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Behind Barbed Wire
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Behind Barbed Wire book Jacket, Credit: Michael Williams & Richard Cahan
Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It called for the forced removal of over one-hundred-thousand ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of Edwin “Bud” Nakasone’s Experience with the Secret Language School During WWII, THE FULL PRESENTATION at the Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:01:12
The Untold Story of Edwin “Bud” Nakasone’s Experience with the US Army's Secret Language School During WWII at the Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:20
National Writers Series: Benjamin Busch
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author, actor and veteran Benjamin Busch talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist, Poet, & Memoirist Alan Proctor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Mary Gauthier's "Rifles and Rosary Beads" - Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase #89
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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On her 2018 album project, "Rifles & Rosary Beads", singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier shares the stories of American veterans by writing the songs wi...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM, KUHF, North State Public Radio, KUHF and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
Michael McFaul, author of "From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Ambassador Michael McFaul about his book "From Cold War to Hot Peace"

  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
National Writers Series: Tom Brokaw
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Journalist and author Tom Brokaw talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by Michigan Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Flip Cuddy and Christine Cuddy
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Susan Ahn Cuddy (far right) at the US Naval Air Station in Florida in 1943., Credit: Courtesy of Flip Cuddy.
Flip and Christine Cuddy remember their mother, Susan Ahn Cuddy, a Navy gunnery officer who served in World War II.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:23
RDD: I Don't Feel Like A Refugee
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Last week we met with Corine Dehabey, the Director of Programs at US Together a non-profit Refugee Resettlement Agency. This week we meet one of th...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 06:17
CJ Chivers, Author of 'The Fighters'
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews CJ Chivers about his book "The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq"

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 30:11
Pam Jenoff, author of "The Lost Girls of Paris"
From: Boise State Public Radio
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Bob Kustra interviews Pam Jenoff about her latest novel "The Lost Girls of Paris"

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:46
Airborne Hero
From: Kathleen Polanco
Caption: U.S. Military service members are represented by white headstones for the men that lost their lives during World War II at the American Cemetery, Normandy, France; June 2, 2015. This is the 71st Anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy remembering th, Credit: (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Austin Berner/Released)
A paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, one of the most highly decorated divisions in the U.S. Army, didn’t understand what it meant to be air...

Bought by Raven Radio, WTIP, KRZA, KYUK, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 7
Deborah Campbell, author of "A Disappearance in Damascus"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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An Interview with Deborah Campbell about her Investigative Non-Fiction Book "A Disappearance in Damascus"

  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
Disobeying Orders in Afghanistan
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Lt. Kane, David Evans in the middle and Capt. Beissinger, right.
Under fire for more than 10 days, David Evans and a group of soldiers got an unusual call. It was for a medical evacuation. "I asked if it was one ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 1
Oath of Blood
From: Israel Story
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Within the first days of the First Lebanon War, two families become unfortunately intertwined through the coincidence of their name.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:26
A Gift of Peace
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book Jacket Cover, Credit: Hawkeye Publishers
Hindsight is not a good way to view history. Yet, we frequently see our past with an expression of “what if”. On the other hand, even the slightest...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Sebastian Junger and Philip Caputo
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Retired U.S. diplomat Jack Segal talks with author and documentary filmmaker Sebastian Junger and journalist and novelist Philip Caputo.

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2018
  • Length: 54:32
  • Purchases: 2
Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Katya Cengel
Most of us have a basic understanding of events surrounding the Vietnam War. That understanding, however, is usually vague, and incomplete. Especia...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
291: Mind Of A Terrorist / 292: Mad As Hell, 7/21/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Mind Of A Terrorist" - What ideology or belief would compel someone to become a terrorist? This hour, a look at the psychology of politi...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
I Was Boston
From: Otis Gray
Caption: Keven Joyce, umpiring a JV baseball game in Plymouth, Credit: Otis Gray
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
StoryCorps: Etaine Raphael and Adele Levine
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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For nearly a decade, Adele Levine and Etaine Raphael worked side by side to ensure soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan would be able to na...

Bought by WEZU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WVBI-LP


  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 3
Atilano Bernardo David, WWII Veteran on Resilience
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Atilano Bernardo David, Credit: Alden Bruce
A short Memorial Day affirmation from WWII veteran, Atilano Bernardo David, describes shares his wisdom on resilience after surviving war and the B...

  • Added: May 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:51
LIVING IN AN AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMP
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative: Roman Coley Davis and Dan Marek
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Former Army intelligence collector Roman Coley Davis talks about a package he received while stationed in Afghanistan.

Bought by WEZU and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 2

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