Heroes Behind Headlines
Heroes Behind the Headlines: a new podcast featuring an explosive new story every episode. First-hand accounts of adventures and events which have shaped our world . The real stories behind the headlines you know, told by the heroes you don’t. Hosted by NYT and international bestselling author Ralph Pezzullo.
Episodes
171 episodes
Truman vs. MacArthur: The Media Battle Behind The Korean War
Oxford Professor in International History Steve Casey lays out the fascinating media history of the Korean War. He explains how the Truman administration promoted their case for participating in the Korean conflict to a nation fatigued fr...
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Season 4
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Episode 37
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1:20:37
Helo Pilot Roger Lockshier At The Height Of The War In Vietnam (PART TWO)
Part two of this terrific interview:One of HBH’s favorite guests is back, sharing more stories from his time on a Huey gunship helicopter as a Crew Chief and Door Gunner. As part of the 101st Airborne and a Black Angel, Roger Lockshier a...
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Season 4
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Episode 36
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53:30
Helo Pilot Roger Lockshier At The Height Of The War In Vietnam
One of HBH’s favorite guests is back, sharing more stories from his time on a Huey gunship helicopter as a Crew Chief and Door Gunner. As part of the 101st Airborne and a Black Angel, Roger Lockshier and his crew were routinely tasked with extr...
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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53:13
Medal of Honor Winner Describes Founding of Special Forces
A living national treasure, Col. Paris Davis was one of the first sixteen U.S. Marine officers–and the only African-American–recruited to help form the Special Forces division–the inspired brainchild of JFK, who himself had seen the limits of m...
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Season 4
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Episode 34
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1:21:01
Oswald’s Girlfriend & Cancer Research Prodigy in the Summer of ’63
Judyth Vary Baker was a teenage science prodigy who caught the attention of the top cancer researchers in the country, including Dr. Alton Ochsner – past president of the American Cancer Society and head of the prestigious Ochsner Clinic in New...
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Season 4
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Episode 33
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1:31:41
Journalist & Sex Trafficking Expert Explains The Epstein Scandal
Investigative journalist and author Nick Bryant broke the story of high-level sex trafficking networks operating in the U.S. with his groundbreaking book "The Franklin Scandal" about a pederast ring based in Nebraska. Nick was one of t...
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Season 4
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Episode 32
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48:56
22-Year-Old U.S. Army Nurse At The Height Of The Vietnam War
Laura Kern volunteered to join the U.S. Army's nurse corps in May 1968 at the height of the conflict in Vietnam. 22 years old, she remembers her first day in Vietnam as her most pivotal: "I just jumped off the helicopter with my bags looking fo...
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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1:17:55
Preempting Terrorism At The CIA
The ultimate insider in the world of espionage: 24-year CIA veteran Ric Prado has spent his life at the heart of the intelligence world as an Operations Officer through the end of the Cold War and the advent of the Age of Terrorism. After servi...
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Season 4
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Episode 30
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51:58
Museum Art Heists, China, and Fentanyl
Host Ralph Pezzullo is the guest this week—talking about his new book, “The Great Chinese Art Heist,” (Pegasus Crime.) Interviewed by renowned art theft expert Anthony Amore, Ralph breaks down the series of ‘pink-panther-like’ museum r...
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Season 4
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Episode 29
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53:08
CEO Invited To Iran And Imprisoned In Iran’s Notorious Evin Prison
When the Vice-President of Iran invited Nizar Zakka to speak at a September 2015 conference – as CEO of a global tech NGO working closely with the U.S. government – he never hesitated, and promptly booked a flight from D.C. ...
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Season 4
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Episode 28
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1:00:02
Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis – Making The Ultimate Sacrifice
Author Tom Sileo tells the inspiring story of the late Michael Ollis, one of thousands of young men who followed their fathers into the military. On August 28, 2013, Ollis, Staten Island native and 10th mountain soldier, was serving at Forward ...
