50 years ago, most of the nation was glued to "gavel-to-gavel" coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings that would uncover major abuses of power by the Nixon administration. In this episode – how a decision to speak up blew the lid off the largest political scandal in American history.Learn more ab...

Monique "Muffie" Mousseau and her partner Felipa Deleon grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In this episode, they share the long and sometimes painful journey of fighting for their love, their community, and their ancestors...all while making history.Learn more about sponsor messa...

Jason Romero was given a serious diagnosis. But to stop running from it he'd have to do something no one had ever done before.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In 1920, a father made a split-second decision to save his newborn's life by taking her to an incubator exhibit at Coney Island. We meet her in this episode, and she shares how a sideshow attraction saved her life, and thousands of others, when hospitals couldn't, ultimately changing the course of A...

In 1968, just moments after Robert F. Kennedy was shot, a young photographer for The Los Angeles Times — Boris Yaro — captured the scene in an image that's haunted the nation ever since. In this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we remember RFK and we revisit the story of that famous photo.Learn mo...

Rabbi Philip Lazowski remembers a quick decision that saved his life during the Holocaust.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

This season on the StoryCorps Podcast from NPR, eight stories about eight moments that changed everything.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

On this short Memorial Day episode, we'll hear from Marine Lance Cpl. Travis Williams, an Iraq War veteran who lost every other member of his 12-man squad.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

On this short Mother's Day episode, Madzimoyo Owusu came to StoryCorps with her daughter, Johannah Owusu, to honor the memory of the woman who helped shape her life.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

On this extra holiday episode, Terri Van Keuren, Richard Shoup and Pamela Farrell remember how their father, Air Force Colonel Harry Shoup, started the holiday tradition of tracking Santa Claus on U.S. military radar in 1955. donate.storycorps.org/podcastLearn more about sponsor message choices: pod...

What happens when paralyzing fear stops you from following your dream? In our final episode of the season...Jim Von Stein has written 8000 songs, but almost nobody has heard a single one of them...until now...Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In the early 90s, teenagers LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman recorded a week of their lives on Chicago's South Side. Working with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, LeAlan and Lloyd produced a documentary they called Ghetto Life 101, one of the most acclaimed programs in public radio history. In remembrance...

In the second part of our Kalaupapa story, we hear how people exiled from society reconnected with family – and found a new community. donate.storycorps.org/podcastLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In this two-part special, we remember a community of forgotten people cast out to a remote Hawaiian island. http://donate.storycorps.org/podcastLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Family names bind one generation to the next. But what if that name is lost? In this episode, a grieving family learns their legacy is being kept alive by a stranger from far away.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

We usually lean on our elders for wisdom and support... but sometimes it's the other way around. In this episode, we hear from queer men who found acceptance in one another.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Capt. Helen Perry talks with her husband, Sgt. Matthew Perry, about the impacts of Matthew's memory loss – and their enduring love.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In this episode, we share one couple's story of love and loss under the weight of substance abuse – told through different recordings, twelve years apart.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

On this season of the StoryCorps Podcast, stories of the stigmas we carry, and how it feels when we set them down.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

On this short Labor Day episode, we'll hear from sisters Suzi and Donna Wong about growing up in the back of their parents' laundry business in Hollywood, CA.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Growing up in the 1950s in Montgomery, AL., Rev. Farrell Duncombe or "Little Farrell," as he was known by his family and friends, had a mischievous side. In this short episode, he remembers the day he got called out by the mother of civil rights.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoic...

Growing up in the 1960s, all of the neighborhood kids wanted to be at Mary Mills' house. In this short extra, she tells her mother why.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In this short bonus episode, we'll hear fromMs. Betty Thompson on what led her to work at the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Everyone's heard of James Brown and Stevie Wonder, but how about the women who helped make them who they are? For our last episode of this season, we'll get to know the unsung icons behind some of the most iconic music.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy...

This year marks two big anniversaries that helped change the world of sports and society. We'll hear from some of the people who were a part of these groundbreaking moments.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In 2018, Tennille Moore got some bad news and was crying in a public restroom. That's when Mumtaz Champsi stepped in and asked her if she'd like to take a walk. In this episode, we'll hear about how that walk led to a StoryCorps booth and an unlikely connection between strangers.Learn more about spo...

In this episode, we head to the streets of South Central Los Angeles to meet a helper on horseback.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

With Memorial Day weekend coming up, we're thinking about sacrifice, and the bonds that form between people who literally go through war together; on the battlefield and at home.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Several years ago, Jennifer Hidrogo made a promise to her neighbor. In this episode, she shares how that simple act resulted in her gaining three more children and finding her calling.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In this episode, we'll hear about two people who help during the most important moments of our lives: when we're brought into the world and when we leave it.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

A few months ago, we asked our listeners one question. We then received hundreds of responses that made even our most hardened producers tear up. In this episode, find out what that question was and how it inspired our new season.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

This season of the StoryCorps Podcast is all about the helpers around us. It drops May 3rd.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Neil Kramer and his ex-wife Sophia Lansky talk about their unique quarantine experience together.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In 1993, Los Angeles County firefighter Derek Bart saved a child from a house fire in Santa Clarita, CA. In our last episode of the season, we'll hear three different perspectives on that night, and how they all intersect nearly 30 years later.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices...

All season long, we've heard from trailblazers at the top of their game in every field. In this episode, we mean that literally. We'll hear from three different athletes who shook things up on the baseball field and on the basketball court.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com...