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Jan 14

Criminal

read Episode 180: The Boycott (1.14.2022) In the late 1960s, members of the KKK held rallies in North Carolina, describing desegregation as "anti-Christian" and "communistic." When the Federal government pressured school boards to comply or lose their funding, many responded by shuttering Black schools and assigning Black students to formerly all-white schools. It was called "one-way desegregation." In a very rural part of North Carolina, Black students and their families decided to fight back.
Dec 17, 2021

Criminal

read Episode 179: A Splendid Newfoundland, Cursing Birds, and the Fashion Fox (12.17.21) Stories of animals really going for it.
Dec 03, 2021

Criminal

read Episode 178: “The experiment requires that you continue.” (12.3.2021) 1. Please continue. 2. The experiment requires that you continue. 3. It is absolutely essential that you continue. 4. You have no other choice, you must go on.
Nov 19, 2021

Criminal

read Episode 177: Palace of Justice (11.19.21) When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants, each of them high-ranking members of Nazi Germany’s death squad. The entire world was watching. Today, we take a look at the Nuremberg trials and their role in defining international law after World War II. This episode originally aired in 2018—this version includes an update with Benjamin Ferencz, who celebrated his 101st birthday earlier this year.
Nov 05, 2021

Criminal

read Episode 176: The Red Flag (11.5.21) In 2006, a man named William Ramsey went to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida for a life-saving liver transplant. It was a success, and so when his health started to decline after the procedure, doctors couldn't figure out why.
Oct 22, 2021

Criminal

read Episode 175: Ghost Racket Crusade (10.22.2021) The story of two famous friends — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini — and the disagreement that ended their friendship: can we speak to the dead?
Oct 08, 2021

Criminal

read Episode 174: The Loves (10.8.21) “There is something he hasn’t been telling me and I’m about to find out what it is.”
Sep 24, 2021

Criminal

read Episode 173: Family Money (9.24.2021) When Beverley Schottenstein’s husband Alvin died, she and her children sold their stake in his family’s business, worth an estimated 90 million dollars. Family relationships got complicated. It was hard to know who to trust. And what happened next surprised everyone. Beverley told us, “I was floored.”
Sep 10, 2021

Criminal

read Episode 172: Roselle and Michael (9.10.21) Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that something was wrong was the sound of a muffled explosion. Then the building began to tilt, and he felt the floor drop like an elevator. But Michael Hingson didn’t panic because his guide dog, Roselle, was calm.
Aug 27, 2021

Criminal

read Episode 171: Sealand (8.27.21) Today's episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming popular, they weren't played much on the radio in England. The BBC controlled the airwaves at the time, and some listeners described its music offerings as "square." So aspiring DJs packed up their record collections, got in boats, and sailed past the territorial limits of the UK, where they set up pirate radio stations in the sea—sometimes on abandoned WWII sea fo

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