any questions? - throwing myself into research, i watched everything i could find. - uh. [clears throat] - including this beautiful promotional video a local tv station presented to buck. - buck was born september 9, 1938 to howard and phyllis mckeon. - i learned so much about his roots, i could have worked for ancestry.com. - dad called me his little buckaroo, and it just stuck. ballistic missile defense. - with the dulcet tones of buck mckeon haunting my dreams. - our nation cannot afford business as usual. - i hopped a flight to his old congressional district to investigate this suspect further. which is why i found myself in a nondescript strip mall in southern california. where are we? - we re in the santa clarita area, north of los angeles. and this is where howard and phil s western wear used to be. - this is patrice apodaca. she s a former journalist from the los angeles times, whose beat included the santa clarita valley,
over the next few months, i made myself a leading expert on buck mckeon. - welcome back to our witnesses. any questions? - throwing myself into research, i watched everything i could find. - uh. [clears throat] - including this beautiful promotional video a local tv station presented to buck. - buck was born september 9, 1938 to howard and phyllis mckeon. - i learned so much about his roots, i could have worked for ancestry.com. - dad called me his little buckaroo, and it just stuck. ballistic missile defense. - with the dulcet tones of buck mckeon haunting my dreams. - our nation cannot afford business as usual. - i hopped a flight to his old congressional district to investigate this suspect further. which is why i found myself in a nondescript strip mall in southern california. where are we? - we re in the santa clarita area, north of los angeles. and this is where howard and phil s western wear used to be. - this is patrice apodaca.
and eventually, the mystery is taken out of it. we ve got our guy. good luck. - thank you, man. phew. over the next few months, i made myself a leading expert on buck mckeon. - welcome back to our witnesses. any questions? - throwing myself into research, i watched everything i could find. - uh. [clears throat] - including this beautiful promotional video a local tv station presented to buck. - buck was born september 9, 1938 to howard and phyllis mckeon. - i learned so much about his roots, i could have worked for ancestry.com. - dad called me his little buckaroo, and it just stuck. ballistic missile defense. - with the dulcet tones of buck mckeon haunting my dreams. - our nation cannot afford business as usual. - i hopped a flight to his old congressional district to investigate this suspect further. which is why i found myself in a nondescript strip mall in southern california.
i wanted to write him a song. i drove down to north carolina thinking about it, what kind of song would be good for a little v varmint like james. it had to be a cowboy lullaby, gene autrey, sons of the pioneers, kind of a lights out in the bunkhouse kind of thing. go to sleep, you little buckaroo. yee-haw. there is a young cowboy lives on the range his horse and his cattle, they re his only companions he works in the saddle, and he