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1926 was the year that Americans all over the country said screw it, and screw it they did,

mixing too much bootleg booze, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, with fast cars, sex,

and jazz music can only lead to trouble.

The number of allegedly normal people senselessly committing ghastly murders in 1926 is astounding.

Is like a switch got turned on and some people went mad, unlike any other time in American

history.

The book they were featuring this evening is 1926, Homicide in America, with my special guest

journalist and author, David Kohlchick.

Welcome to the program, and thank you very much for agreeing to this interview.

Again, David Kohlchick.

Hey, it's always great being on this show, and I'd like to thank you and your listeners

for liking me.

Thank you very much for joining us once again for your latest book.

Let me ask this, what was the impetus for this book, 1926, Homicide in America?

Well, while I was writing my other five books about, mostly about California crime,

maybe they all were about California crime, I kept finding 1920 things happening in 1926

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