PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Oct 13, 2023
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Rabbi Philip Lazowski tells his wife Ruth about the stranger who saved him from the Nazis as a young boy, and how this fateful encounter would mark...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jan 25, 2022
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that somethi...
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 32:23
50 years after the infamous Battle of Hue, a Vietnam vet talks about living with memories you have no choice but to carry.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 18, 2018
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman living near Detroit. On a June night in 1982, he and a group of friends went out to celebrate his wedding,...
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 2
In this special StoryCorps production, Joel Tucker and his friend Gordon Blake share Joel’s experiences following an anti-LGBTQ incident from 2000.
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Segment 1: Deanie Bishop Parish/WASPs Segment 2: Melvin Morris/ Medal of Honor Segment 3: Tanya Biank/Women in military Segment 4: Larry Kelle...
Bought by WUFT
- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
For the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Teajay details his world, before and after the event through his lens as a youth.
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 18:40
More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 53:40
In October, President Obama declared that a major chapter in American military history was about to come to a close...
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I c...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 1
In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its schools rather than integrate. The closures lasted for five years, and the people who were denie...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KZYX, WESM 91.3 FM and more
- Added: Jan 12, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
On March 27, 1964, the largest earthquake ever to strike North America sparked tsunamis that destroyed a village. Paul Timothy Selanoff lived to te...
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Mar 24, 2008
- Length: 06:39
- Purchases: 1
