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2024-12-05

  Last Witness: The Kerner Commission

Former Oklahoma senator Fred Harris died recently, at 94 years old. In 1967, Fred Harris and 10 senators came together and released the Kerner Report, a 1400-page explanation of the causes of the protests that filled American cities that summer. It was... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-11-21

  A Guitar, A Cello and the Day that Changed Music

November 23, 1936 was a good day for recorded music. Two men, an ocean apart, sat before a microphone and began to play. One, Pablo Casals, was a cello prodigy who had performed for the Queen of Spain. The other, Robert Johnson, played guitar and was a... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-10-24

  The John Birch Society

In today’s political climate, conspiracy theories are commonplace. But they’re nothing new. In fact, back in the 1960s, there was one organization that built a movement around them. The John Birch Society was started by a small group of wealthy busines... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-10-10

  American Migrant

During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, millions of desperate Americans abandoned their homes, farms and businesses. It was one of the largest migrations in US history. In the 1940s, Pat Rush’s family were farm laborers, exhausted by trying to make ends mee... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-09-19

  The Longest Game

In the spring of 1981, the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings met for a minor league baseball game of little importance. But over the course of 33 innings — 8 hours and 25 minutes — the game made history. It was the longest professional base... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-09-05

  When Borders Move

Ever since Texas became a state, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move — and that's exactly what happened in 1864, when torrential rains caused it to jump its banks and go south. Suddenly the border was a d... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-08-15

  Guest Spotlight: The Phantom of the World's Fair

This week we're featuring a story we loved from the StoryCorps podcast. In 1964, a 12-year-old paperboy from suburban Long Island spent nearly two weeks hiding among the gleaming attractions of the New York World's Fair. His adventure caused a media se... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-07-18

  HOUR SPECIAL: Stories from the Unmarked Graveyard

Hart Island is America’s largest public cemetery—sometimes known as a “potter’s field.” The island has no headstones or plaques, just numbered markers. More than a million people are buried on Hart Island in mass graves, there are no headstones or plaq... 		  Radio Diaries author
2024-06-20

  The Almost Astronaut (Revisited)

When it comes to the space race, we all know names like Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin. But in most moments in history, there are a few names that fall through the cracks. One of those names was Ed Dwight.When Ed was selected to train to become an ast... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-06-07

  The End of Smallpox

Humanity isn't great at eradicating diseases. But there is one disease that humanity has managed to eradicate: smallpox.Smallpox was around for more than 3,000 years and killed at least 300 million people in the 20th century. Then, by 1980, it was gone... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author