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Prohibition’s Paper Trail: Bootlegging, Federal Courts, and Repeal
In 1930, police raided Eugene Shine’s home in Long Beach, California, and reported finding liquor valued at $20,000. The seizure was one small entry in a national enforcement campaign that had grown far beyond isolated raids. During Prohibition, federal agents, local police, prosecutors, courts, and political institutions were asked to control a market for alcohol that continued to attract millions of customers.
This episode follows that conflict through its records: concealed shipments, interstate investigations, federal court congestion, the Bureau of Prohibition’s pursuit of bootlegging…
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