The Time Esther Williams Taught Scott Simon To Swim
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Remembrances
The Two-Way
Journalist Michael Hastings Dies In Car Crash At Age 33()
The journalist whose candid interviews of Gen. Stanley McChrystal led to the officer's eventual removal from his post has died in a car crash, according to reports.
Parallels
The Battered Old Car That Drove My Father's American Dream()
June 16, 2013 In the first few months after reporter Joanna Kakissis' family moved to the U.S., her father bought a junky, gigantic gold Oldsmobile for $200. Kakissis says Old Goldie was hard to love, but she was a symbol of the good life her father wanted to make for them.
My Father, The Pilot()
June 16, 2013 We tend to think we have our parents figured out, but we often don't. Reporter Monique Parsons knew her dad as a mild-mannered avocado farmer who rarely strayed from home. On this Father's Day, Parsons tells the story of how she discovered that her father was actually a fearless pilot.
Israeli Writer Yoram Kaniuk, 83, On Pain And Peace()
June 13, 2013 Author and journalist Yoram Kaniuk died June 8 at age 83. He joined Fresh Air's Terry Gross in August 1988 to talk about fighting in the Israeli underground and his belief that, for Israelis and Palestinians, "the only way is to live somehow together."
Simon Says
The Speech Eisenhower Never Gave On The Normandy Invasion()
June 8, 2013 The Allied invasion of the French coast of Normandy took place this week in 1944. In case that highly risky invasion had failed, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had drafted a speech taking full responsibility. Fortunately, he never had to deliver it.
A Blog Supreme
Ben Tucker: Remembering A Bassist And Citywide Icon()
June 6, 2013 Self-taught and enterprising, Tucker contributed to plenty of great jazz recordings as a sideman in New York and Los Angeles. But the log of his discography barely begins to describe the legacy he left behind in his adopted hometown of Savannah, Ga.
