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The Longest Game
In the spring of 1981, the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings met for a minor league game of little importance. But over the course of 33 innings – 8 hours and 25 minutes – the game made...
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The Ski Troops of WWII
Dan Kennerly Dan Kennerly was a soldier in World War II – and he kept a diary. Wednesday, February 14, 1945: “This morning I’m up at 9 a.m. I eat and work on my jeep. Orders come down to be ready to...
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Meet Miss Subways
Most beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, one contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working girl. Each month starting in 1941, a young woman was elected...
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One of the last songs that Johnny Cash recorded before he died was called, “There Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold My Body Down).” But that song is not a Johnny Cash original. “Ain’t No Grave” was actually...
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The Girls of the Leesburg Stockade
Credit: Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos On July 19, 1963, civil rights marchers filled the streets of Americus, Georgia, to protest segregation. Many of the protesters were children, a few as young as 12...
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
EPISODE ONE: Neil Harris Jr. A few years ago, a young man who called himself Stephen became a fixture in Manhattan’s Riverside Park. Locals started noticing him sitting on the same park bench day...
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The Man on the President’s Limo
Today marks 60 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There are many photos from that day in 1963 — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air Force One, spectators’ reactions...
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The Drum Also Waltzes
At the age of 16, he played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He went on to make landmark recordings with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. He’s considered one of the most...
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My Iron Lung (Revisited)
Paul Alexander, one of two people in the United States relying on an iron lung, died recently at 78 years old. Paul contracted polio in 1952 at six years old, and has had to rely on an iron lung — a...
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Working, Then and Now
Studs Terkel 50 years ago, in 1974, oral historian Studs Terkel published a book with an unwieldy title: “Working: People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do.” This...
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