Amy Goodman interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTp9qa7-5YE&NR=1
Riz Khan Oct 08 interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWGJepUwQ-U&NR=1
On both click on the next segment to see the full interviews. Blew off the afternoon listening. Fisk is quite something to listen to.
>From Fisk, I came across some interviews of Studs Terkel's on WWII:
http://www.studsterkel.org/gwar.php
What's striking about the interviews is their ambiguity and or hostility that flows through them, the idea that they were sold a bunch of bullshit. As the first woman interviewed said. Okay it had to be done, so why bullshit about it? Or in a later series with one and then two of the Tuskegee airmen, who were re-cycled through the combat training twice while the Army stalled, with the result when they finally did join a bomber group flying fighter support, they were better flyers. The official excuse was they took longer to learn. Hilariously nasty.
Then there was a interview with a Marine in the Pacific. Very grim stuff, mud and maggots. He said the only thing he ever read that came close was trenches of WWI. And another with a mortar crewman who was captured early in the Battle of the Bulge, went to a prison camp, then worked in a chemical factory, saw Dresden from ten miles away, got stranded between the US and Russian fronts, wondered around looting food off German farms...
Then there's Hard Times, the Depression. Try the Ed Paulsen series:
http://www.studsterkel.org/htimes.php
Then Yip Harburg playing the original Brother Can You Spare a Dime. Also a few up there is Ceasar Chavez.
Down below is John Beecher, who worked for FDR's Emergency Relief Administration (they built the migratory farmer worker camps). Great stuff. This guy matched up John Steinbeck with some migratory camp administrator, who had been a field worker and they worked the fields so Steinbeck had enough to write Grapes of Wrath. If you're at all interested in this stuff this is one to listen to.
If you're into photography try Shorpey's. Jump ahead a hundred or so images to start getting to the good stuff:
Most of Lewis Wickes Hine, child labor documentary photos, and lots of WPA and FSA photos.
Anyway, enjoy. Happy New Year.
CA