Category: Witness

Bob Heft remembers designing the 50 star U.S. flag as a high school student in 1958. At the time there were only 48 states in the Union.

Recorded in Saginaw, MI.

Sergeant Papsy Lemus tells her daughter Griselda about going off to war in Iraq.

Recorded in Salt Lake City, UT. Click here for more from Historias

97-year-old Willis Cressman, who survived the Bath School disaster of 1927, with Johanna Cushman-Balzer, the daughter of his younger sister, Wilma, who was also at the school that day. For images from the disaster, click here.

Recorded in DeWitt, MI.

91-year-old Donald Huffman talks about surviving the Bath School disaster of 1927. For images from the disaster, click here.

Recorded in Cedar Springs, MI.

Reverend James Seawood remembers how African-American families were forced out of Sheridan, Arkansas, when the schools attempted to integrate.

Recorded in Staten Island, NY, in partnership with the Sandy Ground Historical Society.

James Bost remembers his father, a salesman during the Great Depression, in an interview with his son Doug.

Recorded in New York, NY.

Ed Miller (L) tells his son EJ (R) about his father, Ed Miller, Sr.

Recorded in New York, NY.

Barbara Cooper (L) tells her mother, Jody Houston (R), about living with a form of the rare genetic condition, Progeria.

Recorded in Abilene, TX.

Gustavo Mestas talks to his daughter, Ileana, about escaping from Cuba to the U.S. in 1963.

Recorded in Georgetown, DE. Click here for more from Historias.

Ray Martinez remembers growing up in an orphanage during the 1950s.

Recorded in Fort Collins, CO. Click here for more from Historias.