1912-2008
The Life and Work of Studs Terkel
The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago.
Studs Terkel worked as an activist, a civil servant, a labor organizer, an ad writer, a television actor, and a radio DJ, among many other occupations. But since the 1960s, he was particularly well-known as a world-class interviewer, a writer and radio personality who drew celebrities and, far more often, average citizens into sharing their oral histories. Read more...
