Studs Terkel: The Wiretap This Time - New York Times

I think I may have heard Terkel's show one time. I'm such a country
boy. I remember it being great.

> Terkel's article today in the NYT: http://tinyurl.com/2vvs85

It details his life history and his current lawsuit against illegal
wiretapping by the US Government.

Terkel was a winner of the Elijah P. Lovejoy Award:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_P._Lovejoy
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> Interesting reading all by itself. I have always wondered if the
> reputation of Alton Illinois as being a hideout for gangsters came
> from Lovejoy's assassination there. (this was common knowledge to
> my family when I was a child. Not sure why we even knew about it.)
>

Wikipedia entry on Studs Terkel:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_Terkel

Official Studs Terkel website:

> http://www.studsterkel.org/

He was born in 1912 and is still going strong