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NPR'S JOANNE SILBERNER SPEAKS WITH DR. HENRY FOSTER, PRESIDENT CLINTON'S NOMINEE FOR SURGEON GENERAL, ON THE EVE OF HIS SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH CHIP BERLET, Ber-LAY) AN EXPERT ON MILITIAS AT THE POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ABOUT WHAT MAKES PEOPLE HATE SO FIERCELY. SCOTT ALSO TALKS WITH FRANK JORDAN, MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO, ABOUT WHAT HE IS DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT HAPPENED IN OKLAHOMA CITY DOESN'T HAPPEN IN HIS. KATIE WORSHAM OF H.U.D., WHO ONCE WORKED IN THE BOMBED MURRAH BUILDING, RETURNED THIS WEEK AS ACTING STATE DIRECTOR BECAUSE THE FORMER DIRECTOR WAS KILLED IN THE EXPLOSION. SCOTT SPEAKS WITH HER ABOUT HER FORMER COWORKERS WHO WERE VICTIMS OF THE BLAST. AND, SCOTT ALSO SPEAKS WITH JIM McNABB, PASTOR OF THE FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH, ABOUT A FELLOW PASTOR WHO WAS KILLED WHILE IN THE BUILDING.

Ayoka (eye-YOKE-uh) Medlock tells the story of raising her sister's four children in Richmond California. Medlock is a 19 year old college student and her report comes via Yough Radio, a journalism training program in Berkely, California.

SIMON/BIRMINGHAM BOMBING: SCOTT SIMON GOES BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, AND VISITS THE 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH WHICH WAS BOMBED ON SEPTEMBER 15, 1963. HE TALKS TO THE PERSON WHOSE TESTIMONY HELPED CONVICT ONE OF THE PERPETRATORS AND EXAMINES WHY NO FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS TOOK PLACE. (BOOK: LONG TIME COMING - AN INSIDER'S STORY OF THE BIRMINGHAM CHURCH BOMBING THAT ROCKED THE WORLD, WRITTEN BY ELIZABETH H. COBBS/PETRIC J. SMITH AND PUBLISHED BY CRANE HILL - BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA)

NPR's Howard Berkes reports from Phoenix, Arizona, where the National Rifle Association is continuing its annual meeting. Today, NRA executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre sought to distance his organization from the militias and paramilitary groups we've been hearing so much about since the Oklahoma City bombing.

NPR's John Burnett reports on how former President George Bush's resignation from the NRA has affected other members of the organization. This past week, Bush wrote a letter of resignation from the group saying he was offended by comments from one NRA leader who referred to federal agents as "jack-booted thugs" and compared them to Nazis. NRA members have had a variety of reactions to Bush's move with some agreeing that the rifle association has gone too far while others just say "good riddance" to the former president.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes last week's winner and challenges ur listeners with a new puzzle. 7:14 This week's on-air player lives in San Diego, California and listens to

Maker - NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on the case of Paul Kim, a high school senior in the Seattle suburbs who got into trouble because of a World Wide Web site he created on the Internet that made fun of his school. The site, which also included links to other Web sites that had sexually explicit material, was not connected to his school in any official way. Kim says that the principal of his high school stripped him of his chance to win a national merit scholarship because of the site.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY, ADOLPH HITLER MARRIED HIS LONG-TIME MISTRESS, EVA BRAUN.

IN OBSERVANCE OF THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MARTIN GOLDSMITH, HOST OF NPR'S PERFORMANCE TODAY, ABOUT COMMEMORATIVE MUSIC, ESPECIALLY THAT FORM OF MUSIC KNOWN AS THE "REQUIEM."