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Transcript: Historical Look at Alcohol in America
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- January 13, 1995
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[`All Things Considered' theme music]
ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: For the anniversary of prohibition, a little
history.
LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: On All Things Considered from NPR.
[`All Things Considered' theme music]
ROBERT SIEGEL: Al Capone, Elliott Ness, bathtub gin. That's the
story of Prohibition we won't be telling you about in this part of
All Things Considered.
LINDA WERTHEIMER: But you will hear about Benjamin Rush, Dioclesian
Lewis, Frances Willard and God's Good Creature with the story of how
America drank and why it went dry.
WILLIAM RORHERBACH: For example, at court sessions, bottles of liquor
would be passed around to everyone in the ...