Prohibition

Wealthy Mayor of Portland, ME. In 1851 he demanded the state legislature ban the sale of alcohol.

Discover the true story of America's "Great Experiment" - the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawing alcohol - in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's PROHIBITION.

In 1931, Al Capone is finally caught by the government for failing to file income tax.

In 1924 the Boston Herald held a contest for a word that captured the nations hypocracy over Prohibition

George Remus, a successful criminal attorney in Chicago became the king of the bootleggers with his operation.

Roy Olmstead, a Seattle police officer turned to bootlegging and was known to provide the best product on the west coast. He used bribery instead of violence, and was known as 'The Good Bootlegger.'

Ken Burns discusses Episode One of Prohibition, and what the United States was going through during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Fiorella LaGuardia was a Republican Congressman of New York and critic of the Volstead Act.

Wayne Wheeler, the gen. counsel for the Anti-Saloon League was the most powerful man in Washington, D.C.

The 1928 Presidental election between Hoover and Al Smith was one of the dirtiest in history.

Millions of Americans stopped drinking during Prohibition, but those that did drink, women as well as men, drank more.

The problem of drink would have to be overcome through legislation rather than voluntary abstinence.