StoryCorps

Series produced by StoryCorps

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

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


581 Pieces

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Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Special education teacher Ken Rensink tells his friend Laurel Hill-Ward how surviving a near-fatal car crash influenced his teaching.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Charlie Morris remembers his brother's death in 1939, with his cousin Sylvester Lewis.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 2
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Twenty-three-year-old Tierra Jackson talks to John Horan, the president of her high school, about what her life was like when they first met.

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 3
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Biologists Susan and Philip McClinton talk about the unlikely beginning of their romance

Bought by WEZU, WTJU, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
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Shelli Wright and her son, Graham Haggett, remember his grandmother Sandra Lee Wright, who was killed on September 11, 2001. Shelli Wright and her ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 3
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Mark Edens tells his daughter, Jessie, about his career with the Michigan State Police.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 2
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Daniel Ross talks about being a volunteer firefighter while serving time in a minimum security prison.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 4
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Surinder Singh (L) and his son Rupinder (R) talk about their lives as Sikhs in the U.S. and Canada.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 2
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Frank Barela and Frank Maestas talk to their grandson C.J. Maestas about his gymnastics career.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Edith Green tells her granddaughter, Chaya, about being a survivor of gun violence.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Jake Bainter talks to "Boston" Bill Hansbury about their chance meeting on the day Jake got his leg amputated.

Bought by WEZU, The Story, and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Freddie Wood and his wife Wilma Sue talk about the Wood and Swink General Store and Post Office, which has been in Freddie's family for more than a...

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 2
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Army National Guard Capt. Zachariah Fike speaks with Adeline Rockko about returning her brother's lost Purple Heart medal.

Bought by WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 4
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Bishop Ricardo Ramirez remembers his grandmother Francisca "Panchita" Espitia.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 1
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U.S. Navy veteran Denny Meyer remembers what it was like to be gay and a sailor in the late 1960s.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WDBM, WEZU, KMUD, KISU and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 8
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Wil Smith tells his daughter, Olivia, about being a single dad in college.

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
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José Rodriguez tells his former coach Charles Zelinsky how he got involved in the Special Olympics.

Bought by WEZU and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 2
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Robert Holmes talks about his family being among the first to integrate a neighborhood in Edison, New Jersey.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Tyrese Graham remembers his first day as a teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago, IL.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 2