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Tonight PBS debuts the documentary series, "America's War on Poverty: Untold Stories from the Front Line." The five-part series documents President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, which he declared during his State of the Union Address in January 1964. It included programs like Head Start, and Job Corps. Terry will talk with: 1) Executive Producer and President of Blackside, Inc., HENRY HAMPTON. He was also responsible for the Emmy Award-Winning PBS series, "Eyes on the Prize." 2) Journalist NICHOLAS LEHMANN. He served as consultant on the series. He's the author of "The Promised Land," about the migration of African-Americans from the South to the North. (Knopf

2: Actor NICHOLAS TURTURRO. He's a regular in the TV-series, "NYPD Blue," as the young detective James Martinez. TURTURRO is now starring in the new film, "Federal Hill." It's his first starring film role. He also had parts in Spike Lee's films (along with his brother, John) "Do the Right Thing," "Mo' Better Blues," and "Jungle Fever."

Former U.S. President JIMMY CARTER. He's written eight books since his presidency, including several memoirs. His newest book is a collection of his poems, "Always a Reckoning: and other Poems," (Random House). Terry will talk with him about his poetry, and about his diplomacy work, most recently, negotiating agreements in Bosnia and Haiti. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF

2: 1) LYNN MUNSON is former Special Assistant to Chairman Lynn Cheney at the NEA, under President Bush. She is now a Research Associate at the American Enterprise Institute, a Conservative Think Tank. 2) PAUL GOLDBERGER is The New York Times' Chief Cultural Correspondent. He is also a former architecture critic. (GOLDBERGER's interview continues after the ATC promo).

House speaker Newt Gingrich has called for abolishing the National Endowment for the Arts. We discuss the pros and cons of federal funding of the Arts with: 1) Art critic HILTON KRAMER. He is the founder of the Arts magazine, "The New Criterion," and is former chief art critic for The New York Times. He has also published several volumes of criticism. KRAMER is against federal funding for the arts. 2) JOHN BRADEMUS is Chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and former Democratic Congressman from Indiana. He also helped write the legislation that created the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Dookie," the debut album by the band Green Day.

Journalists MICHELLE SLATALLA and JOSHUA QUITTNER both work for Newsday. They've collaborated on a new book, "Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace," (HarperCollins). It's about two rival gangs of teenage computer hackers in New York City: Masters of Deception and the Legion of Doom. The gangs, broke into phone company computers, downloaded confidential credit histories, and broke into private and corporate computer files. The rivalry was friendly until a computer remark by one hacker set off a "gang war." (MORE ON THE COMPUTER GANGS IN THE SECOND

Jacki talks with nationally syndicated political cartoonists Tom Toles of the Buffalo News and U.S. News & World Report....and Ed Gamble of the Florida Times-Union...about the state of political cartooning today. They say today there's more material and more cartoonists than ever before.

Daniel talks to David Rydowski, a lawyer in Philadelphia, and Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Florida) about the crime legislation passed by the House of Representatives this week. It allows for some evidence acquired improperly to be allowed in court. McCollum says that people are tired of criminals avoiding convictions on technicalities, but Rydowski is afraid that it would be a a violation of the Constitutional protection against illegal search and seizure.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.