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  [The 90s Election Specials raw: Alexander Cockburn]

  1992 Election, Politics

  Raw footage for The 90’s Election Specials. Journalist Alexander Cockburn talks about the ’92 primaries, the primary process, the candidates, the economy, the JFK myth and Oliver Stone’s movie.

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  [The 90’s raw: Stanley Tigerman]

  Chicago, THE 90's

  Raw tape for the award-winning series The 90’s. Interview with Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman, widely considered a maverick and an outsider in the architectural community, plus some footage of Chicago architecture.

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  [Helen Stern at Mary Meyer School #1]

  Chicago

  Camera original footage of Helen Stern, one of the founding teachers of the Mary Meyer School in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood.

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  Bongo

  Black, Communities, Outside Agitators

  This tape appears to be raw or crudely edited footage (perhaps a very rough cut) from a documentary about the 1992 riots in Los Angeles sparked by the acquittal of the police officers who beat Rodney King. The first 15 minutes are taken up by an interview with Bongo, an African-American artist and business owner in South Central Los Angeles. Bongo’s comments, which are often very passionate and animated, center on the racist mistreatment of African-Americans, particularly African-Americans i n Los Angeles. The remainder of the tape is raw footage shot in Los Angeles following the riots. Most of the shots are of National Guardsmen patrolling the streets on foot and in armored vehicles. These images make Los Angeles look eerily similar to occupied Baghdad.

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  Robyn Smith #1

  Once A Star, Sports

  An interview with Robyn Smith, the famed jockey. As the one of the first females to race horses professionally, she touches on her jockeying career and the struggles she had encountered throughout it. Smith also discusses her passion for riding, the debate over whether it is the jockey or the horse that wins the race, and the politics and biases of the horse racing world.

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  Finley #3

  Once A Star

  This tape is comprised partly of b-roll and partly of an interview with venerable Oakland A’s owner Charlie Finley. In the first half, Finley gives a tour of his “press box”, which is situated at the very top of his barn-turned-house in LaPorte, Indiana. The second half is an interview with Finley where he gives a bit of background on his adolescence and discusses his ascendance career-wise from steel mill worker to the owner of a championship baseball team.

• [CNN interview with Studs Terkel raw]

  Studs Terkel

  Raw footage of Studs Terkel being interviewed by Bernard Shaw in Chicago. This interview covers all of Terkel ‘s famous habits – his red shirt and shoes, the fact that he can’t drive, his wife’s death, his rejection of computers, his ineptness with a tape recorder, etc. About his early law eduation: “I was a romantic, you know. I dreamed of Charles Darrow and I woke up to Julius Hoffman.” Terkel talks about his love of the CTA bus, which enables him to read and talk to people. He describes his process of collecting material for his books. ” I call myself a gold prospector… [after I interview someone] there’s transcripts, maybe 100 pages. That’s ore. There’s some gold in it. The prospector sifts. I may find eight pages. That is the gold.” After living for 90 years, Terkel is still vital – “I want my epitaph to be” ‘Curiosity did not kill this cat!’ About his new book “Will The Circle Be Unbroken?,” Terkel describes the potentially morbid subject (death) as the ultimate intellectual question. “You can’t discuss life unless you discuss the fact that it’s finite.” “I have a faith, but it’s a here and a now. I do envy those who have a faith, because if they believe that it gives them solace.” About his love of Chicago: “Chicago turned me on the first day I came here. I had asthma all my life in New York, but when that wind blew down from the stock yards, my asthma was cured!” He also links the feminist movement and the gay rights movement to the civil rights movement, then describes his reasons for voting for Ralph Nader over Al Gore: he hopes for the formation of a “second party” (considering the Republicans and Democrats to be essentially the same party). He describes racism as a problem caused by those in power to pit the underclasses against each other. He also praises his famous journalist friends. “Mike Royko was like no journalist ever… First of all, he had a style – every word, every phrase had to be right…” He ends the interview by talking about his experiences being persecuted during the McCarthy era. “To this day people think I was heroic, but it wasn’t that – I was scared stiff – but my ego was at stake!”

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  My American Century

  NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Journalist Bill Kovach interviews Studs Terkel at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Education Forum. Professor and sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot gives an introduction.