Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: How, after evading 200 federal agents over a five-year, $24 million manhunt, Eric Robert Rudolph was arrested for setting off a bomb that killed one person and injured 112 at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

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Inside Today’s FBI: Centennial Olympic Park Bombing

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explorethe stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’sepisode: How FBI investigators at the Terrorist Explosive DeviceAnalytical Center (TEDAC) examine improvised explosive devices(IEDs) — the weapons of choice for terrorists — to identifybomb-makers by the “signatures” they leave behind. TEDAC’s “bomblibrary” holds more than 100,000 IEDs found in war zones and crimescenes and has identified more than 1,000 people with potentialterrorist ties.

Inside Today’s FBI: Improvised Explosive Devices

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: How the FBI infiltrated and shut down Ross (“Dread Pirate Roberts”) Ulbricht’s Silk Road website, a $1.2 billion market that sold illegal drugs and guns in the Internet’s hidden “darknet.”

Inside Today’s FBI: Shutting Down Silk Road

Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini was on the scene when a suicide bombing in Kabul killed more than 70 people in 2011. Hossaini’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the attack’s aftermath showed a 12-year-old girl, bloodied and screaming, among the survivors and the dead.

Pulitzer Prize Photography: Suicide Bombing

Photographer Mary Chind discusses the harrowing moments when she captured scenes of a daring rescue from a rushing river for the Des Moines Register in 2009. Chind won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography the following year.

Pulitzer Prize Photography: River Rescue in Downtown Des Moines

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: How Boston Globe reporter Michael Rezendes went from marathon runner to breaking news reporter in the blink of an eye, and how the FBI tracked the perpetrators of the 2013 bombing.

Inside Today’s FBI: Boston Marathon Bombing

Oded Bality, the only Israeli photographer to ever receive the Pulitzer, discusses his prize-winning photograph of a lone young Jewish woman defying Israeli officers attempting to clear illegal settlements in the West Bank.

Pulitzer Prize Photography: Defending the Barricade

Todd Heisler spent a year photographing the funerals of Colorado Marines who died in Iraq and the officer whose job it was to notify families of each Marine’s death. The haunting series won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

Pulitzer Prize Photography: Final Salute

Deanne Fitzmaurice captured the emotional and physical journey of a severely injured Iraqi boy who was nearly killed by an explosion, but who was eventually saved by American doctors after traveling to California. Her photos earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 2005.

Pulitzer Prize Photography: Operation Lion Heart

Host Sonya Gavankar and Newseum curator Carrie Christoffersen explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: the D.C. snipers who terrorized the greater Washington, D.C., area in 2002, the Bushmaster assault rifle they used to carry out their deadly attacks, and the tarot card they left near one of the shootings in an attempt to communicate with authorities.

Inside Today’s FBI: D.C. Snipers

Host Sonya Gavankar and Patty Rhule, director of exhibit development, explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: how the 9/11 attacks transformed the FBI into a counterterrorism agency and the car that transported the American Airlines Flight 77 hijackers from San Diego to Dulles Airport in Virginia.

Inside Today’s FBI: 9/11

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: how toy dinosaurs, rigged with hidden cameras, helped keep watch over a tense six-day long hostage situation in Alabama in 2013.

Inside Today’s FBI: Surveillance Dinosaurs

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Eyewitness News format, which was pioneered by Al Primo in Philadelphia, Pa. In this special episode of the Newseum Podcast, Primo talks about the evolution of broadcast journalism with former TV reporter and Newseum producer, Frank Bond.

Eyewitness News with Al Primo

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: The Nissan Pathfinder that nearly became a weapon of mass destruction in New York’s Times Square in 2010. The components of the homemade bomb are on display inside the vehicle in the exhibit.

Inside Today’s FBI: Times Square Car Bomb

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: The hat that “Most Wanted” crime boss Whitey Bulger was wearing when the FBI arrested him after a 16-year manhunt, and how new media helped the bureau track him down.

Inside Today’s FBI: Whitey Bulger

Hosts Frank Bond and Sonya Gavankar take listeners behind the scenes of some of the Newseum's most popular artifacts and exhibits and share details about the production of many of the museum's award-winning films.

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