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Auto Focus is a new movie about Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane and the obsession -- with sex and sexual photography -- that ended two of his marriages and his career. Host Scott Simon speaks with the actor's son, Bob Crane Jr., who served as a consultant on the film.

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) joins the race to become House minority leader, emphasizing campaign finance reform. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appears to be the frontrunner in a competition that also includes Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN). NPR's David Welna reports.

On this observance of the birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., we hear an excerpt of a letter written by King while he was imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. He is responding to a letter written by several white clergymen who criticized King's acts of civil disobedience and suggested his civil rights agenda could best be achieved in the courts. The exceprt is read by actor Wilson Cain III.

His book The Ice Beneath You is based on his experiences as a young army private in Somalia in 1993, and his difficult return to civilian life. Hubert Selby Jr., the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, said of Bauman's novel, "Beautifully crafted, structured, and simple... It is a pleasure to read the work of a real writer." Bauman is also a folksinger and songwriter with a CD, Roaddogs, Assasins & The Queen Of Ohio.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports from Birmingham, Alabama, where jury selection begins today in the trial of one of the last surviving suspects in the bombing of a black church in 1963. Thomas Blanton Jr., a former Ku Klux Klan member, is accused of helping to plant the bomb that killed four girls and injured more than 20 others.

Noah Adams talks with Ralph Gardner Jr., who is covering the Puffy Combs trial for the New York Observer about closing arguments in the Puffy Combs trial. Yesterday, the defense made their closing arguments, and today was the prosecution's turn. Gardner says today prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos started his summation of the state's case by playing recordings of emergency telephone calls after 3 people were wounded by gunfire on Dec. 27, 1999.

The unsolved Zodiac murder cases of the late sixties and seventies became the inspiration for the modern serial-killer movie genre. There's a new thriller out about the crimes: Zodiac. Director David Fincher's film stars Jake Gyllenhall, Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo.

In the '50s, Richard Adler collaborated with his partner, Jerry Ross, on the Broadway musicals Damn Yankees and The Pajama Game. Currently, there is a new Broadway staging of The Pajama Game, starring Harry Connick Jr., and Michael McKean. This interview originally aired on August 9, 1990.

As the nation marks the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., this week, fresh attention is paid to the current state of the civil rights movement, and its leaders. Hear Andrew Hacker, author of the 1992 book Two Nations; Claybourne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Papers Project at Stanford University; and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Charles Bryan, Jr., of the Virginia Historical Society, about a new book he's co-edited about the Civil War. Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey is written and illustrated by Union Private Robert K. Sneden. Scholars are calling Sneden's memoir one of the most significant Civil War documents published since the 19th century.