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Government WVPB Staff, Apr. 18, 2023

Holocaust Remembrance Day And Shepherd University Encourages Campus Carry Dialogue, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, it is Holocaust Remembrance Day by the Jewish calendar in recognition of the 80th anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. The day honors six million Jews murdered during the war.

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Arts & Culture Trey Kay, Nov. 11, 2021

Us & Them Talks With Medal Of Honor Recipient Woody Williams

Us & Them host Trey Kay honors Veterans Day with a remarkable conversation with Hershel Woodrow “Woody” Williams, the last surviving World War ll U.S. Marine recipient of the Medal of Honor.

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Arts & Culture Greg Jordan/Bluefield Daily Telegraph, May. 17, 2021

World War II Veteran From W.Va. Becomes Oldest Organ Donor

A World War II veteran who passed away recently has proven that it’s possible to keep helping others by giving the gift of life and becoming the oldest recorded organ donor in United States history.

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Arts & Culture Trey Kay, Jul. 10, 2019

Immigrant ‘Concentration Camps’ on the Southern Border?

U.S. immigration policies are very much in the spotlight recently with reports on conditions at some of the southern border detention camps and fresh…

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Radio May. 30, 2017

May 30, 1914: Nurse Dolores Dowling Born

Nurse Dolores Dowling was born in South Point, Ohio, on May 30, 1914. After graduating from Huntington’s St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing in 1934,…

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Radio May. 16, 2017

May 16, 1925: Author Henry William Hoffman Born in Charleston

Author Henry William Hoffman was born in Charleston on May 16, 1925. After his father left the family in the early 1930s, William and his only sibling,…

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