Terry Gross

Frank Robinson, Assistant General Manager of the Baltimore Orioles. In 1975, he became the first black manager in baseball, As a player, Robinson was legendary -- he is the only person to ever to win the Most Valuable Player award in both leagues. (Rebroadcast)

Called by some baseball purists the finest first baseman in the game, Hernandez played with the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Mets, and the Cleveland Indians. He is the winner of eleven consecutive Golden Glove Awards for fielding, and played in two World Championships. He is author of Pure Baseball, an analysis of two 1993 match-ups, with play by play commentary, based on his seventeen years in the game. (Rebroadcast)

The former Cardinal was a record-breaking baseball player in the 1960's, and was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1981. (Rebroadcast)

David Fisher is the author of the book Hard Evidence, which lays out how the FBI examines evidence to track down bombing suspects.

Patrick Mcguigan, editorial page editor of the Daily Oklahoman. He joins Fresh Air to talk about the Oklahoma City bombing and how he's been covering it in the news.

Robert Jay Lifton is an expert psychologist on mass social trauma and psychological after affects from anger, rage and vulnerability. He directs the center on violence and Human Survival at the City University of New York John Jay College.

Writer Scott Peck and his father Colonel Fred Peck. The younger Peck has written his first book, All American Boy, a memoir of his life growing up in an abusive home with his step-father and the rebuilding of his relationship with his father after a fourteen year estrangement. Peck was thrust on the national scene in May 1993 when his Marine Colonel father spoke against gays in the military to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Col. Peck went on to say his oldest son, Scott, was gay, and though he loved him, he should not be able to serve in the military.

Architecture and Design Critic Thomas Hine has written a new book, The Total Package: The Evolution and Secret Meanings of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Tubes. He explores the effect packages have on consumer emotions and purchases.

An interview with Frank Salomon, a member of the Phoenix Fire Department's Urban Search and Rescue Unit, which is one its way to Oklahoma City to help with the rescue efforts there.

Journalist Steven Waldman is National Correspondent for Newsweek. His new book "The Bill" follows Bill Clinton's plan to revamp the college loan system, from idea to implementation. Clinton first talked about his plan during the presidential campaign, and once he was in the White House, work began on what became AMERICORPS.