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Government

  • Charito Planas

    Charito Planas discusses his testimony before the U.S. Congress

    Aug. 21, 1981
  • Tom Wicker

    Tom Wicker discusses his book "A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt"

    Mar. 21, 1975
  • Studs Terkel

    Terkel comments and presents "Hard Times: an oral history of the great depression" ; Program 5 ; part 1

    1971
  • Interviewing Texas populist Jim Hightower

    1980
  • Donald Sassoon discusses his book “One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century”

    May. 2, 1997
  • Discussing the law and police, especially the selection of Chicago's new police chief

    Apr. 13, 1978
  • Dr. Jacob Bronowski

    Dr. Jacob Bronowski discusses the philosophy of science in the post World War II world

    Jan. 1, 1971
  • Interviewing Nicholas von Hoffman

    Oct. 10, 1978
  •  Susan Catania, Clara Day, and Margaret Klimkowski

    Illinois state representative Susan Catania, Clara Day and Marguerite Klimkowski discuss the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

    Nov. 1, 1978
  • Alger Hiss talks with Studs Terkel

    Feb. 17, 1973
  • Andrea Rozran, Alex Polikoff, and Dick Simpson

    Andrea Rozran, Alex Polikoff, and Dick Simpson discuss "Chicago: An Agenda for Change" ; part 5

    Oct. 14, 1974
  • Garry Wills discusses his book "The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power"

    Mar. 16, 1982
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