On this episode of Our American Stories, what started as a quest to find black fans for a brother-in-law morphed into a lifelong mission to find anything small, electric, and an appliance. Here's the story of "The World's Largest Small Electrical Appliance Museum" in Missouri, and the man behind it all. Some people don’t have the highest view of lawyers, but not every lawyer is an ambulance chaser. At least, Bill Bryk isn't. Stephen Ambrose tells us a very unlikely World War II story about George McGovern, the liberal, antiwar Democratic presidential candidate from South Dakota who was soundly defeated by President Nixon in the 1972 election.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - The Largest Small Electrical Appliance Museum in the World

23:00 - Bill Bryk Puts His Lawyering Skills to Good Use

35:00 - The Unlikely WWII B-24 Combat Pilot-Hero