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Today, the City of Philadelphia unveils a new public monument. Octavius V. Catto, a 19th-century civil rights activist who suc ...
Air Date: September 26, 2017
Listen 49:35Vietnam Dustoff crews gather in Delaware to remember
Laughter and tears marked the reunion for Vietnam veterans who flew medical evacuation missions during the war. They gathered in Dover this weekend.
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Who is Octavius Catto? Learning about Philly’s first public monument to an African-American
Every morning, I take the 33 bus to work. And for the past few months, I’ve noticed something looks different.As the bus makes its ...
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Listen 4:28Taking it to the streets, then and now
This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is st ...
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What do Americans see in British royalty?
Even though Americans dismissed the English king in 1776, they still, 250 years later, seem to have a residual affection for — and curiosity about — the British royals.
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The Huey With all the attention to the recent Ken Burns documentary we welcome you to our First special on the Vie ...
Air Date: September 22, 2017
Vietnam: The war that was waged in my head
In the winter of my 13th year, I made a momentous life decision. I marched into my parents’ suburban kitchen and declared that when ...
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Who fights our wars? Other people’s children
A volunteer-only army outsources foreign wars to the poor and working class — one of the worst legacies of Vietnam, which was also fought mostly by less-privileged Americans.
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Philly couple who exposed Vietnam-era FBI secrets say democracy needs whistleblowers
It was Bonnie Raines’ job to case the joint. Her target: the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. If all went according to pla ...
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Philly activists who burglarized Hoover’s FBI call for more whistleblowers
If all went according to plan, Raines and fellow anti-war activists would pull off a burglary that would go down in history as exposing J ...
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Five ways Hollywood looks at Vietnam [video]
As Ken Burns turns his documentary lens on Vietnam, WHYY’s Patrick Stoner examines five ways Hollywood has explored the war. ...
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The Philly Vietnam wall still speaks to and for many [video]
This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is ...
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Video artist traces the scars of war from South Philly to Vietnam
A Philadelphia video artist born in Vietnam is shooting a documentary chronicling his personal connection to scars the war left on the landscape.
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This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is st ...
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18 years ago today, Tropical Storm Floyd dumped excessive rainfall, spurring record flooding
Tropical Storm&n ...
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