so there are people in there that support him and want to see a lot of change. >> ifill: kevin eckstromank you very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: the holidays are a time of the year when people get together with their loved ones and it's often a period for reflection an intimate conversations. tonight, we look at a kind of unique oral history project that's built a legacy from gathering thousands of those kinds of conversations and many more. its founder just won a major award for his work, which may be well known to many of our viewers. hari sreenivasan recorded this conversation in our new york studio. >> time now for storycorps. >> sreenivasan: for more than a decade, the storycorps project has been recording and archiving the stories of everyday americans, more than 50,000 in all so far. that are as varied as a family of five becoming homeless and forced to move into a shelter. >> i remember pulling my hood over my head because i was embarrassed. i didn't want her to see me, you know. or a colleague says, "we're going to go volunteer and we're going to feed the families," and it

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