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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
The first special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio on January 22nd, 2023, this f...
- Added: Feb 22, 2023
- Length: 59:00
David Ben Shabat hates being called a prophet. As he sees it, he’s just a guy who stumbled upon a deep truth and wants to share it with the people....
- Added: Oct 26, 2020
- Length: 59:17
A look at why Rogers was so influential in his time and still talked about today
- Added: Mar 05, 2020
- Length: 01:01
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
For this edition of Making Contact, we’ll present the documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a reflection on the rise of the women’s libe...
- Added: May 14, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Marrying the person you love is the ideal, right? So what happens when you finally get to do that, only to have the government tell you, never mind...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 31:17
- Purchases: 1
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 20:05
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
A short story from a Egyptian perspective who lives in The USA and visited his parents in Egypt just before The Revolution on January 25, 2011.
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 05:21
The U.S. Army wants to expand a training area in SE Colorado, and it may use eminent domain to acquire thousands of acres of private ranchland. If...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Oct 16, 2008
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
A three-part series about the impact of the Holocaust on grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, today's third generation.
- Added: Jul 11, 2008
- Length: 30:27
One-hour documentary about the life and legacy of Barbara Jordan, the first black woman from the South to serve in the U.S. Congress.
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Feb 04, 2008
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 3
Jay Allison hosts a documentary exploring the history of Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series of the early 1950s.
Bought by WEZU, Marfa Public Radio, KJZZ, and WCBU
- Added: Oct 05, 2007
- Length: 44:00
- Purchases: 4
Jay Allison hosts a documentary exploring the history of Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series of the early 1950s.
Bought by Maine Public Radio, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, KZYX, Marfa Public Radio and more
- Added: Sep 24, 2007
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 23
The story of a little-known US-sponsored program that removed 14,000 children from Cuba just after the Cuban revolution, as told by a woman who was...
- Added: Apr 13, 2007
- Length: 16:59
- Purchases: 3
Marc Steiner's personal essay of the trip he organized with three veterans to return to Vietnam 30 years after the fall of Saigon.
Bought by KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, New England Public Media, KXOT Public Radio and more
- Added: Sep 22, 2006
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 8
