Jun 27th, 2008 · Boise, USA is a new play that tells the story of the Boise sex scandal of 1955. Playwright Gene Franklin Smith likens the fear instilled in the citizens of Boise, Idaho, to that stirred up by the federal government after the 9/11 attacks. Iris Mann
May 29th, 2008 · In 1955, the sponsor of a radio show called Sgt. Preston of the Yukon put deeds for one square inch of land along the Yukon River into cereal boxes — 21 million tiny parcels in all. Many are now wondering what that land is worth.
Sep 6th, 2007 · One of the longest-running weekly rodeos takes place not in Texas or Wyoming but in south Jersey. Grant Harris runs Cowtown Rodeo, which was started by his father and has been family-run since 1955.
Jul 29th, 2007 · Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party suffered humiliating losses in parliamentary elections Sunday after a string of political scandals, exit polls showed, but Abe said he did not plan to resign. The Liberal Democratic Party has ruled Japan almost without interruption since 1955, but is expected to lose its majority in the upper house.
May 8th, 2007 · As the cleanup and rebuilding efforts get underway after Friday's Category 5 tornado devastated Greensburg, Kan., residents of a nearby town recall a similar trial they faced. Longtime residents of Udall, Kan., saw their town hit by a monster twister in 1955. Michele Norris talks with Jerrold Hoffman.
Sep 29th, 2006 · Gun maker Cecil Brooks, whose hand-crafted firearms have been presented as gifts to keynote speakers at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting since 1955, died recently of heart failure at the age of 93.
May 8th, 2006 · District Attorney Joyce Chiles in Mississippi is considering whether enough evidence exists to prosecute the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. FBI investigators reopened the Till case in 2004. Federal civil rights prosecutors are hamstrung by a statute of limitations, but there is no such obstacle in Mississippi.
Mar 28th, 2006 · Some Alabama state legislators want to pardon civil rights icon Rosa Parks for the 1955 arrest that triggered the Montgomery bus boycott. But others in the capital of Montgomery oppose the move, saying a pardon would imply that Parks did something wrong in the first place. Steve Chiotakis of member station WBHM in Alabama reports.