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NPR's Margot Adler reports on a novel Federal ruling in which a New York judge has held that victims of handgun violence can sue the firearms industry to discover whether it failed to take steps to prevent sales to illegal buyers.

2: Jazz pianist and songwriter, DAVE FRISHBERG, sings his School House Rock classic, "I'm Just a Bill" . And LOU BARLOW, whose group The Deluxx Folk Implosion perform the contemporary version of "I'm Just a Bill" on the new release of School House Rock.

to lower the number of cars on the island during tourist season. In the past, any car in line for the ferry before a certain time was guaranteed passage to the island that day. But beginning tomorrow, reservations are required two weeks in advance for a space on the ferry.

In the Midwest, unemployment rates are at their lowest in decades. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that midwestern employers are offering competitive wages and benefits in order to attract enough workers.

A monument to journalists killed while performing their jobs was dedicated this week in Arlington, Virginia. Scott speaks with Peter Pritchard of the Freedom Forum, which sponsored the memorial. We also hear part of a speech from the ceremony, given by the mother of one of the journalists honored.

- On his 82nd birthday, Frankie Manning reminisces about how he came up with a new step for the Lindy Hop, a popular dance created by Shorty Snowden in 1927. Manning created his dance move in 1935 at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.

Eighty-six would-be summer blockbusters will be coming out between now and Labor Day. Critic Bob Mondello has a selective preview.

Scott Simon speaks with reporter Edmund Roy about the aftermath of elections in India.

Scott speaks with reporter Marius Benson, in Pretoria, about South Africa's adoption, this week, of a new constitution.

Scott talks with Mark Goodman, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center in Roslyn, VA about a recent incident at Louisianna State University where some minority students threw out all the copies of the free student paper because of articles it was running on the Ku Klux Klan.