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Emmanuel (Brian David Mitchell) and Elizabeth Smart in veil

Invisible Girl 13:05 Scott Carrier

For weeks after teenager Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City bedroom, she walked the streets with her captors, sometimes just blocks from her home. Yet no one ever recognized her. Not a soul, even though her picture was in every paper the entire time. How is this possible?

Broadcast: Apr 8 2005 on PRI/WBEZ This American Life Subjects: News, Religious, Youth, Justice

Segregated ‘Gone with the Wind’ Set 3:25 Ben Adair

On the set of the 1940 movie Gone With the Wind, black and white actors were originally segregated. Until actor Lennie Bluett, an extra on the set, alerted Clark Gable to the situation. Produced for KPCC- Southern California Public Radio series Pacific Drift. [transcript]

Broadcast: Feb 25 2005 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Pacific Drift Subjects: Justice, Entertainment, Historical, African American

Crossing the Border from Mexico to the U.S., Part 2 8:41 Scott Carrier

Reports on undocumented immigrants who make the journey across the U.S.-Mexico border. In the first of this three-part series, we visit a remote border location in Arizona, where immigrants brave a dangerous stretch of desert in search of a better life. [transcript]

Broadcast: Aug 26 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Crossing the Border: Mexico to the U.S. Subjects: Justice, International, Hispanic, Labor

Crossing the Border from Mexico to the U.S., Part 1 8:30 Scott Carrier

Reports on undocumented immigrants who make the journey across the U.S.-Mexico border. In the first of this three-part series, we visit a remote border location in Arizona, where immigrants brave a dangerous stretch of desert in search of a better life. [transcript]

Broadcast: Aug 25 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Crossing the Border: Mexico to the U.S. Subjects: Justice, Labor, International, Hispanic

Cover of Juarez book: man climbing over border fence

Juarez 5: Easy to Forget 8:44 Scott Carrier

The ongoing struggle to solve the numerous murders that plague the border town. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jul 19 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Juarez: City on the Edge Subjects: Hispanic, International, Justice

Juarez 2: Gangs 8:43 Scott Carrier

City on the Edge: Profiles of the people of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez -- a place troubled by rampant poverty and corruption, where violence is a daily fact of life. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 28 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Juarez: City on the Edge Subjects: International, Hispanic, Justice

Juarez 1: Poverty in the Global Economy 8:44 Scott Carrier

City on the Edge; Part 1:A series of reports from "the laboratyory of the future": Juarez, Mexico, a town on the broder. Sez Charles Bowden: "If you have questions about what the global econony will eventuate in, go to Juarez. What we call the global economy -- no tariff, barriers, etc -- has been running there since the 60s. You have a 40-year record, and what it�s produced is one of the most violent cities in the world." [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 21 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Juarez: City on the Edge Subjects: Hispanic, International, Justice

Cargo Flight to Somewhere 5:28 Crossing the BLVD

After losing his wife and daughter, and his livelihood, Bovic Antosi escapes the Democrativc republic of Congo as cargo, only to end up in a detention center adjacent to JFK airport for two years. From the Crossing the BLVD series (book/CD); interviews from mostly immigrants and refugees who now live in Queens NY. Song by Kinglsey Ogunde from Nigeria. [transcript]

Broadcast: Mar 15 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Crossing the BLVD Subjects: International, Travel, Public Affairs, Justice

Jack Ruby’s Polygraph 2:56 Gregory Whitehead

On the anniversary of the assassination of an alleged assassin, we hear the transcript of the lie-detector test administered to Jack Ruby; excerpted from "The Loneliest Road," a radio play. (Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald on Novemeber 24, 1963.) [transcript]

Broadcast: Nov 24 2003 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Justice, Politics, Historical, Drama