Category: Witness

“What was it like being a chaplain at war in Vietnam?”

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Carol Harllee interviews her father, Robert.

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Recorded in Charlottesville, VA.

“He said, 'When the border patrol changes shifts, you're going to run.'”

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Blanca Alvarez tells her daughter, Connie, about crossing the border from Mexico to the United States.

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Recorded in Los Angeles, CA. Click here for more from Historias.

“He said, 'Someone told me you might feed my family.'”

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81-year-old Virginia Fairbrother tells her daughter, Laurel Kaae, a story from the Depression.

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Recorded in Bismarck, ND.

“I still see him in my dreams.”

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World War II veteran Joseph Robertson tells his son-in-law, John Fish, Jr., about a soldier he killed in combat.

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Recorded in Columbus, OH.

“What was the saddest moment of your life?”

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Ezra Awumey to his grandfather, Sam Harmon.

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Recorded in Washington, D.C..

“I never knew how people were going to respond when I said Tom died of AIDS.”

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Mary Caplan tells her friend Emily Collazo about her brother's death from AIDS in the early 1980s.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“All I know is I was given the bag complete, which they had filled with about fifteen pigeons.”

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Mitchell Agoos remembers protesting the 1955 Carnegie Hall debut of conductor Herbert von Karajan, a former member of the Nazi party.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“We would drive into whatever was the closest town and approach the police and ask, 'Where is the colored section?'”

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Patricia Adams tells her friend Louisa Stephens about traveling in the South during segregation.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“Don't ever let anybody tell you they can do something to you. You're free, man. You don't have to take that.”

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Ralph Tremonte and Donald Weiss, who spent their childhoods together in a psychiatric hospital, reunite after 40 years.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“And I asked him everything that I ever wanted to ask. I asked him to tell me the real story.”

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Debbie Fisher remembers her father, an Auschwitz survivor.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

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