[4] In 1991, Goodwyn met with All Things Considered host Robert Siegel, who connected him with the NPR hiring office.
[3] In 1993, Goodwyn went to Waco, Texas to add to National Desk Correspondent John Burnett's coverage of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege.
It became a major national story, and Goodwyn managed the first interview of a former Branch Davidian and other scoops which led to his being hired by NPR as a staff correspondent.
[6] Some of the noteworthy stories he covered were major hurricanes, the Oklahoma City bombing, the murders of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield, the Boy Scouts sexual abuse case, and the first case of ebola in the United States.
Goodwyn was married with two daughters and worked out of a home studio in Dallas, Texas.