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  • Discussing Vietnam with Claire Culhane ; part 2 ; Bob Gibson discusses music with Studs Terkel

  • Discussing Vietnam and interviewing Pham Tuyet Mai and her husband Dr. John Champlin

    Nov. 24, 1972

    *Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA) artist's exhibition, "Feds: Two Generations of Federally Employed Artists," showing at Truman College

    Mar. 5, 1986
  • Discussing the work of Josephine Baker with Ivory Moss

    Mar. 21, 1979

    Program includes excerpts of performances by Baker.

  • Discussing the Vietnam War memoir "A Rumor of War" with author Philip Caputo

    Jun. 21, 1977

    *Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing the United States Government's involvement in Central America with retired Marine Colonel and ex-CIA operative Philip Roettinger

    Jun. 26, 1986
  • Discussing the United State's foreign policy in Central America with former Ambassador to El Salvador Murat Williams

    Apr. 10, 1984
  • Discussing the Soviet military, with Andrew Cockburn

    Jun. 30, 1983

    The British journalist assesses the real military power behind the Iron Curtain in his book, The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine. He and Studs attempt to separate the myth from the reality of the late Cold War USSR.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing the Persian Gulf War with Rev. Howard Schomer

    Jan. 31, 1990

    A theologian and civil rights activist, Schomer refused ministerial exemption from the draft during World War II and, instead chose to register as a conscientious objector.

  • Discussing the opposition to nuclear power and the Clamshell Alliance with Sam Lovejoy

    Dec. 5, 1977

    Sam Lovejoy discusses the opposition to nuclear power, the Clamshell Alliance, politics, environmental concerns, and anti-nuclear sentiments and movements.

  • Discussing the Library of America series with Daniel Aaron

    Jun. 17, 1982
  • Discussing the history of the Knights of Labor with John Gerlach, Herb Gutman, and Dave Montgomery

    May. 18, 1979
  • Discussing The Hammonds of Redcliffe, with Carol Bleser

    Dec. 2, 1981

    After discovering the family letters of James Henry Hammond in the archives of a South Carolina library, Carol Bleser set about telling a rather troubling saga - of slavery, sexual assault, and hypocrisy in the South, before and after the Civil War.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing the Great Depression with Larry Van Dusen

  • Discussing the dangers of nuclear war and interviewing Frank Barnaby, author of several books on the subject

    Oct. 22, 1979

    *Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

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