We’ve compiled portions of conversations recorded in 2007 and 2023 by the StoryCorps national oral history project. This half-hour special is a family-friendly mix of accounts about memories, joyful moments, good humor and resilience. Many thanks to the StoryCorps team and to these participants...TOP ROW: Mary Angelique Guillory, Janell and Ruby Sharlow with Felicia Brown, Dickie Landry and Benjamin Hickey, and Donald and Michelle Fontenot. BOTTOM ROW: Mike Hannissee and Megan Brown Constantin, Aglaia Ventors and Patrice Melnick and Goldman Thibodeaux and Paul Scott.
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Gerald Herbert/AP/APNew Orleans pedicab driver Tyler Burt had just dropped off his last fare of the night near Bourbon and Canal streets in the early hours of New Year's Day when disaster struck. -
Halle Parker/WWNOOfficials reopened Bourbon Street Thursday afternoon, just a day after the New Year’s Day truck attack that left 14 people dead and dozens more injured. -
Matthew Hinton/AP/FR170690 APThe suspect in the New Year’s Day truck attack on Bourbon Street acted as a lone wolf when he slammed his vehicle into a crowd, killing 14 and injuring dozens of others, the FBI said Thursday. -
Matthew Hinton/AP/FR170690 APAn 18-year-old girl dreaming of becoming a nurse, a single mother, a father of two and a football star suffered fatal injuries when the driver of a white pickup truck sped onto Bourbon Street, packed with holiday revelers.
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FBIOfficials are still trying to identify the person who placed bombs outside of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee offices in 2021. Now they have fresh details. -
Laszlo Balogh/APKeleti, who was also a Holocaust survivor, was hospitalized in critical condition with pneumonia on Dec. 25. She died Thursday morning in Budapest, the Hungarian state news agency reported.
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Ukrainian forces are fighting to hold on to the key city of Pokrovsk, in one of the fiercest battles in eastern Ukraine, but commanders admit the Russians have more troops and firepower.
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