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BOOM - Songwriter Jimmy Keyes died this past week. He wrote and performed the classic rhythm and blues song SH-BOOM in the 1950's, when he was with a group called The Chords. The song was one of the first r and b standards to cross over into the main commercial market.

NPR'S MARA LAISSON REPORTS ON THE ANNUAL GROUP OF SEVEN SUMMIT NOW BEING HELD IN HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA.

Ever since the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have visited the extraordinary collection of exhibits. But museum organizers noticed that missing among the visitors were D.C. public school kids. And so they developed a program that would bring local young people to the museum where they could not only learn about the holocaust but eventually get a job at the museum. Daniel visits with some of these high school students during one of their 10 week courses and discovers how the program has not only changed the way these teenagers view history, but how it has affected their parents as well.

A FUNGUS, SIMILAR TO THAT WHICH CAUSED THE POTATO BLIGHT IN IRELAND ALMOST 150 YEARS AGO IS THREATENING THIS COUNTRY'S POTATO INDUSTRY. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MURRY MAHANY, A FARMER IN ARKPORT, NEW YORK, WHERE POTATO FARMING IS A 50-MILLION-DOLLAR-A-YEAR INDUSTRY.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that 25 years ago, cigarette advertising on television was banned. He looks back at the ban and the impact it had on the nation's smoking habit.

SCOTT SIMON AND JOURNALIST MARVIN KALB, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

When storyteller Carmen Deedee left Cuba as a little girl many years ago, she had a difficult time adjusting to her new life in a small town in Georgia. But her transition was made easier when she discovered that some of the things she treasured in her country she could also find in her new one.

WE WILL AIR AN EXCERPTED VERSION OF A SPEECH THE LATE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ITZHAK RABIN MADE SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER HE SHOOK THE HAND OF PLO LEADER YASSER ARAFAT ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

Daniel and NPR's Tom Gjelten discuss the latest in the Bosnian peace negotiations taking place outside Dayton, Ohio. Tom takes us inside the talks, and gives us a feeling for the mood as arch enemies are essentially living in close proximity in an effort to find peace. Personal relations are icy, but the sides are working 7 days a week.

35 years ago - the then 6 year old Ruby Bridges went to her first day of public school - only to be met by a mob of whites who didn't want a little black girl coming to their school. But, despite rigorous protests, Louisiana schools were under court order to integrate and so Ruby Bridges, escorted by federal marshalls, continued first grade at the Frantz School in New Orleans all by herself. The only other person Ruby saw througout most of her first year was her teacher - Barbara Henry. Daniel talks with Ruby Bridges-Hall and Barbara Henry about their recollections of those historic, precedent setting times.