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Two time Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, NORMAN MAILER, joins us to talk about his new book Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (Random House 1995. non-fiction) Mailer says we must ask "Who was Oswald?" as a prelude to asking "Who killed JFK?". The book profiles Lee Harvey Oswald's life.... Mailer published his first book in 1948. The Naked and the Dead Oswald's Tale... is Mailer's 28th book. In 1968, He won a Pulitzer Prize for Armies of the Night and was again a Pulitzer recipient in 1980 for The Executioner's Song. He is co-founder of The Village Voice and was president of AMERICAN PEN from 1984 to 1986.

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.

ECONOMY: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FORTUNE MAGAZINE COLUMNIST JOE NOCERA ABOUT THE ANNOUNCEMENT THIS WEEK THAT THE U.S. WILL, AGAIN, IMPLIMENT SANCTIONS AGAINST JAPAN, THIS TIME AGAINST LUXURY CARS, IN RETALIATION FOR ALLEGEDLY UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON HOW OKLAHOMANS ARE COPING WITH THE AFTERMATH THE THE BOMBIMG ON APRIL 19TH, AND HOW THAT TRAGEDY MAY HELP CHANGE OLD OKLAHOMAN STEREOTYPES.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller. (HarperCo

2: We'll then hear from IQBAL RIZA (EEK-bahl-Ree-zah). He is Assistant Secretary of General for Peace Keeping Operations for the United Nations. He talks about the UN's role in Rwanda.

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."

SCOTT SIMON GOES TO A SUBURB OF SALT LAKE CITY TO VISIT WITH TENZIN DHONG (TEN-zin DONG-hah) AND HIS FAMILY. THE 6-YEAR-OLD CHILD IS BELIEVED TO BE THE REINCARNATION OF A HIGH TIBETIAN BUDDHIST LAMA...WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE HIS OWN GRANDFATHER.

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.