Now I've Heard Everything Bill Thompson

The political turbulence of the 1960s has been well documented. and one name that appears prominently in that story is Tom Hayden.One of the founders of the Students For a Democratic Society, Hayden was also a Freedom Rider in the south, fighting for civil rights, but also became one of the leading young voices against the Vietnam War.
In the historically tumultuous 1968, Hayden was among several high profile demonstrators at the notorious Democratic National Convention in Chicago. They were eventually brought to trial and became known as The Chicago Seven.
In this 1988 interview, Hayden discusses his memoir Reunion.

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Rose Resnick was a talented and successful concert pianist. She also played at clubs, and performed on the radio in the 1930s. She was also a music teacher.
She was also blind. Resnick, who was born in 1906, lost her sight from glaucoma as a child.
Over the rest of her life Resnick became a powerful advocate for the blind. She established the California League of the Handicapped, as well as other organizations for the visually imp[aired.
In this 988.interbiew Resnick talks about her life and her book Dare to Dream.

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The modern zoo bears little resemblance to those you, or your parents, may remember. The cramped dirty cages that characterized the zoos of a prior era have now been replaced by more open settings that may mimic an animal's natural habitat.
One of the principal architects of that transformation was longtime Columbus Zoo director Jack Hanna. He took over an aging and decrepit facility and turned it into a showplace, attracting thousands of visitors.
In this 1989 interview Hanna discusses his autobiography Monkeys On The Interstate.

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Photo by Phil Konstantin
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Throughout the 1970s and 80s, the most prominent face of the Palestine Liberation Organization, or PLO, was its leader, Yasser Arafat. His was an image that many associated with terrorism and violence
In the early 1990s, the PLO put forth a new spokesperson, A well dressed and articulate woman in her 40s named Hanan Ashrawi. She became well known to American television viewers as a sharp contrast to the Arafat image.
In this1995 interview Ashrawi talks about her autobiography This Side of Peace.

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Photo by Carsten Sohn
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Hot air balloons, or lighter-than-air craft, have been around for centuries. But it wasn't until March 1999 that humans were able to circumnavigate the entire world in a single hot air balloon flight.
The two men who did it were British balloonist Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist. They co-piloted a massive balloon called Breitling Orbiter 3, which launched March 1,1999 from Switzerland and landed in Egypt 19 days and 27,900 miles laer.
In this interview recorded just a few months later, Piccard and Jones talk about their history-making adventure.

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No matter where you work, no matter what you do, no matter how long you've done it, there's a good chance you'll be fired someday. Especially in today's economy as employers don't seem to have any loyalty to employees anymore.
Sometimes the situation is so comical, the only way you can get through it is to laugh at it.
Actress and writer Annabelle Gurwitch has been fired. And she knows lots and lots of other people who have been fired. So she gathered their stories in a book called Fired!
In this 2006 interview Gurwitch talks about how she put the book togther.

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