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  • Madeleine L'Engle and Elizabeth M. Riley discuss children's books

    Jul. 17, 1963

    Newberry Award winner Madeleine L'Engle did not set out to write good literature when she wrote "A Wrinkle in Time". Children's book publisher Elizabeth M. Riley also said of L'Engle's book, it's a good story for both children and adults. L'Engle shared her experience that when she writes, often times, she'll read what she's written to her children & if they say, "get back to the typewriter and write more," she knows she's onto something good.

  • Judy Hough, Lily (Rose Rigsby) Lowell and Jimmy White

    Judy Hough, Lily (Rose Rigsby) Lowell and Jimmy White talk with Studs Terkel Part 1

    1968

    Discussion of Division Street: America

  • Interviewing King Solomon

  • Interviewing former Israeli army colonel and human rights activist Dov Yermiya

    May. 6, 1985
  • Interviewing former CIA agent David MacMichael

    Mar. 24, 1995

    MacMichael testified in front of the World Court at the Hague in 1985 about the United States government's activities with anti-Sandinista contra forces in Nicaragua and President Reagan's knowledge of such events.

  • Interviewing Chicagoan Kid Pharaoh : part 1

    An interview with Kid Pharoh, a former prize fighter, is included in Terkel's book, "Division Street: America."

  • Interviewing Chicagoan Kid Pharaoh ; part 2

    An interview with Kid Pharoh, a former prize fighter, is included in Terkel's book, "Division Street: America."

  • Interviewing Bob "Doc" Graham ; part 2

    Discussing life in Chicago and its underworld in the 1930s, longer interview that was the basis of his Hard Times book appearance.

  • Interviewing Anthony Guarisco of the Alliance of Atomic Veterans and anti-nuke physicist Leo Seren

    Dec. 2, 1992

    The International Alliance of Atomic Veterans is a veterans' group committed to the abolishing of all nuclear weapons.

  • Interviewing Bob "Doc" Graham ; part 1

    Discussing life in Chicago and its underworld in the 1930s, longer interview that was the basis of his Hard Times book appearance.

  • Interview with Vernon Lyon, Amy Hill, and Colin Seals

    Apr. 27, 1989

    Discussing CIA campus recruitment with Amy Hill, Colin Seals, and former CIA undercover operative Verne Lyon.

  • Interview with Steve Hawkins

    Jan. 2, 1973

    An Air Force veteran discusses his journey to becoming a conscientious objector and member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.  Studs plays a clip from the John Prine song Take The Star out of the Window.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Interview with Dr. Charles Clements and Asa Baber

    May. 20, 1986

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

  • Hollie Brock and Jim Potter

    Hollie Brock and Jim Potter both paraplegics, discuss what it is to "be" a paraplegic

    1968

    Mr. Brock, a recreational therapist, and Mr. Hollie, a nurse, discuss paraplegia. Each of the gentlemen discuss the individual accidents that caused their injuries, their recovery and how they got through it. They talk to Studs about the things they enjoy doing and goals they are trying to reach.

  • Hans W. Mattick and Father Robert Taylor discuss the scandal at Cook County Jail

    1968

    Content Warning: This conversation includes racially and/or culturally derogatory language and/or negative depictions of Black and Indigenous people of color, women, and LGBTQI+ individuals. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion. Former Assistant Warden of the Cook County Jail, Hans W.

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