Season 5 – Episode 9: Fran Harris, The First Female Newscaster in Michigan
Newscaster Fran Harris’s life was a lifetime of firsts. She was the first woman newscaster in Detroit radio during...
Season 5 – Episode 8: A Century of Mexicantown
A longstanding community called Mexicantown on Detroit’s southwest side has persevered for around a century. The area of restaurants,...
Season 5 – Episode 7: The Biography of a Rumor: The “Paul McCartney Is Dead” Hoax
Thousands of phonograph records were destroyed, as were thousands of needles used on the old-style record players. Teenage sleuths...
Season 5 – Episode 6: The Origins of Detroit Style Pizza
Sometime in the mid-1940s, an Italian immigrant bar owner by the name of Gus Guerra started making pizzas in...
Season 5 – Episode 5: The Michigan Democratic Social Club Triple Beheading
It was horrific, even by the low standards of the urban drug trade. Three dead bodies found in a...
Season 5 – Episode 4: The Native American Origins of Detroit
The beginnings of Detroit are inaccurately pinned to the arrival of Cadillac on these shores in 1701, but there...
Season 5 – Episode 3: The 1863 Civil War Riot
Smack in the middle of the Civil War, Detroit experienced a riot that was characterized as “the most brutal...
Season 5 – Episode 2: The Ford Hunger March
On a cold winter day in 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, some 3,000 or more people...
Season 5 – Episode 1: Joe Louis, The Punch of Detroit
Joe Louis may have been the most famous person to come out of Detroit. He arrived here in the...
Season 4 – Finale: Jeff Montgomery, Detroit’s Fierce LGBTQ+ Rights Activist
Jeff Montgomery was a born activist who played an important role in saving Orchestra Hall. When a hate crime...
Season 4 – Episode 9: When The Cold War Seemed Hot: Nike Missiles Around Metro Detroit, And A Nuclear Warhead On Belle Isle
Between 1955 and 1974, a nuclear war with the Soviet Union seemed like a possibility. We armed ourselves by...
Season 4 – Episode 8: Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg, How a Jewish Kid from the Bronx became a Detroit Tiger Great
Hank Greenberg, who entered the Hall of Fame as one of the greatest hitters in the game’s history, was...
Season 4 – Episode 7: The 1960s and General Motors: Consumerism Hits The Big Three
GM spied on a gadfly and got caught. It was the ’60s, and it changed the auto industry forever....
Season 4 – Episode 6: No-No Boy and the Japanese-American Migration to Detroit
Barely two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order #9066. Some 120,000 Japanese...
Season 5 Finale- The Development of PCP and Ketamine
Ketamine has found wide uses since the 1960s: as a painkiller, an anesthetic, a street drug consumed at raves,...