DIXIE MAFIA: GEORGIA Ep. 1 | “Johnny Frank Has To Go”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Unforgiving and unremorseful, bootlegger Clarence “Head” Revel’s taste for money and power leads to murder. A series of increasingly ruthless crimes catapult him to Dixie Mafia kingpin. Shielded by corrupt cops and a killer instinct, Revel is seemingly untouchable until a long-forgotten mistake returns to haunt him. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to go. On the night of September 21st, 1944, Wilson McVeigh and Dave Walden, two part-time criminals from Georgia, were in a swamp near Pontavidra Beach on Florida's Atlantic
0:26.8	coast. Pontavidra is one of several beach communities straight east of Jacksonville, and the two low-level crooks were there to make a
0:35.0	delivery of sorts. Earlier that same day the St. Louis Cardinal's professional baseball team
0:41.6	clitched the National League pennet to set up a world series
0:44.6	against their cross-town American League counterparts, the St. Louis Browns.
0:49.5	It would be the eighth time in Major League Baseball history the two teams from the same
0:54.2	metropolitan area played each other in the World Series. 5,000 miles to the
1:00.1	East in Europe, Allied forces were pushing toward Germany. The day before
1:05.3	McVeigh and Walden waded into a Florida swamp, the American 82nd
1:10.1	Airborne Division, and the Guards Armed division of British tanks liberated Nymagin in Holland.
1:16.8	An Allied forces won the Battle of San Marino in Italy.
1:21.1	Unfortunately, those achievements were likely the furthest things from the minds of McVeigh and Walden.
1:27.0	The crooks had driven seven hours from Fitzgerald, Georgia on quiet back roads to make their delivery to the Florida swamp.
1:35.8	That delivery was in the backseat of Wilson McVeigh's car, and the two men were at that moment
1:41.5	digging a hole by the light of the moon. It was easy work. The ground was barely
1:46.8	above sea level and the entire southern coast had recently been pummeled by the first of three powerful hurricanes that would make landfall
1:54.6	that autumn. While they dug a hole, the man who had ordered the delivery was on his way back
2:00.8	to the spot. He was Clarence Revel, one of the most powerful criminals in Phoenix City, Alabama.
2:07.8	Phoenix City had a long history of crime, especially bootlegging and gambling, and it was hitting its peak in the 1940s.
2:16.2	The small city with a big crime problem sat along the banks of the Chattahoochee River
2:21.3	that forms the border between Alabama and Georgia.
2:25.5	Clarence Revel and his top associates had been expanding their bootlegging operation into Georgia.
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