Episode 6 - ”He Was a Good Man”

Episode 6 of The Telling Takes Us Home begins with a story about a dentist who is called upon to perform surgery following the shoot-out at Wounded Knee in 1973. This is followed by stories about the early days of aviation, the Buck Rogers comic strip and subsequent popular radio show, author Lee Smith talking about her eccentric uncle who was a gifted musician with a drinking problem, a fire-and-brimstone preacher who puts his life at risk when he's forced to confront the members of his church in the back country of South Carolina, and a poem written for a step-father as he prepares to leaves this world.