PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical Anniversaries

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The Untold Story of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at SCSU with Dr. Juli Pitzer
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 talks with Dr. Juli Pitzer, Interim Director of the Ce...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
RDD: Honoring Cliff
From: WGTE Public Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Clifford Murphy, one of Toledo's Jazz Icons known for playing in his jazz group, The Murphy's and his Jazz Cafe, Murphy's Place, passed away over t...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 06:10
StoryCorps: Andy Downs and Angelia Sheer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Andy Downs (L) and Angelia Sheer (R)
On October 4, 1971, George Giffe, a 35-year-old Tennessee man suffering from mental illness hijacked a charter plane at gunpoint from the Nashville...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps 9/11: Isaac Feliciano
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Isaac Feliciano
Isaac Feliciano, a longtime worker at Brooklyn's historic Green-Wood Cemetery, remembers being at his job on September 11, 2001, when his wife, Ros...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Tyra Treadway and Ardyn Treadway
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Tyra Treadway (L) and Ardyn Treadway
Tyra Treadway and her daughter, Ardyn, remember their husband and father, Dr. James Kent Treadway, a beloved pediatrician in New Orleans. Dr. Tread...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:06
StoryCorps: Shelli Wright and Graham Haggett
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Shelli Wright and her son, Graham Haggett, remember his grandmother Sandra Lee Wright, who was killed on September 11, 2001. Shelli Wright and her ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering the attack on Pearl Harbor through the eyes of students
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In October, President Obama declared that a major chapter in American military history was about to come to a close... PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I c...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
Aha Moment: Underground Railroad
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
The Last Yugoslavs
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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Jonathan Groubert tells the story of a surprising encounter during his first visit to Belgrade

  • Added: Nov 23, 2005
  • Length: 05:43
Yesterday and Forever December Special
From: Helen Engelhardt
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Documentary composition featuring six widows in remembrance of Lockerbie tragedy - on 17th anniversary

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRPS, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 24:31
  • Purchases: 4
Unquiet Graves
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Special essay on living in Flanders

Bought by KMXT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public, KMSU, Public Radio East and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2005
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 11