Studs Terkel’s memories become first oral history of Chicago’s Memorial Day Massacre

Studs Terkel, the legendary Chicago radio host, raconteur and author of dozens of books, will probably now become best known to some because one of those books, Working, inspired the new Netflix series of that name from Higher Ground, the production company founded by Barack and Michelle Obama. But I met Studs back in the early 1980s after he wrote a blurb for my first book and then invited me on his radio show in Chicago. We then conversed over the following decades, before his passing in 2008. Still, I did not know of his intimate connection to one of the most shocking historical incidents i…

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