Jason Romero was given a serious diagnosis. But to stop running from it he'd have to do something no one had ever done before.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In 1920, a father made a split-second decision to save his newborn's life by taking her to an incubator exhibit at Coney Island. We meet her in this episode, and she shares how a sideshow attraction saved her life, and thousands of others, when hospitals couldn't, ultimately changing the course of American medicine.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In 1968, just moments after Robert F. Kennedy was shot, a young photographer for The Los Angeles Times — Boris Yaro — captured the scene in an image that's haunted the nation ever since. In this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we remember RFK and we revisit the story of that famous photo.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Rabbi Philip Lazowski remembers a quick decision that saved his life during the Holocaust.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

This season on the StoryCorps Podcast from NPR, eight stories about eight moments that changed everything.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

On this short Memorial Day episode, we'll hear from Marine Lance Cpl. Travis Williams, an Iraq War veteran who lost every other member of his 12-man squad.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

On this short Mother's Day episode, Madzimoyo Owusu came to StoryCorps with her daughter, Johannah Owusu, to honor the memory of the woman who helped shape her life.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

On this extra holiday episode, Terri Van Keuren, Richard Shoup and Pamela Farrell remember how their father, Air Force Colonel Harry Shoup, started the holiday tradition of tracking Santa Claus on U.S. military radar in 1955. donate.storycorps.org/podcastLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

What happens when paralyzing fear stops you from following your dream? In our final episode of the season...Jim Von Stein has written 8000 songs, but almost nobody has heard a single one of them...until now...Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In the early 90s, teenagers LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman recorded a week of their lives on Chicago's South Side. Working with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, LeAlan and Lloyd produced a documentary they called Ghetto Life 101, one of the most acclaimed programs in public radio history. In remembrance of Lloyd, who died this week, we bring you a special presentation of Ghetto Life 101.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy