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Apr 2022
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EP253: Reconciling Dad the Farmer and Da...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Iowa listener Joy Neal Kidney shares her father's story. Our regular contributors Jon Elfner and Dr. Kate Masur, author of "Until Justice Be Done," tell the rest of the story that begins with three runaway enslaved people. Tyson Timbs tells us how he found out that old habits do indeed die hard when he was arrested and convicted for selling drugs to undercover cops.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - Reconciling Dad the Farmer and Dad the Veteran Pilot

10:00 - How The Civil War Openly Became about Slavery

35:00 - Why it Took One Man 7 Years to Get His Car Back

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