Prohibition
On the stroke of midnight on January 16, 1920, America went dry. By decree of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, every citizen would be denied the right to produce or sell alcoholic beverages. Almost instantly, this remarkable new law set into motion a cavalcade of events whose fallout is still with us today. On Sunday, July 27th, A&E whisks viewers back to one of the most colorful eras in modern American history, a period that has become synonymous with gangsters, speakeasies and the Roaring Twenties, in the Special Presentation PROHIBITION: THIRTEEN YEARS THAT CHANGED AMERICA, a three-hour World Premiere airing at 8pm ET/9pm PT. PROHIBITION: THIRTEEN YEARS THAT CHANGED AMERICA is a fascinating look at how the 18th Amendment was doomed from the start -- how the righteous rejoiced, and the gangster flourished. How the craving for alcohol turned honest citizens into bootleggers, and criminals into millionaire celebrities. For thirteen years, corruption seeped into America's institutions, from the police right
· Izzie Einstein, whose disguises fooled bootleggers across the nation Three years in the making, PROHIBITION: THIRTEEN YEARS THAT CHANGED AMERICA draws on new research from across the United States, and brings to life the characters and atmosphere of the period with a cocktail of amusing and amazing personal narratives, including firsthand accounts from those who lived through Prohibition, combined with location filming, never-before-seen archive, and an original 1920s jazz soundtrack, to bring the era to life. Among the captivating and frank interviews from eyewitnesses are a man who ran four speakeasies, a coastguardsman who chased rumrunners on Rum Row, a newspaper editor who tried to take on Capone, a Ziegfeld Girl who used to dine with all the big gangsters of the time, the son of the D.A. who got Capone on tax evasion, a jazz musician given his break by Capone, a high society flapper, and the first man on the scene at the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. · Vincenzo Capone, alias Richard "Two Gun" Hart, the
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