Dying for a drink?
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
During the prohibition era of the 1920s and early 1930s, speakeasies and gin joints were the place to be to get ahold of “evil booze.” How did the government try to control access? They purposely poisoned industrial alcohol that was being repurposed for cocktails.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you with me on this? |
| 0:02.0 | We all love those stories that glorify the roaring twenties, when folks whispered a magic |
| 0:07.6 | password to get into speakeasies and gin joints for some illicit party and during prohibition. |
| 0:14.6 | But it wasn't all a roaring good time. |
| 0:17.3 | Would our government purposely poison the public to try to stop them from drinking? |
| 0:23.2 | Guess what? |
| 0:24.4 | These out the feds ordered industrial alcohol makers to add poison to what they sold, to scare |
| 0:30.8 | the public to death, maybe killing as many as 50,000 and blinding or paralyzing hundreds |
| 0:37.2 | of thousands more. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm Patty Steele, dying for a drink, literally, next on the backstory. |
| 0:46.6 | Evidence wise, we had personally no evidence. |
| 0:52.1 | We had the word of a 15-year-old who told lies, a lot of lies. |
| 1:03.0 | In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer, |
| 1:10.3 | Deputy Bill Hardy. |
| 1:12.4 | Without solid evidence, the case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored. |
| 1:19.8 | He did commit to an innocent man. |
| 1:22.4 | And he's been on death row all these years, and I didn't know it. |
| 1:28.1 | I'm Beth Shelburn from Lava for Good Podcasts. |
| 1:31.9 | This is Ear Witness. |
| 1:34.6 | Listen to Ear Witness on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 1:39.6 | podcasts. |
| 1:41.0 | And to hear episodes with no ads, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. |
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