Lucille Geoghegan interview, January 24, 1989.

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Lucille Geoghegan interview, January 24, 1989.

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These interviews focus on industry and community reaction to the closing of distilleries during Prohibition. Industry workers and executives, their relatives, local historians, and other residents discuss the economic consequences of Prohibition: the impact on other businesses, unemployment, and the loss of billions of dollars to the federal government in taxes. Although there was decline in living standards most distillers had farms to fall back on, and few faced great hardship. Other topics include bootlegging, the tolerant and protective attitudes of the community, the police, judges, and religious leaders; and temperance groups, which were not very active in the area.

1 sound cassette.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Geoghegan, Lucille,

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Miss Geoghegan gives the names of distilleries before and after Prohibition, number of distilleries in the county prior to Prohibition, distilleries were the biggest employer in the county: tells when she heard the first talk of Prohibition and the reasons for it: tells meaning of the terms "Pin Hooker" and "First Shot": comments on the prosecution of moonshiners and bootleggers: identifies two banks in the county that closed during the Great Depression: some people that were making moonshine wh...