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Government
  • Robert A. Caro in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Apr. 23, 1990
  • Susan Catania, June Sochen in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jan. 31, 1989
  • Jill K. Conway in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jun. 15, 1989
  • Walter Karp in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jun. 29, 1989
  • Dennis J. Kucinich in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jun. 9, 1995
  • Bernadette Devlin McAliskey in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Sep. 28, 1989
  • Robert McClory, Renault Robinson in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jul. 24, 1978
  • Maria Cerda and Dick Simpson discuss Chicago: An Agenda for Change, with a focus on education

    Oct. 8, 1974

    Chicago: An Agenda for Change. Part 3 of 5. Maria Cerda is a former Chicago Board of Education member.

  • Garry Wills discusses his book "The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power"

    Mar. 16, 1982

    Discussing the book, "The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power," and interviewing the author Garry Wills.

  • Edgar Smith

    Discussing the book, "Getting out", and interviewing its author, Edgar Smith

    Feb. 14, 1973

    Discussing the book, "Getting out," and interviewing its author, Edgar Smith. Topics include imprisonment, the legal system, and capital punishment. Includes a clip of an interview with Hermann Field a former Polish prisoner. Includes clip of an interview with former prison inmate Jimmy Blake.

  • Bobby Kennedy

    David Halberstam discusses Bobby Kennedy

    1969

    Discussing Bobby Kennedy and interviewing David Halberstam.

  • Senator Eugene McCarthy

    Senator Eugene McCarthy talks about his presidential campaign

    Mar. 3, 1975

    Former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy talks about his presidential campaign. Includes an excerpt of a 1968 program in which Studs and James Cameron visit Lincoln Park after the Chicago Democratic Convention riots.

  • David McCullough

    David McCullough discusses his book "Mornings on Horseback"

    Aug. 5, 1981

    Discussing the book "Mornings on Horseback" with author David McCullough.

  • Joe McGinniss

    Joe McGinniss talks about his book "The Selling of the President 1968"

    Joe McGinniss discusses his book "The Selling of the President 1968".

  • Robert Vaughn

    Robert Vaughn talks with Studs Terkel

    1970

    Robert Vaughn takes time out from his Drury Lane appearance in "Tender Trap" to discuss his new book "Only Victims" with Studs Terkel. The discussion spans the years 1938 when Martin Dies became the first House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC) chairman to Vice President Spiro Agnew's condemnation of the "New York Times" and "Washington Post". Vaughn created the title of his book "Only Victims" from a Dalton Trumbo speech that reflected back on the era of HUAC as being one where there were no heroes, no villains, only victims.

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