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WYSO Weekend: May 31, 2015

WYSO Weekend

In this edition of WYSO Weekend: We’ll learn why one Clark County police officer is out of a job, and we’ll hear how downtown Dayton plans to celebrate gay pride next weekend. We've got Dayton Youth Radio, Veteran’s Voices and more.

  • More military sexual assault cases will be tried at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the next few months. The Dayton Daily News has done some extensive reporting on the issue and found some interesting information on how prevalent these types of cases are. This week we spoke with News reporter, Barrie Barber, to uncover what they’ve found out.
  • Clark County sheriff's deputy Zachary Davis has been fired after admitting to publishing racist tweets. The posts encouraged the use of deadly force against protesters in Baltimore along with racist language to describe African-Americans. WYSO's Wayne Baker discussed the deputy's termination with Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly.
  • Next weekend, (June 5th) downtown Dayton will celebrate gay pride with a series of event spanning three days.  To get the details on those events, I spoke with RJ McKay with the LGBT Center in Dayton. 
  • This week's Dayton Youth Radio feature is from a student at the Dayton Early College Academy, also know as DECA. We'll hear a story from teenager Omari Gaskins about race in America. Here's Youth Radio Project Manager Basim Blunt.
  • On Friday, May 29th, Black Lives Matter protesters will return to the federal courthouse in downtown Dayton to demand justice for John Crawford III. 22-year-old Crawford, who was Black, was shot and killed by a white police officer at the Beavercreek Walmart in August 2014. Crawford was talking on his cell phone and holding a bb gun sold in the store when a shopper called 911 on him. A grand jury found no evidence to arrest After no indictments were made, local protests spread. A die-in at Fairfield Commons mall on Christmas Eve ended in 11 arrests. WYSO community voices producer Steve McQueen has been part of some of the demonstrations. He has the story of that Christmas Eve protest from the perspective of three activists. See photos or learn more about our community voices program at W-Y-S-O dot org.
  • For some who serve in the military, their work is top secret, and the contribution they make to national security may never be publicly known. Today our Veterans Voice series continues with the story of Army veteran John Harshman who, unbeknownst to him, helped crack the code of the German Enigma machines. Those machines were used to encrypt secret messages during World War II. Marine Corps veteran and Wright State student Jeremy Dobbins has the story. For more information on the Dayton Codebreakers visit our website, wyso.org.  
Jerry began volunteering at WYSO in 1991 and hosting Sunday night's Alpha Rhythms in 1992. He joined the YSO staff in 2007 as Morning Edition Host, then All Things Considered. He's hosted Sunday morning's WYSO Weekend since 2008 and produced several radio dramas and specials . In 2009 Jerry received the Best Feature award from Public Radio News Directors Inc., and was named the 2023 winner of the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors Best Anchor/News Host award. His current, heart-felt projects include the occasional series Bulletin Board Diaries, which focuses on local, old-school advertisers and small business owners. He has also returned as the co-host Alpha Rhythms.<br/>