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It Was Said

It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series, returns with a new season to look back on some of the most powerful, impactful, and timeless speeches in history. Written and narrated... Read more

Warning: This podcast is a series podcast

This means episodes are recommended to be heard in order from the very start. Here's the 10 best episodes of the series anyway though!

Ranked #1

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Welcome to It Was Said, with Jon Meacham

Welcome to It Was Said, with Jon Meacham

Welcome to Season One of It Was Said, a documentary podcast series that looks back on 10 of the most powerful, impactful... Read more

11 Aug 2020

4mins

Ranked #2

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MLK Jr., The Last Speech

MLK Jr., The Last Speech

Ep 1: In one of the most tumultuous moments in American history, Martin Luther King Jr. travels to Memphis to address th... Read more

2 Sep 2020

45mins

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RFK, A Eulogy for King

RFK, A Eulogy for King

Ep 2: Robert Kennedy learns of the MLK Jr.’s assassination while in route to a campaign event in inner city Indianapolis... Read more

2 Sep 2020

39mins

Ranked #4

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President Obama's Charleston Sermon

President Obama's Charleston Sermon

Ep 3: Barack Obama goes to Charleston, South Carolina in the wake of a white supremacist’s massacre of innocents at Eman... Read more

9 Sep 2020

44mins

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Ranked #5

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Meghan McCain, and Her Father’s America

Meghan McCain, and Her Father’s America

Ep 4: Meghan McCain delivers a provocative eulogy for her father, the war hero and senator, John McCain, at Washington N... Read more

16 Sep 2020

39mins

Ranked #6

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Ronald Reagan’s Farewell Address

Ronald Reagan’s Farewell Address

Ep 5: Ronald Reagan brings his long American odyssey to a close in his presidential farewell address, an evocation of Am... Read more

23 Sep 2020

47mins

Ranked #7

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Edward R. Murrow Fights for Free Press

Edward R. Murrow Fights for Free Press

Ep 6: A demagogic politician, exaggerated claims, an insatiable thirst for attention and controversy, and a national cli... Read more

30 Sep 2020

47mins

Ranked #8

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Barbara Jordan, Your Keynote Speaker

Barbara Jordan, Your Keynote Speaker

Ep 7: A daughter of the segregated south, Barbara Jordan, keynotes the Democratic National Convention of 1976. It was Am... Read more

7 Oct 2020

33mins

Ranked #9

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Hillary Clinton, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights

Hillary Clinton, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights

Ep 8: In the tradition of Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Beijing to argue that women’s rights are ... Read more

14 Oct 2020

29mins

Ranked #10

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John Lewis, We Want Our Freedom Now

John Lewis, We Want Our Freedom Now

Ep 9: A twenty three year old John Lewis, speaking at the March On Washington, calls a nation to moral account. He didn’... Read more

21 Oct 2020

41mins

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