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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 2
A documentary about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre not only explains the full story of the shameful attack on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa tha...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:23
The Pacific Northwest was said to be terrorized by a serial killer in the early 20th century. Bodies were floating to the surface of the Chehalis a...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 32:13
In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his d...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 20:27
- Purchases: 1
"America's Ghost Storyteller", Diane Ladley, reveals actual, untouched recordings of mysterious paranormal activity experienced by guests of her ha...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Oct 08, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
This episode picks up where Episode 91 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
The early 20th century’s biggest murder trial, and a part...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 21:05
The story behind the face of New York’s Gilded Age, Evelyn Nesbit.
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 27:24
Professional criminal...
- Added: Jun 04, 2018
- Length: 02:25:04
Part 2 of an in-depth documentary series using the small town of Frome, UK as a microcosm for political, social, and economic successes and challen...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jan 29, 2018
- Length: 58:51
- Purchases: 1
An exploration of regional memories of the American Civil War and the ways we use story to hide or confront our complicated past.
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 20:40
Skidmore, Missouri is a very small town. In the ’70s, there was only one bar, one grocery store, and one bully. Ken McElroy was so ruthless and int...
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 27:10
Stories change. People change. Communities change.
The first episode of 12 Knots, The Drift, features three stories from the small island communit...
- Added: Apr 23, 2017
- Length: 43:06
He's been a womanizing petty criminal. A revolutionary marxist. An ex-con bank robber. A spiritual teacher. This week on ARRVLS, we go on a journey...
- Added: Oct 01, 2016
- Length: 26:10
Since 1965, there’s been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect managed to disappear and police were never able to find him. The ca...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 23:29
Jane Toppan was born in Massachusetts in 1857. She attended the Cambridge Nursing School, and established a successful private nursing career in Bo...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 25:01
- Purchases: 2
In this episode of TriPod, Laine Kaplan-Levenson brings us back to the days when Algiers was a stomping ground for bullfights and other forms of an...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 10:23
In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:18
- Added: Oct 01, 2015
- Length: 09:47
In February of 1896, a little boy discovered a woman’s headless body in a farmer’s field in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. No one knew who she was, or what...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 19:25
- Purchases: 1
On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in their history. A Civil War veteran and his young wi...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 17:25
- Purchases: 2
A series of tourist murders leads to a national conversation on cruel and unusual punishment for teenagers, two street artists become public enemy ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 50:59
- Purchases: 2
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
