StoryCorps

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StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.

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584 Pieces

Every day at StoryCorps booths across the country, ordinary people share extraordinary stories with friends and loved ones.


Pieces

Caption: Dr. William Lynn Weaver
In 1964, Dr. William Lynn Weaver was one of 14 black teens who integrated West High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. At StoryCorps, he spoke about h...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:41
Caption: David Apkarian (left) and Russell Lehmann (right)
Air travel can be a stressful experience for just about anyone. But for 26-year-old Russell Lehmann, a flight delay or cancellation isn’t just a sm...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:37
Caption: Kyle Cook (left) and Carla Saunders (right)
Kyle Cook and Carla Saunders are neonatal nurse practitioners at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville. They’ve spent decades caring for...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 2
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On September 11, 2001, Salman Hamdani was a 23-year-old emergency medical technician, NYPD cadet, and aspiring medical student who rushed to the Wo...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:09
Caption: Max Hanagarne (left) and Josh Hanagarne (right)
StoryCorps gives people the chance to talk to each other about the events that have helped shape who they are. Josh Hanagarne did just that with hi...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:51
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You may recall the voice of Dr. William “Lynn” Weaver from a StoryCorps interview he did back in 2007, where he talked about his father, Ted Weaver...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:04
Caption: Francine Anderson
Francine Anderson grew up in rural Virginia during the 1950s. It was the Jim Crow South and “Whites Only” signs punctuated the windows of many busi...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sylvia Bullock and Marcus Bullock
In the mid-1990s, Reverend Sylvia Bullock was raising two kids on her own near Washington, D.C. while working and going to college full-time. Her ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wally and Mary, circa 1993. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Mary Holsenbeck.
When Wally Funk was 8 years old, she jumped off the roof of her barn while wearing a Superman cape, hoping to fly. That desire never left her, and ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 02:32
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Father Noel Hickie was working as a hospital chaplain when he met Marcia Hilton, a bereavement counselor, at a hospital in Eugene, Oregon. For 25 y...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Aug 01, 2017
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1