Episode
Former U.S. Senator Fred Harris, plus Gene Grant and the Line panel
This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Russell Contreras interview former U.S. Senator Fred Harris. The Corrales, NM, resident was Oklahoma’s U.S. Senator from 1964 to 1973 and was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission. The Commission’s report, which came out…
Read MoreSome of our favorite interviews and stories from the past year
This week on New Mexico in Focus, in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday we’re bringing you some of our favorite interviews and stories from the past year. Correspondent Russell Contreras sat down in May with photographer and New Mexico resident Maria Varela to talk about her experience photographing voting rights demonstrations in Alabama. Varela also…
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