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  • Texas Monthly's Listener Survey is Now Open

    Texas Monthly's Listener Survey is Now Open
    Dec 11 2025
    The Texas Monthly audio team has a new listener survey out — we want learn what you like best, and what you want more of. Your feedback will help guide our next steps here in the studio.

    The survey takes about four minutes, and we'd appreciate you sharing your thoughts. Check it out here: http://txmnth.ly/3XzbIFb

    Thanks for listening!
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Support Texas Monthly in the Signal Awards' Listener's Choice Awards

    Support Texas Monthly in the Signal Awards' Listener's Choice Awards
    Oct 1 2025
    We're honored that "The Final Flight of Captain Forrester" is a finalist in two categories of this year's Signal Awards. You can help the show get recognized — and help the story to reach more listeners — by voting for us in the "History" and "Best Original Score/Music" categories. Cast your vote by October 9!

    Vote here:
    • https://tinyurl.com/SignalAwardsForresterHistory
    • https://tinyurl.com/SignalAwardsForresterScore
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    1 min
  • The Final Flight of Captain Forrester | 5. The Final Flight

    The Final Flight of Captain Forrester | 5. The Final Flight
    May 27 2025
    Karoni and her family gather in Arlington to remember Ron Forrester, surrounded by friends and MIA advocates. For many more American families, the search for answers continues.
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    41 mins
  • The Final Flight of Captain Forrester | 4. The Dig

    The Final Flight of Captain Forrester | 4. The Dig
    May 20 2025
    Excavations begin in a rice paddy near the village of An Thủy. But after years of digging, Karoni Forrester wonders whether the government has the right spot.

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    38 mins
  • The Final Flight of Captain Forrester | 3. The Four Horsemen

    The Final Flight of Captain Forrester | 3. The Four Horsemen
    May 13 2025
    A team of investigators takes up the search for Ron Forrester and pieces together new clues about his last mission.

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    52 mins
  • The Final Flight of Captain Forrester | 2. A Daughter's Search

    The Final Flight of Captain Forrester | 2. A Daughter's Search
    May 6 2025
    Karoni Forrester grew up looking for her father. Along the way, she found even more MIA families like hers in need of help.

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    37 mins
  • The Final Flight of Captain Forrester | 1. The Mystery of Tiny 05

    The Final Flight of Captain Forrester | 1. The Mystery of Tiny 05
    Apr 29 2025
    In late 1972, U.S. Marine Captain Ron Forrester disappeared on a bombing run into North Vietnam. Back home in Texas, his family could only wait and hope.

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    38 mins
  • The Final Flight of Captain Forrester

    The Final Flight of Captain Forrester
    Apr 15 2025
    A woman’s search for her father—a pilot who disappeared during a mission in Vietnam—collides with the fight over what we owe those who never returned from war. From the producers of "America's Girls" and "Tom Brown's Body," and hosted by Texas Monthly writer Josh Alvarez, the show debuts April 2025.

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    5 mins