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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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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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0:40.0 | 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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