Of course, dark fire tobacco, that was the cash crop.

But you had mostly subsistence farmers that raised what they ate, raised, a lot of some extent, what they wore, all this on the farm.

But they needed cash.

Needed cash to pay for the farm. Needed cash. They needed cash. They didn't raise. They Needed cash to pay for the farm.

They need cashed by groceries they didn't raise.

They need cash to clothe the children.

They cash to buy Mama New Calicoe Dress for Easter.

They need to cash to buy plow points.

They need cash to maintain their farming operation.

How they're going to make it?

They're going to grow tobacco.

On this episode, we're going to hear the true story of the Knight Rider Tobacco War in Kentucky and Tennessee

when farmers stood up against America's Goliath tobacco monopoly in a five-year reign of strategic terror.

But in the ruckus, it divided states, communities, and even

families, and the most continuous, violent unrest in America between the Civil War and the

race rides of the 1960s. But I think you might have a hard time deciding between the bad guys and the good ones, or at least

history has. If you ask people what they're afraid of, there would be a long and varied list,

but what should be at the top of that list are the things that divide us, because divisive

things make people do some crazy stuff.

We're going to interview author and former Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Bill Cunningham,

tobacco expert, Dr. Lloyd Murdoch, and hear an archival interview from the 1980s from the last living night writer.

I really doubt that you're going to want to miss this one.

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