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  • Abbie Hoffman

    Tribute to Abbie Hoffman who committed suicide in April 1989

    Apr. 19, 1989

    Tribute to Abbie Hoffman

  • Sister Dorothy Gartland in conversation with Studs Terkel

    May. 2, 1985

    Discussing the arrest and subsequent trial of peace demonstrators at the Great Lakes Naval Base near Waukegan, Illinois with Sister Dorothy Gartland.

  • Sidney Lens in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Feb. 15, 1983

    Discussing the book "The Maginot Line Syndrome: America's Hopeless Foreign Policy" (published by Ballinger) with the author, labor activists, and historian Sidney Lens.

  • Ron Kovic discusses his autobiography "Born on the Fourth of July"

    Jul. 29, 1977

    Studs interviews Vietnam veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic upon the paperback release of his autobiography "Born on the Fourth of July." Kovic recounts his All-American upbringing and unblinking faith in the country and its ideals before volunteering for the Marines and Vietnam.

  • Nicola Geiger talks to Studs Terkel

    Oct. 21, 1974
  • Interviewing peace activists; Mike Bremer, Robert DeYoung, Katey Feit, Kathy Kelly and Nadie Ohelson

    Dec. 5, 1994
  • Interviewing members of SANE/FREEZE; President William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Executive Director Monica Green and SANE's former Executive Director David Cortright.

    Aug. 9, 1991

    SANE/FREEZE works through national and grassroots citizens' action to promote nuclear disarmament.

  • Interviewing Lutheran minister and political activist Daniel Solberg and his brother, actor and political activist David Soul, about their work with union activists and unemployed steelworkers in western Pennsylvania

    Apr. 10, 1986
  • Interviewing former government official, Vietnam War opponent, and political activist Daniel Ellsberg

    Feb. 14, 1994

    Program includes an excerpt of a 1980 interview with Ellsberg.

  • Interviewing Arnold True, United States Navy Rear Admiral, about his anti-war political activity

    Jan. 20, 1977

    Program includes songs about the Vietnamese Conflict.

  • International Alliance of Atomic Veterans

    Interview with three members of the International Alliance of Atomic Veterans

    May. 17, 1984

    Interviewing an American, Australian and Scottish member of the International Alliance of Atomic Veterans. The International Alliance of Atomic Veterans is a veterans' group committed to the abolishing of all nuclear weapons.

  • Harry C. Boyte

    Interview with Harry C. Boyte

    Feb. 16, 1981

    Discussing the book "Backyard Revolution: Understanding the New Citizen Movement," (published by Temple University Press) with the author Harry C. Boyte.

  • Interview with Dr. Charles Clements and Asa Baber

    May. 20, 1986

    Interviewing Vietnam veterans and peace activists Dr. Charles Clements and Asa Baber.

  • Father Roy Bourgeois discusses why the School of the Americas must be closed down

    Mar. 24, 1994

    Father Roy Bourgeois travels the country, talking to groups of people who aren't aware that their tax dollars go to fund the School of the Americas. Bourgeois discovered that money provided was for military weapons & for the training of soldiers to torture and to kill people of Latin American countries.

  • Dr. Helen Caldicott discusses the ill-effects of a nuclear bomb going off

    Apr. 7, 1981

    The world spends 600 billon dollars on the arms race, which is rather puzzling to Dr. Helen Caldicott when 2/3 of the world's children are starving. Caldicott explained if a bomb went off in Chicago, there'd be a crater a half a mile wide and 300 feet deep. In addition, 90% of the people will be dead, some from being vaporized.

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