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Eyewitness by Radio Diaries

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Unscripted audio documentaries require a particular talent. It demands the ability to convey and elicit a full range of human emotion in minutes, not hours, and do it in a way that listeners can understand viscerally with no further explanation. This art has been perfected by Joe Richman and the team at Radio Diaries. For 30 years, this team has encouraged and empowered individuals to report on their own lives. They work closely with everyday people to document their experience in diary form, and listeners hear actual histories unfiltered by the forces that shape how we collectively remembe...

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Surviving the Tulsa Race Riot 06.08.2025 5:16

On May 31, 1921, six-year-old Olivia Hooker was home with her family when a group of white men launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 hours, the mobs destroyed more than 1000 homes and businesses. It’s estimated as many as 300 people were killed. The Tulsa Race Riot is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. Olivia Hook...

American Migrant 06.08.2025 11:25

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 meet. So they left Arkansas and followed the hundreds of thousands who had traveled Route 66 to California. There, the federal government had built res...

The Man in the President's Limo 06.08.2025 8:29

60 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, there are many photos from that day in 1963. But one image in particular caught people’s attention, spreading in newspapers across the country: a photo of a Secret Service agent jumping onto the back of the presidential limousine during the shooting. This is the story of the man in that photo: Clint Hill.