BROWN). THE BOOK TRACES THE FIRST 24 YEARS OF PRESLEY'S LIFE.

NPR's John Greenberg reports on the changing relationship between Washington and statehouses. The republican-controlled Congress has promised states that it will reduce the number of mandates it imposes on states.

THE FBI DISCIPLINES 12 AGENTS IN THE 1992 SHOOTING INCIDENT IN IDAHO.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH BILL MOYERS ABOUT HIS SPECIAL PROGRAM NEXT WEEK ON PUBLIC TELEVISION TITLED "WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT VIOLENCE?" ITS FOCUS IS ON VIOLENCE AND YOUNG PEOPLE, AND WHAT SOME COMMUNITIES ARE DOING TO CURB IT.

FROM MEXICO CITY, NPR'S DAVID WELNA REPORTS ON NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TWO HI PROFILE POLITICAL MURDER CASES, AND HOW THEY HAVE AFFECTED THAT COUNTRY'S AILING ECONOMY.