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Segment duration: 06:06
Producer: Alison Davis Wood
Chief Camera - Segment: Tim Hartin
This segment is filed in these categories: Family history • Politics • University of Illinois
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Host Alison Davis goes to a Charleston convention of Lincoln impersonators, professional presenters who appear as Abraham Lincoln or Mary Todd Lincoln at schools, club meetings and other gatherings. “These people are very sincere about trying to help keep the memory of Lincoln alive,” said Davis. “Many of them had been told from an early age that they looked like Lincoln.”
Segment duration: 07:41
Producer: Alison Davis Wood
This segment is filed in these categories: History • Hobbies • Illinois Culture/History • Politics
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Prairie Fire features a profile of 90-year-old Hazel Watson of Charleston, a longtime Republican Party activist. Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar grew up on her block, and she tells stories about him as a child, as well as about her long involvement in politics.
Segment duration: 06:30
Producer: Alison Davis
This segment is filed in these categories: History • Illinois Culture/History • Politics • Charleston
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Host Alison Davis talks with Judge Harlington Wood, Jr., of Petersburg. Although he refers to himself as a “country lawyer,” Wood’s career has taken him around the world. Now a circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Wood served under U.S. Attorney General Richard Kliendienst and was the chief negotiator at the Indian takeover of Wounded Knee in 1973.
Segment duration: 07:48
Producer: Alison Davis
This segment is filed in these categories: Illinois Culture/History • Politics • Petersburg
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Segment duration: 05:42
Producer: Jeff Cunningham
This segment is filed in these categories: Politics • Sullivan
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