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  [The 90’s Election Specials raw: Paul Tsongas at Harper High School, part 1]

  1992 Election, Chicago, Politics, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's

  Raw footage for The 90’s election specials. Senator Paul Tsongas, running in the Democratic presidential primary, visits Harper High School, a predominately African-American school on the South Side of Chicago.

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  Once A Star #1

  Chicago, Sports, Viewers Choice

  The first of two hour-long programs profiling former professional athletes. The show focuses on these athletes’ lives after retiring from sports, with archival footage sprinkled throughout. We get an in-depth look at these personalities, while also indirectly getting a sense of the difference between professional sports of the 50s, 60s, and 70s versus today: virtually all of the athletes work for a living. This program features “no-hit” Chicago Cub pitcher Kenny Holtzman; Cy Young Award winner Steve Stone;  first African American in the NBA, Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton; TV wrestling pioneer “Dick the Bruiser” (Afflis); all-time NFL scoring leader, kicker and quarterback George Blanda; bowling champ Carmen Salvino; Casey Stengel speaking “Stengelese;”  Clown Prince of Baseball, Max Patkin; and one-season phenomenon, pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych.

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  The 90’s election special: the Primary

  1992 Election, Politics, THE 90's, Tom Weinberg

  The first of three election specials from the award winning series, The 90’s. This episode focuses on “The Primary” and features moments from the Illinois presidential and senatorial primaries, featuring Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown, Paul Tsongas, and Carol Moseley Braun. The producers tend to stay away from the regular news type footage and find the human interactions and the moments when the politicians are off their guard.

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  [The 90’s Election Specials raw: WLS-TV Chicago senate race]

  1992 Election, Black, Chicago, Communities, Politics

  This tape features a Channel 7 WLS-TV eyewitness news report on the Chicago senate race debate in 1992.

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  A Look At The Cubs, 1975

  Cubs

  A TV show, including commercials, previewing the 1975 Chicago Cubs, and examining their chances of a winning season. Made up of interviews with players from the 1975 Cubs conducted at the Cubs’ spring training camp in Scottsdale, AZ, and highlight footage from training camp and previous seasons.

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  Image Union, episode 1222

  Andrew Jones, Global Perspectives on War and Peace, Global Village, Image Union

  Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. In December 1989, videomaker Andrew Jones was in Panama, working on a documentary about President Manuel Noriega. On the eve of the interview, the U.S. invaded Panama amid rising tensions between the two countries. The United States had been claiming the Noriega was a drug trafficker and dangerous to America. Jones spends time with the everyday Panamanians as well as Panamanian government officials, and as a result, becomes increasingly suspicious of the portrayal of the invasion by the U.S. government and media. The documentary includes powerful on the ground footage during the U.S. attack.

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  [Nuclear power plants]

  Uncategorized

  A documentary covering how nuclear power plants work, their safety issues, and public opinions on them. Don Johnson and Mike Gray speak with several industry employees as well as critics.

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  [The 90’s Election Specials raw: CNN news footage of Bush and Buchanan]

  Politics, THE 90's

  Footage for The 90’s election specials. President H.W. Bush footage (including the vomiting incident in Japan) and footage of Pat Buchanan. From CNN.