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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1:01:59
Founding Member of Delta Force & Operation Eagle Claw
Born in Hawaii shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Wade Ishimoto grew up to help found the storied Delta Force special operations group. Wade shares the story of his amazing career in U.S. Army intelligence starting in Vietnam, to the pla...
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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1:00:37
Oswald, Monkey Viruses, and The Plot To Kill Castro
When New Orleans native Ed Haslam began his research into the curious life and shocking murder of brilliant Tulane medical professor Dr. Mary Sherman, he didn’t imagine that his inquiry would reveal a secret lab connected to some of the city’s ...
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Season 4
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Episode 25
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1:04:38
MacArthur's Bloody Butchers
Historian and author Brian Bruce vividly describes an often neglected but important aspect of the Pacific Theater in WWII: The campaign to liberate New Guinea from the Japanese and thwart their planned invasion of Australia. In his ...
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Season 4
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Episode 24
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57:26
The Last Afghan Commander
When the United States retreated from the chaos of Kabul in August of 2021, General Sami Sadat was still fighting until the end. He recounts how his troops were starved for ammunition for two years before the final pullout, while the U.S....
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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1:13:57
Marine Lieutenant Fights Chaos In The Vietnamese Jungle
Commissioned a Marine second lieutenant on November 8, 1967, G.M. Davis arrived in Vietnam less than a year later to lead a rifle platoon against the North Vietnamese Army in the northernmost province of what was then the Republic of Vietnam. I...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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1:13:49
WW2 Radioman And Veteran Of D-Day!
Robert F McLean was just 19 years old when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy to do his part in WWII. Invited to join the Navy Seals, he declined and enrolled in the U.S.N. Patrol Torpedo Boat School in Melville, R.I. Upon graduation Bob ...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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1:42:12
Berkeley to Berlin: How The Rad Lab Helped Avert Nuclear War
The success of the submarine-borne Polaris missile was a critical nuclear deterrent that helped President Kennedy stare down Khruschev during the 1961 Berlin Crisis. Ever since, this weapon has been a key strategic tool of the U.S. Tom Ramos's ...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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57:09
USAF Combat Controller & Medal Of Honor Winner
Former U.S. Air Force Combat Controller Dan Schilling relates the heroic story of John Chapman captured in his book "Alone at Dawn" – a fellow combat controller who fought and perished on an Afghan mountainside, and was posthumou...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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1:03:06
Leading Financial Crimes Expert Discusses China
A financial investigator for Federal law enforcement, David Asher is an expert in the financial side of organized criminal activities. He has been working for decades 'finding the money' to help build cases against some of the most notorious cr...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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1:25:51
UK Journalist Covers War In Ukraine
Shetland, Scotland native and independent journalist Jen Stout was in Russia in late February 2022 when the war with Ukraine broke out and quickly left for a border post in southern Romania to cover the great flood of refugees who were fleeing ...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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1:12:08
UK Combat Medic's Report From Gaza 2024
Former SAS medical officer and current war surgeon, Richard Villar, volunteered to provide medical support in Gaza during the 2024 invasion following the October 7 Hamas attack. He found himself working in a 200-bed hospital overrun with 700 pa...
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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1:16:39
The Facts About Tren De Aragua With Gary Berntsen
Past guest and highly decorated former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen is back and he's breaking down the facts about Tren De Aragua--the notorious gang of trained criminals at the heart of the illegal immigrant debate.Gary explains...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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39:04
In Dealey Plaza: Witness To JFK Assassination Speaks!
CIA contract pilot William "Tosh" Plumlee is back—this time with his eyewitness account from the South Knoll of Dealey Plaza, in Dallas on November 22rd, 1963. Present as part of a Pentagon abort team, Tosh counted five shots, coming from at le...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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1:15:50
Getting To Know The "Son of Sam"
Doctor of behavioral science and pastor Michael Caparrelli spent 100 hours with convicted serial killer David Berkowitz in an effort to better understand the reasons he committed the notorious Son of Sam murders, which terrorized New York City ...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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1:14:31