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Eyewitness History · 201 episodes with transcripts

What was it like to hear about the JFK assassination? Or America’s triumph over Hitler? Or seeing Queen at Live-Aid? Our past is a collection of stories that bring us to now.

Spoken has transcripts of 201 Eyewitness History episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 20, 2026.

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One Year Later- What Publishing a Book Taught Me

October 20, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

What was it like to hear about the JFK assassination? Or America's triumph over Hitler? We're seeing Queen at Live Aid. Our past is a collection of stories that bring us to now.

Welcome to the Eyewitness History Podcast, where we view history through the eyes of the people that watch the events that shaped our world. Here's your host, Josh Cohen, and these are their stories.

Josh Cohen (0:32)

Hello, listeners, and thank you for tuning in to the Eyewitness History Podcast. I wanted to check in with you, listeners. Exactly one year ago today, I realized my dream of publishing a book. As perhaps you will know, it's called William F. Buckley Jr's Guide to Friendship in a Polarized Era. I released an episode…

In it, you can hear me talk about William F. Buckley Jr. and the book that I was working on, which would become the book that got published. I asked him if he had any advice for me in terms of becoming a better writer, thinking through the process and what lessons I might be able to engulf to become better in…

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