Telling Stories Changes Lives, Record with StoryCorps
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Telling Stories Changes Lives, Record with StoryCorps
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Last week on NPR Morning Edition, we shared a StoryCorps #StoryoftheWeek remembering Hurricane Katrina. As the 20th anniversary approaches this Friday, we reflect on Skip Boe, who watched the storm unfold in Lakeview, New Orleans, and shared the neighbors he rescued—and the one he couldn’t. | StoryCorps
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Last week on NPR Morning Edition, we shared a StoryCorps #StoryoftheWeek remembering Hurricane Katrina. As the 20th anniversary approaches this Friday, we reflect on Skip Boe, who watched the storm unfold in Lakeview, New Orleans, and shared the neighbors he rescued—and the one he couldn’t. | StoryCorps
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In 1974, 22-year-old Randall Lanning was a missile launch control officer in rural Missouri. Every week he traveled deep underground where he worked overnight alongside a commander. There, in a small room, he manned the launch controls that could deploy nuclear weapons in the event of a Soviet attack. He recalls one night that’s still etched in his memory. Our #StoryoftheWeek, heard on NPR Morning Edition → https://storycor.ps/4qRPtGG | StoryCorps
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In 1974, 22-year-old Randall Lanning was a missile launch control officer in rural Missouri. Every week he traveled deep underground where he worked overnight alongside a commander. There, in a small room, he manned the launch controls that could deploy nuclear weapons in the event of a Soviet attack. He recalls one night that’s still etched in his memory. Our #StoryoftheWeek, heard on NPR Morning Edition → https://storycor.ps/4qRPtGG | StoryCorps
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When Hannah Mitchell was age 11, she lived across the street from Steve and Patti Erickson. She often spent time in their home playing with their daughter. At home, life was harder—her mother was living with schizophrenia and manic depression. After losing touch for more than 20 years, Hannah and the Ericksons sat down to remember how their kindness helped her hold on to memories she thought she’d lost forever. Heard on NPR Morning Edition → https://storycor.ps/4nm4TSm | StoryCorps
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When Hannah Mitchell was age 11, she lived across the street from Steve and Patti Erickson. She often spent time in their home playing with their daughter. At home, life was harder—her mother was living with schizophrenia and manic depression. After losing touch for more than 20 years, Hannah and the Ericksons sat down to remember how their kindness helped her hold on to memories she thought she’d lost forever. Heard on NPR Morning Edition → https://storycor.ps/4nm4TSm | StoryCorps
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For This Homebound Senior, A Volunteer Turned Loneliness Into Light | Story of the Week
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For This Homebound Senior, A Volunteer Turned Loneliness Into Light | Story of the Week
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In 1993, three months into her pregnancy, Marla Wendel had a debilitating stroke. She went on to deliver a healthy son, Daniel, at 33 weeks. Twenty-five years later, Daniel and Marla sat down with StoryCorps to talk about those pivotal moments and how they shaped their relationship. Our #StoryoftheWeek, as heard on NPR Morning Edition → https://storycor.ps/4pivZLt | StoryCorps
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In 1993, three months into her pregnancy, Marla Wendel had a debilitating stroke. She went on to deliver a healthy son, Daniel, at 33 weeks. Twenty-five years later, Daniel and Marla sat down with StoryCorps to talk about those pivotal moments and how they shaped their relationship. Our #StoryoftheWeek, as heard on NPR Morning Edition → https://storycor.ps/4pivZLt | StoryCorps
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As a teenager, Joseph Bond served in Vietnam as a Marine. He went on to start a family and worked for the City of Philadelphia for 35 years. But after retiring, he felt like there was something he still needed to finish—high school. In a conversation recorded for our Brightness in Black initiative, his daughter, Tramaine Crawley, recalls when he enrolled in night school at the age of 72. Listen to our #StoryoftheWeek, as heard on NPR Morning Edition → https://storycor.ps/43jSaak | StoryCorps
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As a teenager, Joseph Bond served in Vietnam as a Marine. He went on to start a family and worked for the City of Philadelphia for 35 years. But after retiring, he felt like there was something he still needed to finish—high school. In a conversation recorded for our Brightness in Black initiative, his daughter, Tramaine Crawley, recalls when he enrolled in night school at the age of 72. Listen to our #StoryoftheWeek, as heard on NPR Morning Edition → https://storycor.ps/43jSaak | StoryCorps
