Helen Bamber Good listener
Bamber spent her entire professional life helping victims of torture.
From This is True for 24 August 2014
hero
Selfless humans who chose to risk their own safety or lives to improve the human condition or save others.
John Houbolt NASA engineer
Houbolt insisted NASA’s plan wrong, and risked his career to push an alternative. If he hadn’t, we wouldn’t have succeeded in landing on the moon.
From This is True for 20 April 2014
A. Richard Grossman Burn doctor
Dr. Grossman revolutionized burn care.
From This is True for 16 March 2014
Lee Lorch Mathematician
Met Life was unamused, and got him fired from his new job, too.
From This is True for 2 March 2014
Franklin McCain Lunch counter activist
When McCain was in school, at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, N.C., he and a group of three friends from his dorm would discuss what they thought were important issues. It was 1960, he was 19 years old, and the issue that kept coming up was racism. “The more we talked, the more … Read more
From This is True for 12 January 2014
Mavis Batey Code-breaker
Batey broke the German Italian Enigma machine. Then she broke the German military intelligence code too.
From This is True for 17 November 2013
J. Robinson Risner Fighter pilot
Risner fought in WWII. And Korea. And Vietnam.
From This is True for 27 October 2013
Berthold Beitz Humane person
Israel honored both Beitz and his wife Else as “Righteous Among the Nations”.
From This is True for 4 August 2013
Nadezhda Popova Anti-Nazi pilot
She was shot down multiple times, but wasn’t seriously injured and kept going back.
From This is True for 14 July 2013
Vernon McGarity Brave soldier
He was awarded the Medal of Honor by then-president Harry S. Truman, but what he did after the war was just as important.
From This is True for 26 May 2013