Heroes Behind Headlines
Heroes Behind the Headlines: a new podcast featuring an explosive new story every episode. First-hand accounts of adventures and events which have shaped our world . The real stories behind the headlines you know, told by the heroes you don’t. Hosted by NYT and international bestselling author Ralph Pezzullo.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 65 minutes
- Episodes
- 172
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
JFK Secret Service Agent Speaks
When he joined the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, Jerry Blaine thought that that his service in the underwater demolition teams (UDTs) would be his life's biggest adventure. Instead, he returned st…
WWII Japanese Spy In The Heart Of Hollywood
Frederick Rutland was nothing short of a navy hero in the UK following WWI, but his own charisma, quirks, and opportunism led him to Hollywood to spy for Japan in the years leading to Pearl Harbor, p…
SAS Rescue of the Iranian Embassy in London On Live TV!
A Fan-Favorite Reprise Episode From Season One:
Prior to May 5, 1980, the world was largely unaware that the UK’s SAS (Special Air Service), or any elite special operations units, existed at all. Six…
The $3T Cartel You Never Heard Of
Run by the Venezuelan regime and military, the Cartel del Sol is currently the largest transnational criminal organization in the world, earning trillions of dollars per year from drug and human traf…
Vietnam POW Tells His Inspiring Story (Part Two)
Shot down October 1965, Lt. Commander and naval aviator Porter Halyburton, who was part of Fighter Squadron 84, was helped by local villagers and then taken into custody by the North Vietnamese Army.…
Vietnam POW Tells His Inspiring Story (Part One)
Shot down October 1965, Lt. Commander and naval aviator Porter Halyburton, who was part of Fighter Squadron 84, was helped by local villagers and then taken into custody by the North Vietnamese Army.…
From The Brown Water Navy In Vietnam To High Command: Admiral Bill Retz
While patrolling the waterways in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta as Operations Officer, Bill Retz nearly lost his life. Doctors advised him that his navy career was over yet—defying the odds after a difficul…
SOG Legend "Tilt" Meyer Is Back! (Part Two)
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SOG Legend John Stryker "Tilt" Meyer Is Back! (Part One)
Special Forces legend "Tilt" Meyer is back in a special two-part episode, sharing stories from his new book “On The Ground!”
If you joined MACV-SOG–-the Studies and Observations Group—in the 1960s for…
Part Two: CIA Whistleblower Reveals The Foreign Attack On Our Elections
Retired CIA Operative and government whistleblower Gary Berntsen continues to share insights and details from the results of a four-year investigation into election tampering.
His team’s conclusion: …
Breaking Story: CIA Whistleblower Reveals The Foreign Attack On Our Elections
Retired CIA Operative and government whistleblower Gary Berntsen reveals the results of a four-year investigation into election tampering. His team’s conclusion: Enemies of the United States includin…
War Has Infinite Victims: An Unbelievable Human Trafficking Survival Story
An Inspiring Reprise Episode From Season One:
Human trafficking is a $150 billion-a-year business that thrives in war zones and is arguably more lucrative than arms sales. Lurata Lyon joins HBH and br…
Tragedy At Abbey Gate
Mikael Cook served as a U.S. Army engineer in the reserves. He was sent to Afghanistan in 2019 helping to build out infrastructure for U.S. military camps, working with local translators and other wo…
A Modern Lynching
Former Florida police investigator James Byrd-Williams, Sr. recounts the story of his son's murder in 2020. 44-year-old Michael Williams was an African-American man living in the mostly White college…
Daughter’s Love Solves Mystery Of WWII Hero With Severe PTSD
Becky Ellis was one of her father’s eight children by four wives, and the chaos of her childhood, dominated by a haunted and difficult father, marked her and all her siblings. As a child, she suffere…
U.S. Navy Admiral and Seal Leader Tells His Story
Admiral Robert Stiles Harward, Jr. grew up in a Navy family, living overseas, and eventually joined up himself as a means to pay for college. Adm. Harward ultimately went on to an amazing career and …
9 British SAS v. 400 Communist Rebels: The Epic Battle of Mirbat
Did you miss it? One of the most popular episodes we ever released from Season One is back for an encore listen:
Russian and Chinese-backed rebels were making deadly headway in Oman during its Civil W…
A Winning Filly And Trying To Collect Over $1M From The Cartel
Mark Paul’s outrageous adventure,“The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told," is the hilarious story of two buddies who won't give up on their stroke of luck. While the horse is the real hero of the sto…
Growing Up On The Reservation With A Criminal Father
David Crow had a childhood like no other—with a mentally troubled mother and a criminally sociopathic father who raised his kids on a Navajo reservation, despite not actually being Native-American. D…
Policeman Heals His PTSD Serving Departed Heroes
Bobbie Myers served for years as a Florida policeman, de-stressing from his first responder experiences by living at the beach and surfing. Suddenly, after dramatically saving a drowning boy, his PTS…