Five years ago Friday, a gunman opened fire in a parking lot in Tucson, Ariz., killing six and wounding others — including Mary Reed, who had been protecting her daughter. This is their story.
More than a grandmother, more, even, than a mentor, Doris Louise Rolison was Chloe Longfellow's best friend growing up. Their love remains inscribed with beet stains in their favorite cookbook.
Since Isaac Feliciano's wife was killed on Sept. 11, he has kept working at the same cemetery he has for 21 years — but these days, it's also a return to his own "ground zero": his wife's gravesite.
Among Coney Island's sideshows a century ago, one was different: an exhibit of premature infants. The show funded Dr. Martin Couney's pioneering work — and saved thousands, including Lucille Horn.
Thirteen-year-old Nicholas Heyward Jr. was playing with a toy gun in the stairwell of the housing complex where he lived in Brooklyn when a police officer shot and killed him in 1994.
When the truck bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, there were 21 children in the building's day care. Six survived, including Chris Nguyen and PJ Allen.
The president interviews 18-year-old, Noah McQueen, who's participating in a White House mentoring program for young men of color. "It's hard to always make the right decision," McQueen tells Obama.
One of the young students killed in Tuesday's shooting in Chapel Hill, N.C., Yusor Abu-Salha, spoke to StoryCorps last year with her former third-grade teacher.
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.
StoryCorps is a radio program that travels the country, allowing two people to sit down and interview each other. A few weeks ago, Storycorps visited Las Vegas to interview people at memory loss facilities. They sat down with people with Alzheimer's or dementia and their family members and asked them to share their stories. We'll be playing some of those interviews over the next two weeks. And we'll also have a special show on Tuesday where we talk about memory loss and how it affects people and their loved ones. Do you know someone with Alzheimer's or dementia? How has it changed their lives? How has it changed yours?
When close friends interview each other, the stories are often more intimate and revealing than talking to a reporter. Case in point: Alan Morel and Mike Genoshe talking about their hopes for their adopted son.
Janet Gordon, longtime activist in support of
those impacted by Nuclear Testing, and her daughter, recently recorded at the StoryCorps booth in Henderson.
Two continent-spanning stories recently recorded at the StoryCorps booth in Henderson, including a wartime tale of love in the London Blitz. The issue? Clint Holmes.
In this episode, a personal reminiscence of a great American, together with memories of loss--and acknowledgment of unexpected happiness. Recorded at the StoryCorps booth in Henderson.
