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One hundred years ago this weekend, Italian-American Gaetano Bresci assasinated the King of Italy, Umerto I. Scott speaks with Robert Viscusi who is a professor of English at Brooklyn College and President of the Italian-American Writers Association about the event.

Scott talks to Chicago fire commissioner James T. Joyce about that fire deparment's decision to retire the fire pole.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the Reverend Franklin Graham about his life and his ministry. Graham stands poised to inherit his father's Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone looks at the history of convention coverage - and the reasons for the declining interest in it - over the course of this century. It seems H.L. Mencken was just as disgruntled with conventions in the 1920's as was Ted Koppel four years ago.

Character actor JOHN C. REILLY. REILLY can currently be seen in the film –The Perfect Storm.— He's starred in all three of director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson's films. He played a small-time gambler In "Hard Eight," a porn star In "Boogie Nights," and a police officer In "Magnolia." –Magnolia— has just been released on video. REILLY has also worked with directors Brian DePalma ("Casualties of War") and Terrence Malik ("The Thin Red Line"). REILLY got his start in Chicago at the Goodman School of Drama and worked with the Steppenwolf theatre. ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 1/13/00 (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (1:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

A new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government shows that a significant number of voters who say they will vote for Mr. Bush or Mr. Gore also say they might change their minds. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

Peru's President Alberto Fujimori was sworn in for an unprecedented third term on Friday. Thousands of protesters clashed with police in riots that killed six people trapped in a burning bank. NPR's Madelit del Barco reports.

Scott speak with the "Math Guy," Keith Devlin, dean of science at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California, about Archimedes' palimpsest. Auctioned off two years ago, the recycled parchment holds the first clue into the connection between math and science.

Scott reads letters from listeners

On Friday the Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court for its official thoughts about pot. Two weeks ago a federal judge in San Francisco ruled there can be legitimate medical reasons to make the drug available legally. Now the Justice Department's action could set the stage for new rules about marijuana. Kai Ryssdal reports from San Francisco.