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Women crossing the border, photo by Julian Cardona

Undocumented War, Part 2- Minutemen {format} 6:30 Scott Carrier

A five-part portrait of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border: nervous Mexicans just before they cross, vigilantes patrolling the US side, a coyote (human smuggler), and a woman whose Arizona border ranch gives her a front-row seat for the biggest wave of human migration in a century. Julián Cardona- Almargen; Periodismo de investigaci—n, medios y literatura
armed vigilantes patrol the U.S. line.

Broadcast: May 24 2005 on APM MarketplaceSeries: The Undocumented War Subjects: Hispanic, International, Labor, Justice


Women crossing the border, photo by Julian Cardona

Undocumented War, Part 1- Border {format} 5:30 Scott Carrier

A five-part portrait of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border: nervous Mexicans just before they cross, vigilantes patrolling the US side, a coyote (human smuggler), and a woman whose Arizona border ranch gives her a front-row seat for the biggest wave of human migration in a century. Julián Cardona- Almargen; Periodismo de investigaci—n, medios y literatura
with writer Charles Bowden.

Broadcast: May 23 2005 on APM MarketplaceSeries: The Undocumented War Subjects: Hispanic, International, Labor, Justice


Don Henry Ford photo

Don Henry Ford 3: A Smuggler’s Story {format} {format} 7:46 Scott Carrier

Drug lords and doing time: The final part of a profile of Don Henry Ford, a convicted drug smuggler who made millions smuggling marijuana. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 20 2005 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Smuggler’s Story Subjects: International, Business


Don Henry Ford photo

Don Henry Ford 2: A Smuggler’s Story {format} {format} 7:46 Scott Carrier

Dying for drugs: The second of a three-part profile of Don Henry Ford, a convicted drug smuggler who made millions smuggling marijuana. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 19 2005 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Smuggler’s Story Subjects: International, Business


Don Hentry Ford photo

Don Henry Ford 1: A Smuggler’s Story {format} {format} 7:48 Scott Carrier

A three-part profile of Don Henry Ford, a convicted drug smuggler who made millions smuggling marijuana across the Texas border in the 1970s and 80s. He had run-ins with police and drug lords, was jailed and nearly executed, lied, cheated and stole -- and still continued to smuggle, even when nearly all his fellow criminals were either dead or in prison. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 18 2005 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Smuggler’s Story Subjects: International, Business


Schematic for homeradio radio with rzor blade, pencil, wire

Radio Link for WWII Prisoners in Japan {format} {format} 3:39 Jeff Rice

For the 60th anniversary of Germany’s surrender in World War II: British Col. R.G. Wells was among a group of soldiers in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp who heard the news on a makeshift radio they built and hid in the camp’s latrine. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 6 2005 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: War, International, Technology


Prisoners lined up

Reports from Nazi Death Camps {format} {format} 7:45 Barrett Golding

During the weeks leading up to the surrender, Allied soldiers liberated Nazi concentration camps across Europe and reporters soon brought the full story of the Holocaust to the world. We hear BBC (Patrick Gordon Walker) and CBS (Ed Murrow) broadcasts made six decades ago by war correspondents viewing the camps for the first time. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 4 2005 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: News, International, War


Mexican kids in a border town

The Last Frontier {format} 10:02 Jesse Boggs

Post-991 security changes on the Texas-Mexico border affect people living on both sides of La Frontera.

Broadcast: Apr 30 2005 on APM Weekend America Subjects: Public Affairs, International, Historical, Hispanic


Map of Romania

Homeless Romanian Dwarf {format} {format} 2:42 Larry Massett

Winter in a cold country is hard on the homeless, especially in Romania, where cities are full are people with no place to live. That’s a statistic, though. We hardly ever meet these people as actual human beings. Writer and anthropologist Alyssa Goodman describes an encounter she witnessed on the streets of Bucharest, late one night. [transcript]

Broadcast: Apr 20 2005 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Public Affairs, Youth, International


Private contracter Fluer in Iraq

Private Sector {format} 59:00 Nancy Updike

Award winner: Congrats to Nancy for winning the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for Excellence In Electronic Media/Radio. 20,000 civilian contractors are part of the American forces in Iraq. They have been killed by roadside bombs, they were interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Ira devotes the whole This American Life hour this documentary on the lives of several: including a Boston policeman teaching Iraqis the trade, and a screener at Baghdad airport: private citizen on the payroll of an occupying power.

Broadcast: Mar 11 2005 on PRI/WBEZ This American Life Subjects: War, Business, International, Public Affairs





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