John Waters

John Waters Hitchhiking, Integrating the FDNY

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 21, 2015

John Waters shares his hitchhiking adventures across America. Lou Ureneck on how a Methodist minister and an American Naval officer rescued some 250,000 refugees during the Armenian genocide. Christopher Bollen with his new novel, Orient. Daily News staff writer Ginger Adams Otis discusses the long battle to integrate the FDNY, with lieutenant Michael Marshall and firefighter Regina Wilson from Engine 219.

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