Show #124 of CNN & Time. Includes segments on Christopher Rocancourt, a con man who scammed the wealthy; the growing popularity of then presidential candidate Ralph Nader; renowned oral historian Studs Terkel’s new book Will the Circle Be Unbroken?; and Cheryl Mendelson, the author of a best selling housekeeping book.
Dovie Thurman, community organizer & the “heart” of Uptown speaks with Studs Terkel about her work as a civil rights and welfare rights activist in a North Side Chicago neighborhood. Produced just one month before Thurman died of heart failure on April 7, 1997, Thurman retells her struggle against racist and classist powers, her meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and how she found redemption as a Christian preacher.
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This video contains raw footage for the television show “Chicago Slices.” In this video, Ben Jarovsky interviews Stan Hollenbeck, publicist for Joz’s LaunderBar, a combination laundromat and bar.
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Raw tape. First few minutes consist of interview with two of the Neville Brothers, followed by b-roll at concert, then actual concert footage. The band is touring in support of their new album, “Fiyo on the Bayou.”
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Witness an exciting collection of news footage from 1979 – featuring coverage of the Rhodesian Bush War, the Soviet-Afghan War, political ads with the likes of Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown, and others, as well as segments featuring former NATO Supreme Allied Commanders Europe and US Army Generals, Dwight Eisenhower and Alexander Haig!
John Callaway interviews entrepreneur and chairman of Occidental Petroleum Armand Hammer in February of 1981. The interview goes in depth into Hammer’s childhood, his many business ventures, as well as controversial political policies of the time with the Soviet Union.
Tom Weinberg, John Callaway, and Skip Blumberg go to Orange, Massachusetts to interview Gene Tencza for “None of the Above”, a program featuring discussions with non-voters. This tape, however, is not the raw footage for the actual tape, it is Tom’s documentation of the trip.
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Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. An interview with an unidentified woman about the Freedom of Information Act, and videomaker Eddie Becker attempts to contact the Federal Reserve.