StoryCorps
- Location: Brooklyn, New York
- http://www.storycorps.org
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.
Series
584 Pieces
Every day at StoryCorps booths across the country, ordinary people share extraordinary stories with friends and loved ones.
- From: StoryCorps
- Updated: Oct 26, 2012
Pieces
The mother of the gunman who entered an Amish schoolhouse and killed five girls discusses the events of the day and the bonds that came from it.
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 02:26
Two big rig truckers with more than 9 million miles in the driver’s seat between them discuss friendship, adventures, and why they’ll never retire.
Bought by PRX Remix, WMUU-LP, WGUC/ WVXU, and WOUB
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 02:07
- Purchases: 4
As an adult, Eileen was diagnosed with a learning disability. At StoryCorps, she remembers how she overcame the challenges she faced at work.
Bought by WGUC/ WVXU
- Added: Sep 19, 2016
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
A former airline employee discusses the aftereffects of knowing he checked two 9/11 hijackers onto the plane that was flown into the Pentagon.
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
Talat Hamdani remembers her son, a NYPD cadet who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was wrongfully accused of having terrorist links.
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 02:13
Jenna Henderson came to StoryCorps to remember her husband, Army Sgt. First Class Chris Henderson, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2007.
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
William’s mother is a chaplain providing spiritual support to seniors and hospice patients. At StoryCorps they discuss how her work affects them both.
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 03:23
Pastor Danny Cortez and his son, Drew, recall the sermon Danny gave to his church congregation after Drew told his father that he was gay.
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 2
A father and son talk about working together in an air conditioner repair business that has been in their family for more than half a century.
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 2
John Washington, 95, who is blind and deaf, recently recorded a StoryCorps interview with his eldest child, Melva, using a TeleBraille machine.
- Added: Aug 22, 2016
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 3