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  • “He was so busy that he would schedule surgeries for three and four in the morning.”

    Linda Kenney (R) Miller and her sister Diane Kenney (L) remember their grandfather, Dr. John A. Kenney, who founded the first hospital for African Americans in Newark, NJ.

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    Recorded in Montgomery, AL

  • “The guy that was interviewing told me I was too little.”

    Dee Dickson remembers trying to get a job as a shipyard electrician in the 1970s.

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    Recorded in Biloxi, MS

  • “I was working in the gas station...”

    Majid Al-Bahadli and his wife, Diana Klatte, remember how they met.

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    Recorded in Seattle, WA

  • “You don't have to be dirty to be poor.”

    94-year-old Mary Van Beke tells her son, Charles, about growing up in the 1920s.

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    Recorded in Knoxville, TN

  • “Ron was someone who didn't accept societal norms as being his norm.”

    Carl McNair remembers his brother, Ronald McNair, who was one of the astronauts killed aboard the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. Read more...

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    Recorded in Atlanta, GA

  • “My father would be in his boxer shorts in front of the stereo with a baton.”

    Laura Greenberg tells her daughter, Rebecca, about growing up in Queens during the 1950s.

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    Recorded in Atlanta, GA

  • “I was working for the state of Colorado...”

    Queen Jackson (R) tells her case manager, Debra MacKillop (L), how she became homeless.

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    Recorded in Denver, CO

  • “My dad had a fair amount of self-confidence and bravado.”

    Erin Ryan remembers her father, Congressman Leo Ryan, who was assassinated in 1978 while on a fact-finding mission to Jonestown, Guyana.

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    Recorded in Washington, D.C

  • “The only way that I could see out of that situation was to take my life.”

    Rob Littlefield remembers being bullied in junior high school for being gay.

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    Recorded in Oklahoma City, OK

  • “My dad in Cuba said, 'When you go there you're going to ask for George.'”

    Jose "Pepe" Noriega , one of over 14,000 children who came to the U.S. as part of Operation Pedro Pan, speaks with Lynn Guarch Pardo about the role her father, Jorge "George" Guarch, played in the historic airlift.

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    Recorded in Coral Gables, FL

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