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Mary Lee McNelis was born with an interstitial chromosomal deletion—a rare genetic anomaly usually considered fatal. Among significant medical challenges for Mary Lee were developmental delays. By age six, she still hadn’t spoken a word. That’s when Phyllis Knighton, her grandmother and a retired public school teacher, stepped in. Against all odds, she taught her how to speak. In two conversations recorded almost 20 years apart—one with Phyllis and Mary Lee’s mother, Laura, and another with Laur
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Miss Indian World is the most prestigious Indigenous pageant in North America, where women are judged on traditional dance and talent, as well as tribal knowledge. The winner spends the next year as a Native ambassador, traveling across the continent and around the world to meet with tribal communities. Lillian Sparks Robinson won the pageant in 2000, and using what she learned during her reign, went on to serve as the Commissioner for the Administration for Native Americans under President Obam
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Over 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, we reflect on the storm’s sudden, overwhelming power—like a survivor who saw his front yard turn into a river and heard fear in his father’s voice for the first time. Listen to their story and more on the #StoryCorpsPodcast → https://storycor.ps/41pkojH | StoryCorps
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On the morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more in the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. History. This week on the #StoryCorpsPodcast, we share voices from our archive—stories of those who were there that day—including Christopher Nguyen and PJ Allen, who were among the children at the daycare center. Listen to our full episode here or wherever you get your p
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Miss Indian World is the most prestigious Indigenous pageant in North America, where young women are judged on categories ranging from traditional dance and talent to public speaking and tribal knowledge. The winner spends the next year as a Native ambassador, traveling across the continent and around the world to meet with tribal communities. Lillian Sparks Robinson won the pageant in 2000, and using what she learned during her reign, went on to serve as the Commissioner for the Administration
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Overcoming Childhood Hardships: Noe Rueda's Journey
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For many years, Rocco Galasso proudly served as the owner and superintendent of an apartment building where much of his family lived. His grandson, Nicholas, remembers when everything changed.
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Every Christmas Eve, people watch Santa Claus fly worldwide to deliver gifts to kids, using the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s (NORAD) Santa Tracker. StoryCorps shares how the merry mission started in December 1955, the height of the Cold War. #storycorps #storytelling #christmasstories #christmas #santaclaus #santatracker #noradsantatracker
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Eleanor and Lyle Gittens: Oldest Living Married Couple
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Sue McConnell and Kristyn Weed, Vietnam-era veterans and best friends, share a story of courage, both on and off the battlefield. They met in a transgender veterans' support group, bonded over coffee, and became inseparable. Ahead of #TransgenderDayofVisibility, honor their sisterhood by listening to their story. #storycorps #storytelling #animation #sisterhood #transvisibilityday #veterans #bestfriends #love #support
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In 2005, Allen Hoe’s son, 1st Lt. infantry officer Nainoa K. Hoe, was killed in action in Iraq. Not long after, on Memorial Day, a chance encounter with a stranger brought Allen unforeseen comfort. He remembers this moment. #MemorialDay #MemorialDayWeekend
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John Vigiano Sr. was a retired NYC firefighter whose two sons followed him into service—John Jr. was a firefighter, and Joe was a police detective. On 9/11, both brothers responded to the call from the World Trade Center, and both were killed while saving others. #storycorps #storytelling #september112001 #september11 #neverforget911
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Authorities in Germany say they’re investigating a weekend attack in Berlin as an act of terrorism after a man drove a vehicle into a crowd attending an annual Pride event. Police shot and killed 21-year-old Abdul Ballout in a garden allotment on the outskirts of Berlin on Sunday evening. Prosecutors say evidence was mounting to suggest the incident, which killed one and injured at least 29 others, was an Islamist terror attack — Ballout, a German national with Lebanese heritage, attempted to jo
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