RTIR Magazine

View Article  Coping with Memories of War, Poverty, and Loss
Wars, earthquakes, floods. The latest news features images that horrify: devastated city scenes showing children wandering amid the chaos of ...   more »
View Article  Could Germ Warfare and Medical Experimentation Happen Again to American Soldiers?
The Japanese experimented with pathogens— dysentery, typhoid, cholera and other poisons— on American soldiers in World War II. Could history ...   more »
View Article  George Washington Was NOT America’s First President
Your listeners will be surprised to know:
• Our nation’s “birth” didn’t happen on July 4. Other dates are also ...   more »
View Article  How Far Would You Go to Honor Your Mother?

Would you make sure that her life story is preserved for eternity? Would you share that story with anyone who ...   more »

View Article  101 Things You Never Knew about George Washington Carver
Mention George Washington Carver, and we think of a great American whose brilliant scientific achievements changed our way of life. ...   more »
View Article  How American Indians Helped Runaway Slaves Fight for Freedom
In school, we all learned about slavery in America and the courageous struggle slaves endured to win their freedom. But ...   more »
View Article  Remember When America Was the Land of Opportunity?

Though staggering unemployment and the vilification of illegal aliens are modern hallmarks, America was once considered a melting pot of ...   more »

View Article  Interview a Man Who Was Among the First to Explore the Arctic

Dean Hadley has lived a life peppered with adventure, and close calls. He was on the first ship to navigate ...   more »

View Article  Expert Reveals Badasses of History

Author Ben Thompson takes your audience inside the fist-banging, gun-slinging, war-mongering and blood-thirsty world of some of the meanest SOBs ...   more »

View Article  Purple Heart Recipient Tells Stories of Life in the Trenches in WW II
Sixty-eight years ago this month, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor moved the U.S. to formally entering WWII. Former Artillery Soldier...   more »
View Article  Why Holocaust Ignorance is Becoming Increasingly Dangerous
When she was deported to Auschwitz, Yocheved Artzi’s mother had to face death squarely in the eye. Almost 65 ...   more »
View Article  Interview One of the Few Remaining OSS WWII Spies
During WWII spies routinely put their lives in danger to help the U.S. Army gather intelligence and win the war. ...   more »
View Article  What Really Happened the Week of JFK's Assasination

November 23rd marks the 46th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination and many conspiracy theorists claim we still don’t know ...   more »

View Article  'Tatooed Ladies': Circus Sideshow or Courageous Women?

Today, even soccer moms have them, but it wasn’t that long ago when women with tattoos had their virtue questioned ...   more »

View Article  Inspirational World War II Stories

During World War II, ordinary Polish citizens hazarded imprisonment and death to shelter friends, neighbors, and strangers from the Nazis. ...   more »

View Article  Were Any of the Titanics Dead Reincarnated?

The American public is fascinated by tales of the occult. For proof, one need look no further than the success ...   more »

View Article  How Romanians Went from Communism to Democratic Success Story
Twenty years ago, Americans glued to their televisions witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of a ...   more »
View Article  25 Fascinating Facts about Thanksgiving
Did you know that:
• The first documented Thanksgiving actually took place near El Paso, Texas — 23 years before ...   more »
View Article  How One Courageous Woman Helped Re-Write History

The Watergate scandal of the early 1970s has become so engrained in the American psyche that it is difficult to ...   more »

View Article  How Did He Survive Stalag 17-B?

Inside Germany’s Infamous WWII POW Camp

Stalag 17-B, Krems, Austria, 1944.  Among the POWs is 24-year-old Armand DiSchiavi, a ...   more »

View Article  Give Your Audience the Ultimate Presidential Trivia Quiz
There are so many fun and interesting facts about U.S. presidents that many of us don’t know — but Jane ...   more »
View Article  What Was America Like Before Columbus?

This Guest Debunks the Myths We Believe

We all know that Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492, ...   more »

View Article  Interview On of the Last Survivors of the Nazi Genocide

Lydia Rychner-Reich has a story to share which, today, can only be told first-hand by a few other people in ...   more »

View Article  Interview a Real-Life Forrest Gump!

Ray S. Skop’s colorful life began the day he was born when Ku Klux Klan members burned a cross on ...   more »

View Article  Give Your Audience a Civil War Quiz

The North won. Right? Well, some people say that the Civil War is still being fought in some states. Think ...   more »

View Article  Do a Show on Great But Forgotten American Hereos

Have you ever heard of Paul Winchell? A renowned ventriloquist and children’s entertainer whose popularity peaked during television’s early days, ...   more »

View Article  How Much do Listeners Know About the U.S. Constitution?

The U.S. Constitution embodies Western Civilization’s concept of “equality” — Do other civilizations? What’s the difference between “Concentrated Power” and ...   more »

View Article  Meet a Real Life Spy

It’s the stuff spy movies are made of. Parachuting out of planes, avoiding capture and learning to crack safes, all ...   more »

View Article  What Was Life Like Aboard a WWII Battleship?
Retired Lieutenant Commander L. Peter Wren will transport your audience back to a time when battleships were
one of America’s ...   more »
View Article  Author Presents Prophetic Ideas on Global Politics and the Economy
The Voracious is a mysterious symbolic group of seven people, originating from strong-world market economies, who govern most of the ...   more »
View Article  Interview One of the Holocaust’s Youngest Survivors
Few of us can imagine relentless persecution by a group as despicable as the Nazis, but Andre Nirenberger knows
the ...   more »
View Article  Salute To America
Dr. Doris McCoy is an American original. While most of us plan to celebrate July 4th waving flags and watching...   more »
View Article  Do a Show on the 65th Anniversary of D-Day
Books, movies and documentaries have chronicled the Invasion of Normandy, but few World War II veterans
can share their memories ...   more »
View Article  True Stories From World War II Soldiers

D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion of all time,

with 160,000 troops bravely serving in that perilous mission.

Casualties were ...   more »

View Article  It’s Time Blacks Stopped Viewing Whites as Superior; Why Racism Has NOTHING to Do with Race

Despite seeing the first African American hold the highest office in the United States and many other people of color ...   more »

View Article  As a Boy He was Nearly Sent to Auschwitz; Learn How Brigitte Bardot’s Hair Stylist Escaped from the Nazis

Few of us can imagine relentless persecution by a group as despicable as the Nazis, but Andre Nirenberger knows the ...   more »

View Article  Interview One of the Few Remaining OSS WWII Spies

During World War II spies routinely put their lives in danger to help the U.S. Army gather intelligence and win ...   more »

View Article  What Really Killed Ernest Hemingway? Expert Sheds New Light on One of America’s Iconic Authors

Ernest Hemingway’s suicide in 1961, shortly after his release from the Mayo clinic, shocked the literary world. Since then, his ...   more »