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
195 episodes
U.S. Govt. Whistleblower Reveals Election Fraud By World's Greatest Criminal Cartel!
U.S. Government whistleblower Martin Rodil breaks down the Venezuelan efforts to steal elections in the U.S. and also explains how that country's Cartel de los Soles–the largest criminal organization in the world–aims their drug trafficking and...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:08:27
Shocking Story of CIA Station Chief Murdered in Greece
Former CIA agent and Boston native Ralph Mariani shares the real-life thriller account of the 1975 murder of his boss, Richard Welch, the then-CIA station chief in Athens, and the twenty-seven-year investigation that was only solved when two gr...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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54:48
American Journalist Kidnapped By The Taliban
Over his career as a journalist, reporting from mainly Afghanistan and Pakistan, Jere Van Dyk has worked for the New York Times and CBS News and has appeared widely as a commentator on international affairs. His also the autho...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:21:52
America CEO Imprisoned in Venezuela
With the country of Venezuela and the criminal behavior of the Maduro regime currently headline news, today’s guest is particularly timely – petroleum executive, kidnapping victim and author Jose Angel Pereira. At first glance, Jose...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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55:31
Unexpected Heroism During LA Wildfire
On the evening of January 7, 2025 several destructive wildfires swept through the Los Angeles area, including the fast-moving Eaton Fire near the neighborhoods of Altadena and Pasadena. Firefighters and three night-flying helicopters with...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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40:37
REPRISE: Breaking Down the Meth and Fentanyl Epidemic
HBH is so proud of this episode--we think this breakdown of an important and ongoing issue bears repeating:Award-winning journalist Sam Quinones lays out the facts behind the meth and fentanyl drug crisis in the U.S.:He expertly ...
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Season 4
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Episode 56
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1:18:21
REPRISE: U.S. Army Scout Donald D. Fida's Incredible WWII Pacific Survival Story
In 1944, Sgt. Donald D. Fida was tortured and gutted by Japanese solders and left to die in the Philippine jungle, when his childhood friend miraculously came upon him and saved his life. Because of this experience, Donald survived and co...
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Season 4
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Episode 55
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1:11:35
Growing Up Homeless To Navy SEAL To Cancer Survivor: Part Two
Part two of Dash's awesome interview: Former Navy SEAL Dash Dong Wong’s journey from growing up as a street urchin in Hawaii to becoming a Navy special operations operator is a powerful testament to resilience and inner strength. Sa...
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Season 4
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Episode 54
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50:11
Growing Up Homeless To Navy SEAL To Cancer Survivor
Former Navy SEAL Dash Dong Wong’s journey from growing up as a street urchin in Hawaii to becoming a Navy special operations operator is a powerful testament to resilience and inner strength. Says Dash, “I grew up in paradise, but was raised in...
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Season 4
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Episode 53
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1:06:39
The Most Audacious Art Thief Ever!
Art theft expert, security expert and author of “The Rembrandt Heist: The Story of a Criminal Genius, a Stolen Masterpiece, and an Enigmatic Friendship,” Anthony Amore introduces us to Boston native, Miles Connor Jr., a combination roc...
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Season 4
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Episode 52
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43:25
The Women Who Secretly Built the Atomic Bomb
At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee was home to 75,000 residents, who consumed more energy than New York City. Most of the world didn’t know that the town even existed. And most of the people who lived there, who were largely yo...
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Season 4
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Episode 51
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1:01:27
Female Cuban Spy Nabbed By The FBI
Retired FBI agent Pete Lapp helped capture Ana Montez, a Puerto Rican-born American and UVA alumna who was a senior analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency overseeing the Cuban account. For 17 years, she was also a spy for Cuba and was an a...
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Season 4
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Episode 50
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1:02:38
Govt. JFK Assassination Expert Proves Conspiracy! – Part Two
Part Two of this fascinating interview: Douglas Horne is the preeminent JFK assassination expert and a former investigator with the official government JFK Assassination Records Review Board. He’s also the author of the five-volume ...
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Season 4
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Episode 49
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56:32
Govt. JFK Assassination Expert Proves Conspiracy! – Part One
Douglas Horne is the preeminent JFK assassination expert and a former investigator with the official government JFK Assassination Records Review Board. He’s also the author of the five-volume book set titled: Inside the Assassination Record...
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Season 4
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Episode 48
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1:01:04
Youngest WW2 Officer Fights Hitler, Saves Horses And More!
World War II hero Phil Larimore remains the youngest candidate to ever graduate from Army Officer Training School, which he did at the age of seventeen, on the eve of America’s involvement in World War II. Landing on the Anzio beachhead in Febr...
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Season 4
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Episode 47
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1:20:59
Chasing The Zombie Hunter
Phoenix Police Department cold case homicide detective and and former CPA Troy Hillman tells the extraordinary, detailed inside story of how an elite team of detectives—hounded by the press, a frustrated and frightened public, and their own dou...
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Season 4
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Episode 46
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48:00
The Anthrax Crisis And The Urgent Search For A Missing Iraqi Scientist
After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the death of Saddam Hussein, scientists who worked for the regime were killed or left the country. When one of them –microbiologist Thamer Abdul Rahman Imran – learned the new regime wanted to arrest hi...
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Season 4
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Episode 45
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1:08:47
Welcome to The CIA and ‘The Farm’ its Legendary Training Program: Doug Laux Reprise
We are re-airing Doug Laux's second appearance on HBH, as we fondly remember him upon his passing:Being accepted to work at the CIA is highly difficult. The interview process is long and secretive - and applicants and their references ar...
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Season 4
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Episode 44
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1:29:05
MACV-SOG Legend "Dynamite" Is Back! (Part Two of Two)
Henry (Dick) L. Thompson is back to share more adventures from his latest book SOG Code Name Dynamite 2 about his time in Vietnam as part of MACV-SOG.From 1964-1972 America engaged in a Top Secret war in Southeast Asia to suppor...
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Season 4
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Episode 43
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45:06
The CIA Mission to Eliminate the Taliban’s Most Lethal Weapon
In tribute to our friend and past HBH guest, we're re-airing the first of former CIA officer Doug Laux's two appearances during our first season:CIA Officer Doug Laux explains how he developed a network of spies to track down the man res...
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Season 4
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Episode 42
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1:13:48
MACV-SOG Legend "Dynamite" Is Back! (Part One of Two)
Henry (Dick) L. Thompson is back to share more adventures from his latest book SOG Code Name Dynamite 2 about his time in Vietnam as part of MACV-SOG.From 1964-1972 America engaged in a Top Secret war in Southeast Asia to suppor...
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Season 4
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Episode 41
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56:36
Agent Zo: Fearless Female WWII Resistance Fighter
Courageous resistance fighter Elżbieta Zawacka, aka ‘Agent Zo’, was the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi-German occupied Poland during the Second World War. While being hunted by the Gestapo there, who arrested her entire family, sh...
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Season 4
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Episode 40
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47:01
New Jersey Man Walks Around The World
On April 2nd, 2015, after getting a degree and paying off his loans, Tom Turcich stepped out his front door to start a quest that would last for seven years, take him to six continents, and cover twenty-eight thousand miles. At the end of it he...
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Season 4
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Episode 39
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58:47
Female Marine's Gut-Wrenching Account Of Service In Afghanistan
In 2009 Savannah Cannon joined up at nineteen, to escape her hardscrabble circumstances. She was quickly tapped as having an aptitude for math and computers. Once trained, she was promptly deployed to a dangerous desert outpost in Afghanistan, ...
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Season 4
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Episode 38
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59:38
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