Prohibition

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

Rum Row started at the tip of Maine and continued down to the coast of Florida. Boats would wait three miles off the coastline then bring in illegal alcohol at night.

A review of alcohol's influence in America. Beer and Wine are overtaken by hard liquors.

Roy Olmstead is caught in a wiretap and sentenced to four years hard labor. His convicition is upheld by the Supreme Court, but Olmstead receives a pardon in 1935.

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Wynton Marsalis discuss what it takes to put together the score for Prohibition, and how the music takes on a life of it's own.

At the beginning of the 20th century most of the population shifted from rural to urban through immigration.

Prohibition, from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the rise and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment.

George Remus, King of the Bootleggers, is caught by the government, then put on trial for murdering his wife.

Watch Prohibition, where lofty goals trumped common sense, and average citizens became lawbreakers.

Feb. 14, 1929: George Moran's gang is gunned down in cold blood and Capone is thought to have ordered the hit.

With the passage of the 16th Amendment, the Goverment no longer needed taxes from Alcohol. By 1914 a prohibition amendment seemed within reach.

Tensions emerged between native born Americans and the newly arrived immigrants.