the garden of good and evil" lived in 1980 also the central event of the book the murder of danny hansard. c-span local content vehicle staff stop there to talk with dorothy kingery sister of jim williams and owner of a home how her brother was represented in the book and the impact of "midnight in the garden of good and evil" on her family and the city of savannah. >> "midnight in the garden of good and evil" is a book whose main character, my brother so it is a book story i am familiar with. >>host: why was it written about him? >> i think because gm was such an amazing person if you met him you would never forget him. he was the electric. when he entered a room, you knew he was there. he was good-looking, a bright, well read, and very essentials. he enjoyed people. i have many stories that i could tell of people who are adults and say when i was a child my dad did some work and he played the pipe organ for me in the ballroom when he found out i liked music so generally related to the book has had a huge impact and it has had an impact on my family. starting by saying it should have bee

but the irony is that if he died in the very spot where he would have fallen if danny hansard the man who killed, had actually fired a gun at him, has claimed, and hit him he would have fallen right where he eventually died nine years later. c-span: where were you when you heard of this? >> guest: i happened to be in the atlanta airport on my way to miami at two atlanta through atlanta to savannah. and i'd gone to miami for i don't know, for it. and i got the word that he died. i was on my way back to savannah any way and went back. so he died. in fact that's the end of the book there you go. there's some suspense right there. but before -- what happens before is suspenseful. c-span: how close were you to him before he died? >> guest: he was very forthcoming. he was the best interviewers i had in my professional life and magazines. he was very forthcoming, very cony, very articulate and like many southerners a wonderful storyteller. that's the one thing i noticed about seven hours, they tell stories of the time to read a story might last one sentence but it's part of the tradition of