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  • [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #22]

    [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #22]

    This tape features raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” In this video, Bill Veeck and his wife Mary Frances watch the Illinois high school state final basketball tournament in Champaign, Illinois.

  • [The 90’s raw: Anthony Hughes]

    [The 90’s raw: Anthony Hughes]

    Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Fred Bridges visits artist Anthony Hughes in the notorious housing project Cabrini Green. “Cabrini Green is my home. It’s always been my home. When most people think of Cabrini Green, they think of the drugs and the crime and every other negative thing you can think of. When I think of about it, I think about all the wonderful people who have meant so much to me in my life. …I’m an artist, and what I try to do is to share these people with the world, so that they’ll see that Cabrini Green is more than just the images you see in the media, but is real people. So through my art I try to share these real people with other real people.” He shows us his realistic charcoal drawings of Cabrini Green residents.

  • Time Out, episode 105

    Time Out, episode 105

    This tape features a 1984 episode of “Time Out,” a weekly sports program that is hosted by a number of Chicago area journalists and sportscasters. This week’s commentators are John Schulian of the Chicago Sun-Times, Kenny McReynolds, a WBMX Sportscaster and Assistant Coach for DePaul University’s Men’s Basketball team, WIND reporter Fran Spielman, and former NBA star John Mengelt. On this episode, the show’s crew members visit the Golden Glove Amateur Boxing Tournament Semi-Finals. Chicago Cubs and White Sox Scouts Vedie Himsl and Jerry Krause are interviewed. Bill Veeck also makes a brief appearance.

  • Second Century: Studs Terkel

    Second Century: Studs Terkel

    University of New Mexico program featuring an interview with Studs Terkel.

  • [Studs Terkel raw interview for Anthem]

    [Studs Terkel raw interview for Anthem]

    This is a full one camera unedited interview with Studs Terkel, who speaks about his life, politics, history, and America.

  • [Rocking the Boat raw: Bughouse Square #2]

    [Rocking the Boat raw: Bughouse Square #2]

    This is a continuation of footage from Bughouse Square in August of 1998. Studs Terkel speaks to the crowd about Bughouse Square, specifically its history and what it represents to the people of the city of Chicago.

  • [Friends of WFMT meeting]

    [Friends of WFMT meeting]

    “Friends of WFMT” meeting featuring Thomas Geoghegan, Leon Despres, and Studs Terkel, among others, including Susan Lipman of WFMT. Meeting focuses on informing supporters about the history of the station and impending changes to the structure of its management. Studs talks at around thirty-five minutes about the challenges facing the station’s long term survival.

  • [Two Joe Cummings interviews from 1969]

    [Two Joe Cummings interviews from 1969]

    Two reports by Joe Cummings for WBBM Newsradio 78 (AM 780) in 1969.  Audio only.

 
 
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