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  [The 90’s Election Specials raw: Paul Tsongas in Rockford, IL]

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

  Raw footage for The 90’s election specials. Senator Paul Tsongas makes an appearance in Rockford, IL.

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  [The 90s Election Specials raw: John Rossen #2]

  1992 Election

  Raw footage continues from tape 10525 of a interview conducted for “The 90’s” with John Rossen, a Spanish Civil War veteran, former Communist Party member, and now editor of The New Patriot, a left-wing newspaper published in Chicago.

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  [The 90’s Election Specials raw: Andrew Wilson / Perot bio]

  Politics, THE 90's

  Raw footage for The 90’s election specials. This tape features a continuation of an interview with Andrew Wilson, who created a bio campaign spot for H. Ross Perot’s presidential campaign. It is followed by footage of the actual spot and of the videomakers’ frustration with their lack of access granted by the Perot campaign.

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  [The 90’s raw: M.M. Thomas]

  American Way, THE 90's

  Raw tape for the award-winning series The 90’s. M.M. Thomas describes his opinions on politics and America’s future in the ’90s. He describes his dissatisfaction with the policies of Reagan and Bush and what he thinks is wrong with the country. He gives his ultimate solution: “The only way to do all this is increase revenues, and you can read my lips, that means T-A-X-E-S.”

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  Five Day Bicycle Race

  Five Day Bicycle Race, Guerrilla TV, Outside Agitators, Politics, Roots of Video

  A documentary made at the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City, which was produced as a live 3-hour cablecast for five days during the convention. It was subsequently broadcast on WTTW and other PBS stations. It chronicles the events in and around the convention, and includes interviews with various delegates, politicians, members of the media, and people connected to Jimmy Carter, including Rosalynn Carter and Jeff Carter (Jimmy’s son). It also includes footage from the convention floor and demonstrators outside the convention, led by Ron Kovic.

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  [Rostenkowski raw #101]

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, Dan Rostenkowski, NHPRC, Politics, Roots of Video, Tom Weinberg

  Raw footage from the 1981 documentary “Rostenkowski”, a portrait of the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a powerful figure in Chicago (and national) politics. Cocktail reception for congressmen in Washington D.C. The audio is relatively poor so we don’t pick up much of the conversation.

• [Rock The Vote: 17 spots tied]

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  0:00 Bars and tone, black. 0:53 Ice T – Who’s afraid of the voters? Call your Senator and ask him to support the Motor Voter bill. 1:27 Queen Latifah – Your civil rights. Footage of civil rights protests, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, early Black voters at the polls, beatings, funerals. Clip from Martin Luther King Speech. Latifah tells us not to make all of these struggles a waste. Vote. 2:27 KRS-1 – Your cuture. People who don’t like your […]

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  [Jane Byrne spots]

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, Politics

  Ten 30-second mayoral campaign spots for the 1983 incumbent Jane Byrne.