Hollister
Hollister is an investigation into what really happened on July 4, 1947, when 2,000 bikers roared into a small California town and left a media explosion in their wake.
2002 / Helen Borten / A Sense of Place, USA
Hollister is an investigation into what really happened on July 4, 1947, when 2,000 bikers roared into a small California town and left a media explosion in their wake.
Hollister aired on public radio stations across the country in 1997.
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Helen Borten has written and produced 44 national radio documentaries. Her NPR documentary The Case Against Women: Sexism in the Courts won the George Foster Peabody Award. And Justice For All, also on NPR, won the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. Her numerous awards include two EMMAS from the National Women's Political Caucus, three Unity Awards, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism honorable mention.