We Interrupt This Broadcast
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We Interrupt This Broadcast
From six-time New York Times bestselling author Joe Garner, and based on his groundbreaking multimedia book, “We Interrupt This Broadcast,” comes a 12-episode, audio docu-series hosted by broadcast legend Bill Kurtis, and narrated by NBC’s Brian Williams. Each episode unfolds with the brisk pac...
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The Tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School
Friday, December 14, 2012. It was a clear, crisp, and trouble-free start that morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Classrooms filled with kids exc...
The Oklahoma City Bombing (April 19, 1995)
On April 19, 1995, two years to the day following the U.S. government’s botched raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, a rented truck...
The Freeway Chase of O. J. Simpson
He was an extraordinarily gifted athlete, the premier football player of his time, a California golden child who emerged from abject poverty to win th...
The Challenger Disaster
The Space Shuttle Challenger flew nine missions into space. But its fateful tenth mission, which lasted only 73 seconds, ensured its tragic place in h...
The Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald
Pandemonium reigned in downtown Dallas on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. An assassin's bullet had murdered President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Wit...
The War of The Worlds: The original ‘deepfake’ of 1938
“War of The Worlds” is a phenomenon of a bygone era, and of a medium a hundred years old, yet its lessons resonate to this day. It’s the original “dee...
The Hindenburg explosion – “Oh, the Humanity!” – (May 6, 1937)
The Hindenburg was an engineering masterpiece, an airship as large and as grand as the Titanic - and as doomed. On May 6, 1937, a young radio reporter...
D-Day Invasion “…about to embark up on a great crusade” – (June 6, 1944)
It was the biggest overseas military operation in the biggest war in world history - and its best kept secret as well. D Day demonstrated radio’s abil...
JFK Assassination - “In Dallas Texas, three shots were fired…” – (November 22, 1963)
He was a man in the prime of life when he traveled to Dallas, Texas in November 1963, on a routine political fence-mending mission to help shore up hi...
Apollo 11 Moon Landing - “One Small Step…” – (July 20, 1969)
It was the finale to a decade of turbulence and upheaval, but this time it was an event through which a nation could put aside its differences and sta...
President Reagan shot - “The president was [not?] hit,” – (March 30, 1981)
When Ronald Reagan was elected president in November 1980, he hoped to defy an unusually grim circumstance of that office. In the seven previous even-...
L.A. Riots following the Rodney King verdict - “Can we all get along?” – (April 29, 1992)
The first reports from Los Angeles had an all-too familiar ring - a black motorist who had been stopped by police for drunk driving was pulled out of...
The Death of Princess Di - “Princess Diana has died…” –(August 31, 1997)
She was a princess who never lived happily ever after - and the world loved her for it. Diana Spencer became a global celebrity when she wedded Englan...
The Columbine tragedy - “Shots fired at Columbine High School” – (April 20, 1999)
It was the darkest nightmare of every parent come to life - and it happened in the land of “It can’t happen here.” The setting was Littleton, Colorado...
The 2000 presidential election - “…Nobody knows for a fact who has won Florida” – (November 8, 2000)
It was the election that did not decide the presidency, and the biggest media debacle since “Dewey Defeats Truman.” The 2000 campaign between presiden...
9-11: America Under Attack - “This has to be deliberate” – (September 11, 2001)
September 11, 2001 dawned crisp and blue in New York City. The gathering hum of a seemingly ordinary workday began taking shape in lower Manhattan. Th...
The Nat Turner slave uprising of 1831 - “Band of rebels on a killing spree” (dramatization) – (August 21, 1831)
A 31-year-old enslaved man named Nathanial “Nat” Turner, who was both literate and a preacher in the Virginia slave community, led a bloody two-day up...
The passing of the 19th Amendment - “Tennessee House gives women the right to vote” – (June 4, 1919)
As long and vast as the history of our country may seem to us, the right of women to vote is shockingly new. Many of us had parents or grandparents wh...
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