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Caption: Joseph Vigiano and John Vigiano Jr. with their father, John Vigiano Sr. circa 1994. Courtesy of Joseph Vigiano.
Retired firefighter John Vigiano, Sr. remembers both sons lost in the World Trade Center on 9/11 – John Vigiano, Jr,. also a firefighter, and Joe V...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 06:15
Caption: Jan Vigiano and John Vigiano Sr.
Retired New York City firefighter John Vigiano Sr. remembers his sons, John Jr., a firefighter, and Joe, a policeman, who both died at the World Tr...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:57
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Susan Moinester tells her daughter, Margot, about how her parents met during the liberation of the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1945, and w...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on Culture Clique I talked with cartomancy expert, Gloria Alatorre about the services she offers to others to help with their spiritual journ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 16:34
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For the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Former Marine Sergeant Jason Thomas opens up to his youngest son, Jason Christian Thomas, about the search and re...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Retired New York City Fire Chief Albert Petrocelli died from COVID-19 in April, nearly two decades after losing his youngest son, Mark, in the Worl...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 02:27
Caption: Melvin Pender (right) with his friend, Keith Sims, at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta last month.
During the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, many black athletes were called to protest racial inequality. Not all were able to do so. That was the case f...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rana Sodhi (L) and Harjit Sodhi hold a photograph of their late brother, Balbir Singh Sodhi, who was shot and killed at 52. Since his death, the brothers have been involved in educating others about Sikhism and the discrimination their community faces in , Credit: Mia Warren
Rana and Harjit Sodhi remember their brother, Balbir Singh Sodhi, who was killed in the very first hate crime after the September 11th attacks.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Christopher Harris
StoryCorps Legacy gives people with serious illnesses the chance to share their stories. At Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Christopher Harris recorded...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tom and Terry Sullivan holding a photo of their son, Alex
On July 20, 2012, a gunman shot and killed 12 people in a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. One of the victims was Alex Sullivan. He was ce...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: Vaughn Allex and Denise Allex
A former airline employee discusses the aftereffects of knowing he checked two 9/11 hijackers onto the plane that was flown into the Pentagon.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Talat Hamdani (left) and Armeen Hamdani (right)
Talat Hamdani remembers her son, a NYPD cadet who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was wrongfully accused of having terrorist links.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:13
Caption: Joel Tucker (left) and his friend, Gordon Blake (right)
In this special StoryCorps production, Joel Tucker and his friend Gordon Blake share Joel’s experiences following an anti-LGBTQ incident from 2000.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phillip “Buddy” De Blieck (left) and Rev. Troy Perry (right) , Credit: Rev. Troy Perry
On June 24, 1973, an intentionally set fire tore through a New Orleans gay bar killing 32. Rev. Troy Perry came to StoryCorps to recall the aftermath.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 3
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When the truck bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, there were 21 children in the building's day care. Six sur...

  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:28
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When the truck bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, there were 21 children in the building's day care. Six sur...

Bought by KOSU and KOSU


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Glenda Rike tells her son, Larry, how his father, Aubrey Rike, came to be one of the few present when President John F. Kennedy received his last r...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, KMUD, and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 4
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"He turned to me suddenly and asked: 'Is that a Givenchy you’re wearing?' And I said, 'why how clever of you, Mr. President! However did you kno...

Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, WSLR, PRX Remix, and KZYX


  • Added: Nov 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 5
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Constance Labetti remembers her boss, Ron Fazio, who died in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Shengqiao Chen (L) and Zehao Zhou (R)
Shengqiao Chen (L) tells his friend Zehao Zhou (R) about being smuggled to the U.S. aboard the Golden Venture in 1993.

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 3
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Robert Griffo remembers how his life changed after the "Black Monday" stock market crash of 1987.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 2
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Father Michael Duffy remembers his friend, Father Mychal Judge, the first official victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Christine Lesiak
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with film producers Christine Lesiak and Princella Parker.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 16:00
Caption: Japanese WWII Propaganda
A Japanese student got fellow students from England, France, the USA, Germany, China and Japan to tell each other what World War II meant to them, ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1