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Guest Spotlight: The Phantom of the World's Fair

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Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week we're featuring a story we loved from the StoryCorps podcast.

In 1964, a 12-year-old paperboy from suburban Long Island spent nearly two weeks hiding among the gleaming attractions of the New York World's Fair. His adventure caused a media sensation. But the world only learned half the story.

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0:00.0

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Radio Topia. From PRX. From PRX is Radiotopia, this is Radio Diaries. I'm Joe Richmond. This week we're bringing you a story from our friends over at StoryCorps.

0:44.0

If you don't know StoryCorps, they've been crafting intimate personal stories for over 20 years.

0:49.0

They just come out with a new season called My Way.

0:52.0

It's all about people who marched to the beat of their own name. They just come out with a new season called My Way.

0:52.6

It's all about people who marched to the beat of their own drum.

0:56.0

And this episode is about a 12-year-old paper boy

0:58.6

from Long Island, who in 1964 spent nearly two weeks hiding at the World's Fair.

1:04.8

His adventure caused a media sensation at the time,

1:08.1

but the world only learned half of his story.

1:11.3

This is the Phantom of the World's Fair.

1:15.5

Growing up, Jane Breen's favorite time of day was bedtime, because that's when her father

1:20.8

Nick would sit on her bed and tell stories.

1:24.0

One of my favorites was called the Phantom of the World's Fair.

1:29.0

And when I was requesting the story, I always said,

1:31.0

tell the one about the world's fair dad.

1:33.6

In this bedtime story Jane's dad was the main character

1:38.2

a kid from suburban Long Island who ran away from home and for 11 days lived as a fugitive at the 1964 New York

1:47.4

World's Fair.

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