Question: Were Studs Terkel and Billie Letts of the same nationality?

Context articles: Larry Long (singer-songwriter)
Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Nice Bombs
Studs Terkel
Billie Letts
Sacco and Vanzetti (2006 film)
Hugh Fullerton
Jackie Rivet-River
Harvard Works Because We Do
Stanley Hallett

Larry Long (born 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American singer-songwriter who has made his life work the celebration of everyday heroes.
 Author, historian, actor, and broadcaster Studs Terkel called Larry “a true American Troubadour.”
 His non-profit organization "Community Celebration of Place" encourages community building through music and intergenerational story-telling.
 He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Studs Terkel Radio Archive is an archive of over 1,000 digitized audio tapes originally aired over 45 years on Studs Terkel's radio show on WFMT-FM or used in his oral history collections in the books "Division Street America" (1967) and "Working" (1974).
 Terkel donated a total of 5,600 tapes to the Chicago History Museum, which contracted the WFMT Radio network (formerly part of WFMT-FM), to publish the recordings online.
 The bulk of the tapes are not yet digitized, but the archive plans to digitize and distribute as many as possible online.
 The American public radio network NPR is featuring many of the tapes during the week of September 25 - October 2, 2016.
 The Chicago History Museum is also working with the Library of Congress to make the tapes available online and to visitors to their buildings in Washington, DC.
Nice Bombs is a 2006 documentary film directed by Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi about his return to his home country to visit his family after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
 The film is co-produced by Alshaibi's wife Kristie Alshaibi and co-executive produced by Studs Terkel.
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster.
 He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for ""The Good War"", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
Billie Dean Letts (née Gipson; May 30, 1938 – August 2, 2014) was an American novelist and educator.
 She was a professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
Sacco and Vanzetti is a 2006 documentary film directed by Peter Miller.
 Produced by Peter Miller and Editor Amy Linton, the film presents interviews with researchers and historians of the lives of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and their trial.
 It also presents forensic evidence that refutes that used by the prosecution during the trial.
 Prison letters written by the defendants are read by voice actors with Tony Shalhoub as Sacco and John Turturro as Vanzetti.
 Interviewees include Howard Zinn, Studs Terkel and Arlo Guthrie.
Hugh Stuart Fullerton III (10 September 1873 – 27 December 1945) was an American sportswriter of the first half of the 20th century.
 He was one of the founders of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
 He is best remembered for his role in uncovering the 1919 "Black Sox" Scandal.
 Studs Terkel played Fullerton in the film "Eight Men Out".
Jackie Rivet-River is an American TV writer, director, producer, and founder of Peace Productions, a non-profit organization.
 She has created more than 15 television programs including documentaries such as Too Flawed to Fix: Inside the Illinois Capital Punishment System, In a Time of Siege; a film about the antiwar activities of activist Kathy Kelly and narrated by Studs Terkel, War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Children They Leave Behind and Who is Thy Neighbor?
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 She began her film career in Chicago at the Fred A. Niles Communications Center (now Harpo Productions) and was the first female in the Midwest Chapter of the Directors Guild of America.
Harvard Works Because We Do is a book of photographs by Gregory Halpern.
 The book was published in 2003 by Quantuck Lane / W. W. Norton, with an introduction by Studs Terkel.
 The photographs, compiled by Halpern while an undergraduate at Harvard University, document the lives of Harvard workers.
Stanley James Hallett (October 6, 1930 – November 24, 1998) was an American urban planner and specialist in urban community development who helped seed numerous innovative initiatives and organizations throughout his career.
 With the bulk of his professional work taking place in Chicago, Hallett began by working in church civil rights and later turned increasingly toward community economic and environmental sustainability.
 He and colleagues together created Chicago's Center for Neighborhood Technology, South Shore Bank (later ShoreBank), Northwestern University's Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research and other institutions.
 During his career he worked alongside numerous activists, journalists and religious leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Saul Alinsky, George McGovern and Studs Terkel.