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S7E6 Episode 6: The Survivor
It’s been 56 years since the Greenwich Village townhouse exploded. Three people died. The rest vanished. The only one left alive to tell the story is Cathy Wilkerson, now 81—still wrestling with what…
Episode 5: The Prisoner
Kathy Boudin is the fourth member of the Weatherman. After running from the flames of the townhouse, she goes into hiding for over a decade. That’s until one day, when she resurfaces in a way that…
Episode 4: The Explosion
It’s March 6, 1970. A townhouse suddenly explodes in New York City’s Greenwich Village, killing three of the five people inside. Two escape. Police think it’s a gas explosion at first…until they find…
Episode 3: The Comrade
Ted Gold is one of the five people in the townhouse when the bomb explodes. He's a student at Columbia University. And a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War. But before all that, he's just a witty,…
Episode 2: The Teacher
Diana Oughton was a straight-A student from a wealthy Republican family, a teacher who seemed destined for a conventional life. But over a decade marked by war, campus activism, and radical politics,…
Episode 1: The Bombmaker
Terry Robbins is a charismatic, intelligent young man who becomes a leader of the student movement to protest the Vietnam War. But when peaceful protest is not making the progress he hoped for, he's…
Giuliani: The Unraveling – Episode 6: Rudy Gone Wild
Newly crowned as America's Mayor, Giuliani looks set to cash in on his newfound popularity. He shoots for the White House and misses. After disappearing from the spotlight, he decides to make a…
S6E5 Giuliani: The Unraveling – Episode 5: King Rudolph
Rudy Giuliani begins his second term as New York City’s mayor riding high — a crime-fighting icon fresh off a re-election win. But as the years unfold, controversies mount, political ambitions clash…
S6E4 Giuliani: The Unraveling – Episode 4: Credit
In 1993, Giuliani wins the mayoral election in NYC. He runs on the promise to curb one of the biggest issues for New Yorkers: crime. And, when he wins, he hires a police commissioner who flies too…
S6E3 Giuliani: The Unraveling – Episode 3: The GODFather
In June 1983, Rudy Giuliani moves back to New York City. He takes a job as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and sets his sights on going after organized crime. He’ll use his time…
S6 Giuliani: The Unraveling – Episode 2: Ambition is a Beast
Why did a young Rudy Giuliani have tea with Haiti's dictator in 1982? To answer that question, we’ll have to go back to 1968 when a 24 year-old Giuliani was just graduating from law school. He was a…
S6E1 Giuliani: The Unraveling – Episode 1: The Fight
Every New Yorker knows Rudy Giuliani. He was America's mayor, one of the heroes of 9/11. He was President Donald Trump's lawyer. He denied the 2020 election. Giuliani has been a big name in New York…
S6 Giuliani: The Unraveling – trailer
This season on Shoe Leather, a look into the life and career of Rudy Giuliani – one of the most influential politicians in New York City’s recent history.
S5 BOLI
Amadou Diallo’s name became synonymous with “41 shots”. He was killed in 1999 by four NYPD officers, who fired at him 41 times inside the doorway of his Bronx apartment building. The incident etched…
S5 The Fall Guy
Police said they approached Amadou Diallo because they suspected he was a serial rapist who had been terrorizing the Bronx and Harlem for six years. A judge later blamed the real rapist, Isaac Jones,…
S5 This Is A Fuckin’ Business
In 1999, when Yasiin Bey (then-known as Mos Def) and Talib Kweli hear about the killing of Amadou Diallo, they know they have to respond. A year later, they release Hip Hop for Respect. The EP…
S5 NYPD’s Dirty Little Secret
After Amadou Diallo was killed by four white police officers, Yvette Walton decided to speak out. She used to be the only Black woman patrolling the streets in the Street Crime Unit - the team…
S5 The Mural
Two years after Amadou was killed, a local artist named Hulbert Waldroup was commissioned to create a mural honoring him on the street where he lived in the Bronx. But that’s not the mural you’ll see…
S5 The Verdict
In 1999, four white police officers killed Amadou Diallo and were charged with murder. A year later, a jury found them not guilty. The trial took place in Albany — even though the killing happened in…
S4 Who’s Afraid Of Antonio Pagan?
In the 1980s and 90s, controversial City Councilperson Antonio Pagan was loved and hated by the Lower East Side. And while his political career was short-lived, his complicated legacy lives on. 35…
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