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It Was Said
It Was Said is a limited documentary podcast series looking back on some of the most powerful, impactful and timeless speeches in American history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize win...
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Listen to It Was Said, a Society & Culture podcast by Audacy Podcasts | The HISTORY Channel. Stream 23 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Eleanor Roosevelt, and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt champions the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a foundational document proclaiming that “all human b...
FDR’s Pearl Harbor Address
Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress for a declaration of war against Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor – a date, he says, which wil...
Frederick Douglass, What To The Slave Is The Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass delivers a searing speech on the Fourth of July, summoning the nation to remedy the contradiction between slavery and the...
Margaret Chase Smith’s Declaration of Conscience
Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith breaks with partisan orthodoxy to take a stand against the demagoguery of Joseph McCarthy.
Ronald Reagan's D-Day Commemoration
Ronald Reagan commemorates the 40th anniversary of D-day. Linking past and present, he harks back to the landing in Normandy to revive a sen...
Nelson Mandela, I Am Prepared To Die
Nelson Mandela stands trial for challenging the apartheid regime in South Africa. Speaking from the defendant’s dock at Pretoria, he defiant...
Margaret Thatcher, The Lady’s Not For Turning
Margaret Thatcher resolves not to change course despite mounting criticism of her economic policy in Britain. The lady's not for turning, sh...
Theodore Roosevelt, Man In The Arena
Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at the Sorbonne in Paris, outlines the vital role and responsibility of the ordinary citizen in a republic.
John F. Kennedy, We Choose To Go To The Moon
John F. Kennedy delivers a historic speech at Rice University on his daring and uncertain mission to land a man on the moon before the end o...
Winston Churchill, The Finest Hour
Confronted with the impending threat of Nazi invasion, Winston Churchill outlines the stakes of the war and rallies the British people to fi...
Welcome to It Was Said, Season 2, with Jon Meacham
Welcome to Season Two of It Was Said, a documentary podcast series that looks back on 10 of the most powerful, impactful and timeless speech...
John F. Kennedy, A Summons To Service
Ep 10: On a bright and snowy morning a young president summons a nation and a generation to the work of history with his enduring inaugural...
John Lewis, We Want Our Freedom Now
Ep 9: A twenty three year old John Lewis, speaking at the March On Washington, calls a nation to moral account. He didn’t want to be patient...
Hillary Clinton, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
Ep 8: In the tradition of Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Beijing to argue that women’s rights are human rights, settin...
Barbara Jordan, Your Keynote Speaker
Ep 7: A daughter of the segregated south, Barbara Jordan, keynotes the Democratic National Convention of 1976. It was America’s bicentennial...
Edward R. Murrow Fights for Free Press
Ep 6: A demagogic politician, exaggerated claims, an insatiable thirst for attention and controversy, and a national climate of fear and anx...
Ronald Reagan’s Farewell Address
Ep 5: Ronald Reagan brings his long American odyssey to a close in his presidential farewell address, an evocation of America as a shining c...
Meghan McCain, and Her Father’s America
Ep 4: Meghan McCain delivers a provocative eulogy for her father, the war hero and senator, John McCain, at Washington National Cathedral. I...
President Obama's Charleston Sermon
Ep 3: Barack Obama goes to Charleston, South Carolina in the wake of a white supremacist’s massacre of innocents at Emanuel AME Church. In w...
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