Snap Judgment

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• Cop Out / Snap Judgment, "Unforgiven" - Snap #612, segment 3. (20 min)
  Ex-Cop Robert Davis had two choices; show up to court and serve a sentence that meant certain death. Or find a way out. Producer: Anna Sussman, Sound Design: Renzo Gorrio. Find out about Robert Davis’s work here. www.authorsden.com/robertdavis. Full episode is at http://snapjudgment.org/unforgiven
• Counted: An Oakland Story - Snap #909
  A yearlong look at the people lost to Oakland’s violence. During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers, together with Oakland activists and parents, learned about Oakland’s homicide victims, their families and communities. Visit OaklandStory.org for more interviews, photos, and illustrations.
• The Inventor and The Thief / Snap Judgment #810, "Legacy" (26 min)
  Snap Judgment, April 18, 2017 When a brilliant inventor was robbed of his life’s work, his son did the the only reasonable thing: he became a robber. Walter is currently producing a film called The Unknowns: Talent is Colorblind. The film tells the incredible true story of “The Highway,” a group of self-taught African-American painters living in the Jim Crow South who -- when no one was looking -- invented a whole new style of art. You can learn more about the film -- and about the Highwaymen -- by visiting its website. www.theunknownsmovietalentiscolorblind.com/ To learn more about the life of Walter Shaw Sr. and his inventions, be sure to check out Walter Jr.’s memoir, License To Steal, and the documentary Genius On Hold. Producer: Joe Rosenberg Sound Design and Score: Leon Morimoto
• The Iron Curtain - Snap #915
  At the height of the Cold War, Ulrike Poppe just might have been the most surveilled woman in the world. But it was only after the wall fell that things got really interesting. Check out Luisa Beck’s reporting on all things Germany at The Washington Post as well as the work of reporter Andrew Curry, whose article in Wired first got us interested in Ulrike’s story.. And if you’re interested in Stasi Records Agency, can you visit their English-language website to learn more (links are on the Snap Judgment webpage). Producer: Luisa Beck (with Production Help From Joe Rosenberg); original score: Renzo Gorrio Mike Ramsdell was a covert operative for the federal government. He was assigned to capture and extract a high level target from Russia, but the mission went horribly wrong. Check out the fictionalized account of the story at potevka.com and you can personally contact Mike at michaelramsdell.com. Producer: Anna Sussman; Sound Design: Renzo Gorrio
• The Klan - Snap #809 (47 min)
  Snap Judgment, hosted by Glynn Washington On the next Snap..."The Klan." The word instills fear in many, fascination in some, and allegiance in others, and on the next Snap Judgment we're going face to face. Episodes at http://snapjudgment.org/node/52767: Black Man Down, Silver Dollar Lounge, Pen Pals, Rabbi And The KKK
• The Real Black Klansman (14 min)
  Snap Judgment, https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/snapjudgment, March 6, 2020
  A black detective in Colorado Springs infiltrates the KKK and finds himself face-to-face with David Duke, the Grand Wizard.
  Thank you, Detective Ron Stallworth for sharing your epic story with Snap. You can read more about Ron's story in his book, Black Klansman: A Memoir.
  Produced and scored by Davey Kim
  
• The Silver Dollar Lounge (22 min)
  Snap Judgment, March 6, 2020
  Daryl Davis is a boogie-woogie pianist who's played with Bill Clinton, Bruce Hornsby and Chuck Berry. But we wanted to talk to him about another group of his friends...
  Big thanks to Daryl Davis. Check out Daryl's book about his experiences called "Klandestine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Klu Klux Klan".
  Produced by Nick van der Kolk, original score by Leon Morimoto
  
• Tin Man - Snap #617
  Snap Judgment, October 7, 2016. If I only had a heart The sum of the parts cannot equal the hole in your heart. Producer: Pat Mesiti-Miller Neuroanatomist Dr. James Fallon studies the most dangerous kind of person: the psychopath. His job is to get up close and personal with the mind of the psychopath so that we can better understand what makes them tick. He treats their brains with the cold calculation of a scientist at work. But in the process things get mighty personal. The Scientist And The Psychopath James Fallon, PhD is a neuroanatomist and geneticist at UC-Irvine. For more about his work and his own life, check out his book here: The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain: James Fallon. Producer: Julia DeWitt Sound Design: Leon Morimoto See also http://www.npr.org/2015/07/10/421625310/the-scientist-and-the-psychopath About Face You’ve heard the saying, right? You can’t see the forest for the trees. Well, imagine if your whole life all you could do, all you knew how to do, was see the trees, the details, the minutiae of the world. What would you miss out on. Let’s take a walk in Tom Conces’ shoes and find out. Producer: Nancy López Original score: Renzo Gorrio Chin-Kyll and Bo-Ok: Across the DMZ What happens when you are reunited with your North Korean sister for the first time in over five decades? This story comes to Snap Judgment by way of Mary Kim. Voice Actors: Yongnam and Mikyung Kim Producer and Sound Design: Davey Kim