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Nina Simone on Shock
Season 1
Episode 53
"I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed." - Nina Simone in July, 1968. Lilian Terry had a national radio show in Italy--everyone from Ray Charles to Duke Ellington appeared on her show--and there was one person she always wanted to interview: Nina Simone.
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"I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die." - Patty Hearst in 1982