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Part Two-The Naval Battalion
From: Jan Thompson
Series: The Tragedy of Bataan
Caption: U.S.S. Canopus
This segment is about the Naval Ground Battalion that was created using sailors from the U.S.S. Canopus. The Imperial Japanese had started to land ...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
Part Three-New Protein Sources
From: Jan Thompson
Series: The Tragedy of Bataan
Caption: Wounded Eating at Jungle Hospital on Bataan, Credit: National Archives
Segment Three Background Info: This segment goes into detail about how the food situation became so bad in the Philippines that the troops had to b...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
Part One-The Beginning of the End
From: Jan Thompson
Series: The Tragedy of Bataan
Caption: Philippines bombed by the Imperial Japanese
This segment begins with the attack on the Philippine Islands shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. At the beginning of the outbreak of the war...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 1
Henry Nicholas Gunther, November 11, 1918
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Officially the last American to be killed in World War I. In a cruel twist of fate, Henry Gunther "cheated life" by dying needlessly on a field in ...

Bought by WRVG - Georgetown College Student Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fields of Remembrance
From: With Good Reason
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With Veteran's Day coming up, we take a moment to remember the veterans from the Second World War, when a general takes his students to France to h...

Bought by KCNP and 'The Sea'


  • Added: Oct 07, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Honoring Our Veterans
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The nation is losing 850 World War II veterans a day. One Virginia general is seeing that their sacrifice is remembered. Kelley Libby reports.

Bought by KENW, KHSU, KKWE Niijii Radio, Delta College Public Radio, and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Oct 07, 2011
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 5
THE STRANGE HISTORY OF DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL -- Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, San Francisco, CA 9/14/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato talk lies, prejudice, and windows of opportunity.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2011
  • Length: 16:48
Vets' Healing Journeys To Vietnam (Peace Talks Radio) [59:00/54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Two United States Vietnam Veterans talk about their journeys back to Vietnam to meet their former enemies and try to heal themselves of Post Trauma...

Bought by KRWG, KGLP, KWSO, WORT, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Confederate Outlaw
From: With Good Reason
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The American Civil War has produced a number of mythical characters. Perhaps there are none like the notorious Champ Ferguson, a Confederate guerri...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Take Care of the Living
From: With Good Reason
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When the American Civil War ended, Southern veterans faced the same shattered family lives and economic hardships that U.S. war veterans face today.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Gertrude Bell (founder of Iraq), July 11, 1926
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Who was she? Imagine Indiana Jones or Lawrence of Arabia ... think of them in skirts ... and you're close. Archeologist, diplomat, writer and poet ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Horses and Water in the Civil War
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Most Civil War scholarship focuses on generals and their armies. But historians at a recent conference explored how water, heat, and horses affecte...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
Horses and Water in the Civil War
From: With Good Reason
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Horses, water, and the weather: forgotten causes of the Civil War's outcome.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
Chris Hedges on the Myth of Human Progress
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Renowned author Chris Hedges paints a bleak picture of our world today, in rapid economic, environmental, and religious decline-but we still have a...

  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: How a 12-year-old foiled the FBI
From: KALW
Caption: Robert Tsutakawa spoke with his daughter Susan Tsutakawa in the San Francisco StoryCorps booth
It’s the year 1942. The United States has just joined the war in the Pacific. On the home front, the FBI is investigating and interning Japanese-Am...

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  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
William T. Tutte (British Codebreaker), May 2, 2002
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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He was shy, geeky ... a genius ... and helped turn the tide in World War II.

  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
To The Fallen: Memorial Day - Part 1
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Memorial Day Poster, Credit: Beverly & Pack
Part one of a two-hour remembrance for Memorial Day... Since the ending of the Civil War in 1865, America has lost over 700,000 soldiers. For Memor...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 44:32
  • Purchases: 1
Marcel Mangel(Marceau), September 22, 2007
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Corrie Ten Boom, April 15, 1983
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The Ten Boom family hides Jews and members of Dutch resistance from the Nazis in a secret room. Raided by the Gestapo, Corrie, her sister and their...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Dean Urdahl and the 1862 Dakota War
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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Minnesota State Representative, retired teacher and author Dean Urdahl discusses the 1862 Dakota War and Its Aftermath. Urdahl not only has a fami...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WRPI


  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 36:06
  • Purchases: 2
The U.S. Institute of Peace: A Profile (Peace Talks Radio) [54:00/59:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: United States Institute of Peace New World Headquarters, Credit: USIP
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established in 1984 and funded by Congress to increase th...

Bought by KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUOW, WFIU, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Pioneers of Flight: Tuskegee Airmen in Transition
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: Lt. Col. Ivan Ware, Credit: Courtesy Air Force Magazine
Lt. Col. Ivan Ware has known war. For thirty-two months, he served in Europe. He’s been bombed at, shot at, and fought back. But his battles did...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
Problem Solving, Then Poetry - Kwame Anthony Appiah & C.K. Williams
From: Open Source
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We're talking with Kwame Anthony Appiah and C.K. Williams this week. The philosopher and storyteller Kwame Anthony Appiah at Princeton is on the tr...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Pearl Harbor...Generational Perspectives
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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3 Generations compare their perspectives on this very important day in history

Bought by WMUU-LP, 'The Sea', WXDU, and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Last of Murrow's Boys: Richard C. Hottelet
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: This Just In!
Caption: Broadcasting Legend Richard C. Hottelet
Step back in time with legendary reporter and "Murrow Boy" Richard C. Hottelet as he takes listeners from high above the beaches of Normandy down t...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 53:32

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