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  [Howard Zinn raw #16: Noel Beasley, Jim Jenkins, and Charles King speak]

  Howard Zinn

  Howard Zinn attends an Awards Dinner for the Eugene V. Debs Foundation held at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #12: Zinn discusses his past and lectures on his views]

  Howard Zinn

  Howard Zinn speaks at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh on the history of the labor movement and workers’ struggles in the United States.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Ed Sadlowski Roast #1]

  Andrew Jones, Black, Chicago, Chicago Slices, Communities, NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Raw footage for Chicago Slices. This tape features part one of a roast for steelworkers union leader Ed Sadlowski. Friends, family, and co-workers gather at Local 65 Union Hall to celebrate Sadlowski’s retirement. Studs Terkel talks about the Chicago labor history, and the legacy of the union movement.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Ed Sadlowski Roast #2 – Parkview Pet Shop]

  Andrew Jones, Black, Chicago, Chicago Slices, Communities, NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Raw footage for Chicago Slices. The first half of the tape is a continuation of the roast for steelworkers union leader Ed Sadlowski. The second half of the tape features interviews with Julie Fischer and other staff at Parkview Pet Shop in Chicago’s Lincoln Park.

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  [Studs Terkel in two industrial films]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Two industrial films from the 1940s and ’50s that feature Studs Terkel. In “Beginning to Date” (1953) Terkel plays a high school diving instructor and offers advice to students on proper dating etiquette. The second film on this tape, “No Vacancies” (1946), is about the crisis that plagued many returning WWII soldiers who could not afford housing. Terkel is the narrator in this piece.

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  [Studs Terkel talks about Joe and Gaynell Begley]

  NHPRC, Studs Terkel, Tom Weinberg, Video Makers Choice

  A 1999 interview with Studs Terkel about Joe and Gaynell Begley’s C.B. Caudill country store in Blackey, Kentucky. The Begleys had been included in Terkel’s books Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression and American Dreams: Lost and Found.

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  [Studs Terkel with Bill Veeck at Billy Goat Tavern]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Sports, Studs Terkel, Tom Weinberg, Video Makers Choice

  Studs Terkel and Bill Veeck sit down for a beer at Billy Goat Tavern to talk about Solidarity Day and the condition of unions today.