FBI tracked Studs Terkel for over four decades

Through the Freedom of Information Act, CUNY graduate student Valerie Lapinski was able to obtain previously unreleased FBI file of Studs Terkel.  The file revealed that the agency suspected Terkel was a Communist.  "The 269-page paper trail spans 1945 to 1990 – covering everything from Terkel’s McCarthy-era blacklisting to his involvement with Paul Robeson and third-party presidential candidate Henry Wallace to a birthday party toast he once made."  The agency never confirmed its suspicion, and stopped compiling information on him in 1990.  Terkel died October 31, 2008.