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It’s worth a watch in and of itself, but we also learned today that Jisoo was one of the winners in the animation category of the MY HERO International Film Festival. Congratulations, Jisoo! And thanks for your work.

But on this day 75 years ago, Pablo Casals and Robert Johnson both made recordings that would change music history. This story originally aired on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Production notes:
Our story ends with a song put together by Brendan Baker, imagining Casals and Johnson performing together.

Thanks to author Paul Elie (who led us to this idea), musician Scott Ainslie, and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. And we want to remember and celebrate the long and wonderful musical careers of blues guitarist Honeyboy Edwards and cellist Bernard Greenhouse. Both men continued to perform into their 90′s, and both men died this year, not long after we interviewed them for this story.

“When Robert Met Pablo,” a remix by Brendan Baker – (download)

Pablo Casals’ Sarabande in C

Robert Johnson’s Ramblin’ On My Mind

As they traveled east, veterans from all over the country joined up. By July, more than 20,000 veterans and their families had arrived in the nation’s capital. They established a tent city and vowed to stay until their demands were met. But finally, in a historic confrontation, General Douglas MacArthur’s Army troops routed the Bonus Army and burned their camp to the ground. This story originally aired on NPR’s All Things Considered.

In the summer of 1932, a group of World War I veterans in Portland, Oregon hopped a freight train and started riding the rails to Washington DC. They were demanding immediate payment of a cash bonus the government had promised them after the war – but delayed until 1945. Desperate for relief in the worst year of the Depression, the vets wanted their bonuses now. They called themselves the Bonus Army.

As they traveled east, veterans from all over the country joined up. By July, more than 20,000 veterans and their families had arrived in the nation’s capital. They established a tent city and vowed to stay as long as it took for their demands to be met….until, in a historic confrontation, General Douglas MacArthur’s Army troops routed the Bonus Army and burned their camp to the ground.

The March of the Bonus Army airs on NPR’s All Things Considered at around 4:30 EST today, 11/11/11 (of all the dates in the century, that one is the most fun to type). Tune in if you can, or find it here at the new-and-improved Radio Diaries.

In 1945, Willie McGee was accused of raping a white woman. The all-white jury took less than three minutes to find him guilty and McGee was sentenced to death. Over the next six years, the case went through three trials and sparked international protests and appeals from Albert Einstein, William Faulkner, Paul Robeson, and Josephine Baker. McGee was defended by a young Bella Abzug arguing her first major case. But in 1951, McGee was put to death in Mississippi’s traveling electric chair. His execution was broadcast live by a local radio station. Today, a newly discovered recording of that broadcast provides a chilling window into a lost episode of civil rights history. Narrated by Bridgette McGee, this documentary follows a granddaughter’s search for the truth about a case that has been called a real-life To Kill A Mockingbird. This story originally aired on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Web Special: Learn more about the hidden chapters of the Willie McGee story.

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