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Gita Kaufman and Elie Wiesel

This episode features an interview with filmmaker Gita Kaufman, director of the documentary film, Shadows From My Past, that follows Kaufman as she returns to Vienna after fleeing during the Holocaust in 1940. This episode also features an interview with

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Yaron Gissin, William Bratton and Alan King

This episode features a new interview with Kalicaya founder Yaron Gissin, who invented the portable power source known a sthe Kalipack. It also has an interview with NYPD police commissioner William Bratton from 1996, just after Bratton finished his first

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Tribute to Joe Franklin

This episode of the Leon Charney Report is a tribute to the host of the Joe Franklin show and close personal friend of Leon Charney’s,the late Joe Franklin. Franklin was a radio and television personality in NYC who started his

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Vanessa Lapa, 2014 Special Series

This episode of the Charney Report features Vanessa Lapa, a filmmaker who directed the “The Decent One,” a documentary focusing on the recent discovery of letters written by Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler during the Holocaust. The episode ends with an

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Sport Broadcaster Special: Dick Schaap and Bill Mazer

In this episode, Leon Charney interviews the game changer in sports broadcasting. Dick Schaap (September 27, 1934- December 21, 2001) was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author. Fed up with the grandiose and self-important nature of the National Football League’s

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