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Broadcaster, historian, raconteur Louis ("Studs") Terkel
died on October 31, 2008 at the age of 96.
He spoke to Christopher Purdy in 2005 while promoting
his book, "And They All Sang: Memoirs of an Eclectic Disc Jockey".
In this excerpt he talks of the city he loved for over seventy years, Chicago.
"I came to Chicago when I was eight years old, an asthmatic little boy, in 1920. The smell of the stockyards cured my asthma".
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Broadcaster, historian, raconteur Louis ("Studs") Terkel died on October 31, 2008 at the age of 96. He spoke to Christopher Purdy in 2005 while promoting his book, "And They All Sang: Memoirs of an Eclectic Disc Jockey". In this excerpt he talks of the city he loved for over seventy years, Chicago. "I came to Chicago when I was eight years old, an asthmatic little boy, in 1920. The smell of the stockyards cured my asthma".
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