WYSO Weekend: September 28, 2014

By Jerry Kenney

Published September 29, 2014 at 12:22 PM EDT

On Point’s host, Tom Ashbrook, is an award-winning journalist brought to public radio following the attacks of September 11, 2001.

After a grand jury’s decision in Greene County this past week, federal investigators announced they’ll review the case of John Crawford III who was killed by police inside a Walmart store in Beavercreek on August 5th. US Attorney Carter Stewart will take part in that investigation. I spoke with him by phone following the announcement.
Last weekend Antioch College students and residents of the Miami Valley piled onto buses for a whirlwind trip to the People's Climate March in New York City. Organizers had estimated a hundred thousand people would come; the count afterwards topped three hundred thousand. Antioch College sophomore Austin Rinebolt-Miller was one of the students on the bus. In a conversation with WYSO's Lewis Wallace, he described the variety he saw as he wandered through the different sections of the march.
The winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prizefor fiction and non-fiction were announced last week. Today we speak with Sharon Rab – executive director of the awards organization. *All the winners will be honored at a ceremony hosted by award-winning journalist Nick Clooney in Dayton on Sunday, November 9th.
Puppetry is an ancient art form and here in the Dayton region, a contemporary theater group – known as the Zoot Theatre Company– is keeping the art form alive. Community Voices producer, Mojgan Samardar, spent time with the company members this spring as they prepared their version of George Orwell’s classic story: Animal Farm.
The most famous photograph in the world captures the moment manned flight began in 1903. Orville Wright is flying the plane, his brother Wilbur stands expectantly off to the side. It’s a windy day – and the plane is just lifting off the sand at Kitty Hawk. Aviation commentator and photographer Dan Patterson says that one detail from that picture shaped what aviators came to LOOK like.
On Monday WYSO listeners will notice some programming changes. One of those changes include the installment of the live call in program On Point from 10am to noon. To tell us more about the program, I spoke to host Tom Ashbrook, earlier this week. *And Excursions fans can still get their three hour fix of great mid-day music with Niki Dakota from noon to 3, just before Fresh Air. The new program schedule is available on our website at WYSO.org