Ken Burns | Teaser Pete Hamill | PBS
Duration: 00:25
Program:
Prohibition
Broadcast Date: Oct. 2, 2011
Pete Hamill talks about the natural impulse to defy authority.
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Ken Burns | Teaser Pete Hamill | PBS
Pete Hamill talked about defying authority 00:25
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Hyperpartisan... (#103)
The 1928 Presidental election was a bitter battle of dirty politics directed at Al Smith. 12:39
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Unintended... (#102)
The Volstead Act was much stricter than anticipated. 03:15
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Hyperpartisan... (#102)
1924 Democratic convention set the stage for rural vs. urban America 07:57
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Ken Burns | Prohibition: American Folly | PBS
Watch Prohibition...where average citizens became lawbreakers. 00:32
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Unintended... (#102)
Many Americans drank more during Prohibition 01:51
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Unintended... (#102)
Neither the states nor the federal government wanted to fund Prohibition 02:04
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Last Call | PBS (#101)
January 16, 1920 the 18th Amendment came into effect. 05:04
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Washington DC Mass... (#101)
In 1913 Prohibitionists marched on Washington to demand a Prohibition Amendment. 00:51
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | New York Cordial... (#102)
Lou Alpern sold alcohol at his NYC cordial stores with the help of bribed policemen 01:54
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | George Remus The... (#102)
George Remus is caught by the government then put on trial 08:41
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Al Capone Downfall | PBS (#103)
Al Capone is finally caught by the government for failing to file income tax 05:04
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | George Remus The... (#102)
George Remus, a Chicago lawyer became king of the bootleggers. 07:58
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Fiorella LaGuardia | PBS (#103)
Fiorella LaGuarida was a NY congressman and critic of Prohibition 03:31
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Wayne Wheeler | PBS (#101)
Wayne Wheeler was the general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League 05:02
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Al Capone Murder to... (#103)
On Feb. 14, 1929, seven men are gunned down and the public is incensed. 07:31
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Al Capone Beer Wars... (#102)
Gang violence of Chicago's bootleggers escalates 05:04
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Georgetown... (#102)
Don Ward talks about hiding illegal alcohol in Arlington Cemetery 01:41
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Eliza Jane Thompson... (#101)
Eliza Jane Thompson led a group of women in prayer while protesting in front of saloons 07:12
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Ken Burns | PROHIBITION | Neal Dow | PBS (#101)
An early prohibitionist, Neal Dow was the wealthy mayor of Portland, Maine. 02:49
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