Quake City Hero

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Arts/performing Arts, Society & Culture/documentary, Music, Arts, Performing Arts, Snap, Personal Journals, Storytelling, Society & Culture/personal Journals

4.7 • 11.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In 1989, an enormous earthquake struck the Bay Area. One of Oakland’s major arteries, the Cypress Freeway, collapsed. And one man named Raven left his home and dove into the wreckage to save lives.

This story comes from Liam O'Donoghue, host and producer of the podcast East Bay Yesterday.

Producers: Liam O'Donoghue and Eliza Smith

Original Score: Davey Kim

Season 9 Episode 7

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0:00.0	Snap Judgment Studios
0:07.1	Hey Snap, it was a quick favor.
0:12.8	I really want to know what you think about what's happening at Snap, our storytelling
0:16.8	and everything, so we're conducting an audience survey.
0:20.2	And I would be super grateful if you could take just a few minutes to share your thoughts.
0:25.8	Visit survey.prx.org slash snap to take the survey today.
0:31.7	It's short, I promise.
0:33.6	That's survey.prx.org slash snap.
0:39.5	Thanks.
0:41.0	Snap it.
0:48.4	A little while back.
0:49.4	One of Oakland's resident historians came to us with a story.
0:54.2	This guy Liam, he told us that we knew someone who was a real hero, like an action movie
0:59.9	style hero, an comic book style hero, from our own hometown of Oakland.
1:06.2	So we're Liam off to give this story for us.
1:08.5	It's my name, magic.
1:11.0	We say it.
1:12.0	Yeah.
1:13.0	Since of listeners, please note that this piece does contain violence, language, and graphic
1:19.3	imagery.
1:24.7	When I was about nine years old, we were at some park.
1:33.4	It was late 50s, early 60s, everybody lived kind of segregated.
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