Your Weekly Constitutional
Your Weekly Constitutional
Stewart Harris
Prohibition, Part I
59 minutes Posted Sep 14, 2011 at 7:14 pm.
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The first in a series of episodes on Prohibition, which tie in with the new Ken Burns PBS documentary. Former Cook County Police Chief Art Bilek tells the gripping story of the Chicago mob and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the single most notorious act of gang violence during Prohibition. Such violence and the inability of corrupt politicians to prevent it eventually led to the repeal of the 18th Amendment.