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The Man in the President's Limo
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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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 Almost Astronaut
From: Joe Richman
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The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.

  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 16:36
15. Kennedy
From: Maria-Cristina Marras
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Sometimes what we remember from our childhood is confused with the stories other people tell us. A micro narration in a minute or so.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 01:03
The Ballad of Captain Dwight
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"The Ballad of Captain Dwight" is about Edward Dwight.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 18:22
Superman Comes To The Supermarket
From: PRX
Series: Esquire Classic
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Before anyone foresaw a time when a television celebrity could become president, Norman Mailer wrote in Esquire that John F. Kennedy was a mythical...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 24:38
President or Puppet?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, painted by Claude Chuchetiere c.1696., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Presidential scholar Barbara Perry discusses Protestant fears that JFK would answer to the Pope, not the American people if elected president — and...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WOUB, WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 09:39
  • Purchases: 5
From Montgomery to Ferguson
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, Credit: http://www.apbspeakers.com/
Some call it a new civil rights movement. Others simply call it “black lives matter”. We hear a conversation about waging strategic non-violence be...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Dream Remembered?: Martin Luther King Jr and the Grassroots Civil Rights Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Gary Younge, author of "The Speech" talks about Martin Luther King Junior's Dream and the story behind it.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KVSC, WVAS, WJSU and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 14
Thwarting Democracy, the Battle for Voting Rights
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bloody Sunday-Selma, Alabama
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...

Bought by KMUN and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
JFK, why he died and why it matters: James W. Douglass, JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Christian theologian and peace activist James W. Douglass tells us why he thinks JFK was assassinated. He says it was because Kennedy went up again...

Bought by KRVS


  • Added: Nov 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:08
  • Purchases: 1
WHERE WERE WE IN '63 ?
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
Caption: interviewing Irving Brecher
Interviews with New Yorkers remembering where they were on November 22nd, 1963

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 2
Jean Shepherd remembers JFK
From: MPR News Stations
Caption: Jean Shepherd at the WOR studio, Credit: Wikipedia
A eulogy of President John F. Kennedy by the late broadcaster Jean Shepherd, (1921-1999)

Bought by Indie3 Radio, Louisville Public Media, WMPG, KUOW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 6
A Letter, A March, A Dream: 1963 Retold
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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50 years after the March on Washington, syndicated columnist Reverend Byron Williams makes the case that 1963 was the pivotal year for American cul...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Harvest of Empire (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Why are they here?. Many Latin Americans came to the US because dangerous or deadly conditions-which the American government helped create. In pa...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Presidents on Stage
From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
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Presidents, both real and fictional, leading the U.S.A. on stage

Bought by KMXT, GCR (Global Community Radio), KPIK-LP, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Writers on a New England Stage: Chris Matthews
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Virginia Prescott and Chris Matthews, Credit: David Murray
The TV personality and former journalist talks about his new book, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero."

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 49:30
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 1)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
"Havana Nocturne: How The Mob Owned Cuba And Then Lost It To The Revolution"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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A look at the contending forces-the mob,a brutal dictatorship, United Fruit and Fidel Castro-prior to the Cuban revolution

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 54:37
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Catholic Worker James Douglass on: JFK and the Unspeakable
From: Chris Goldstein
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Chris Goldstein interviews Catholic Worker James Douglass on his book JFK and the Unspeakable. The book reveals a President at odds with the milita...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2009
  • Length: 33:27