PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Sisters Kim Farrant and Joy Kahahawai-Welch remember their uncle, Joseph Kahahawai, who was murdered in Hawaii in 1932.
- Added: Jan 16, 2024
- Length: 02:51
Ron Amen speaks with his brother, Alan, about their bond, and how it persevered even after Ron was drafted in the Vietnam War.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 1
Professional criminal...
- Added: Jun 04, 2018
- Length: 02:25:04
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
Life’s precarious journey—lessons today’s parents often avoid.
Rediscover the frightening tales from our collective past.
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 11:46
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
More than eighty years ago, a North Carolina family of nine posed for a Christmas portrait. Two weeks later, all but one of them had been shot dead.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 25:28
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning author Daniel Woodrell, discusses his 2013 novel THE MAID'S VERSION. Told around a mysterious and tragic explosion at a 1920s dance c...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 2
Lucinda Marker and her husband, John Tull, talk about being diagnosed with bubonic plague in 2002.
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 3
One man's quest to uncover the hidden story behind the lobotomy he received as a 12-year-old child.
Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUT and more
- Added: Dec 02, 2005
- Length: 28:33
- Purchases: 15