[Interviews with people in Skokie, IL about their heroes, March 2, 1994]

People around Chicago reveal who their heroes were and are, in both childhood and adulthood!

0:04Copy video clip URL The program begins. 

0:15Copy video clip URL Interviewer Joe Cummings talks to camera operator Bill Stamets.

0:59Copy video clip URL A man on the street is interviewed as part of a television series called “Heroes”. 

1:02Copy video clip URL The man being interviewed introduces himself as Clinton Franklin. He states that his childhood heroes were MLK and Malcom X, because he could “relate to them”. 

2:02Copy video clip URL Franklin states that he “can’t see an athlete” as his hero. 

2:36Copy video clip URL An elderly woman is asked who her hero was and/or is, to which she waves in a sign of declination to be interviewed. 

2:37Copy video clip URL The seal of the Village of Skokie, Illinois is shown. 

3:05Copy video clip URL A taxi driver is approached, and asked if he will consent to be interviewed. He introduces himself as Lester. He grew up in Poland – which was then part of the Warsaw Pact. He says that his childhood hero was his father. 

7:04Copy video clip URL A young man in a maroon and white letterman jacket, and a matching hat is approached and asked if he will consent to be interviewed. The young man introduces himself as Danny Fernandez. 

7:23Copy video clip URL Fernandez says that his heroes are his father and his grandfather, and says that his father is a house painter who came from Spain, and that he’s always looked up to his grandfather, who is a World War II Veteran. 

12:21Copy video clip URL A young woman in a green jacket is approached and asked if she will consent to be interviewed. The young woman introduces herself as Julie, and she says that her childhood hero was the DC Comics Superhero, Wonder Woman. 

13:02Copy video clip URL A man in a blue denim jacket and a red shirt is approached and asked if he will consent to be interviewed. The man introduces himself as John McLaughlin. He says that his childhood heroes were the DC Superheroes Superman and Batman. 

17:35Copy video clip URL A woman in a yellow, blue, and white tracksuit is approached and asked if she will consent to be interviewed. She introduces herself as Yvette Rodriguez. Her hero is Jesus Christ. 

21:22Copy video clip URL An older woman in a dark sweater and a white polo shirt is approached and asked if she will consent to be interviewed. Her name is Marlene Kaplan.

21:53Copy video clip URL Kaplan can be seen standing in front of a place called the “Hadassah House Thrift Shop”. She says that her childhood hero was her “Bubby”, or grandmother. 

25:37Copy video clip URL A man in a tan jacket with glasses is approached and asked if he will consent to be interviewed. His name is Mike Fraus,  and his childhood hero was a sports star named Roberto. 

34:40Copy video clip URL The program ends.