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  • Charito Planas

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

    Aug. 21, 1981

    Discussing with Charito Planas his testimony before the U.S. Congress: "On the Withdrawal of U.S. Bases from the Philippines."

  • Candace Wayne

    Candace Wayne talks about domestic violence

    Jan. 12, 1979

    Candace Wayne talks about domestic violence and the legal process in the field and her role as an attorney-at-law at the Battered Women's Center in Chicago.

  • Bill Cunningham discusses court cases he has participated in

    Jan. 5, 1979

    Bill Cunningham, Jesuit priest and lawyer, discusses some court cases he has participated in. He talks about the Berrigan Brothers who protested against the Vietnam War. Cunnginham also talks about the Rice-Poindexter case, where two Black Panther Party members were charged for murder. He also discussed the Freedom of Information Act and the COINTELPRO the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program. Studs reads poetry from David Rice and plays a song by Hank Ferguson.

  • Bill Adelman, Paul Avrich, Carolyn Ashbaugh, and Bill Neebe discuss the Haymarket Square Riot

    May. 2, 1986

    Commemorating the centennial of the Haymarket Square Riot, or Haymarket Affair, are authors and historians Bill Adelman, Paul Avrich, Carolyn Ashbaugh, and the grandson of Haymarket defendant Oscar Neebe, Bill Neebe. The interveiwees create a timeline of the events leading up to the Haymarket Riot including the German immigrants living situations, unions and strikes, police brutality and corruption. The group also lays out the events from May 1st to May 5th and then the following corrupt trials.

  • Clarence Darrow

    Arthur Weinberg discuess his biography of Clarence Darrow

    Dec. 8, 1980

    Terkel interviews author Arthur Weinberg. His latest book is called: "Clarence Darrow: A Sentimental Rebel".

  • Abner J. Mikva

    Archibald Carey, Elmer Gertz, Hans W. Mattick, Abner J. Mikva, Donald Page Moore discuss Paul Crump and capital punishment

    Jul. 16, 1962

    Archibald Carey, Elmer Gertz, Hans W. Mattick, Abner J. Mikva, Donald Page Moore discuss the scheduled execution of Paul Crump and their opposition to capital punishment

  • Anne Sidon, Susan Fisher, and Sandra Nye discuss womens' changing roles in society and its connection with mental health

    Nov. 6, 1985

    Physician Anne Sidon, psychiatrist Susan Fisher, and attorney Sandra Nye discuss womens' changing roles in society and its connection with mental health problems and solutions. The group discusses domestic violence, and notes how the normalization of divorce affects the mental health of women and the parental roles between father and mother. Studs plays “She Sits on the Table” - Tom Paxton (1980).

  • Abram Chayes discusses the mining of the Nicaraguan Harbor by U.S. Naval forces

    May. 16, 1985

    Abram Chayes, Professor of International Law at Harvard University, discusses the United States’ foreign relations with Nicaragua and the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court.

  • A conversation with Samuel Pisar

    Aug. 1, 1980

    The Polish-American lawyer, author, and Holocaust survivor reflects on his time in concentration camps during World War II, as depicted in his memoir, Of Blood and Hope.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • A conversation with Hugo Black Jr.

    Dec. 19, 1975

    The son of Supreme Court associate justice Hugo Lafayette Black, also an attorney and author himself, discusses his book, My Father: A Remembrance.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • A conversation with Helene Schwartz Kenvin

    Jan. 23, 1976

    Helene Schwartz Kenvin joins Studs to discuss her autobiography, Lawyering. As she describes it, she did not initially want to be a lawyer, but was drawn to the profession after witnessing so much unfairness in a nation of laws.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

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