Prohibition and the South Florida Connection (2011)

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A film about the prominent role South Florida, and its Caribbean neighbors played in the transportation of illegal booze into the U.S. during this infamous era. Depicting the prohibition era experience from Palm Beach to Key West is the engaging documentary, “Prohibition and the South Florida Connection.”

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00:04They would be bringing the booze in in the middle of the day.

00:09Any kind of boat that could smuggle from the Bahamas was being used.

00:14People were so desperate for funds, they were willing to break the law.

00:22This was a cat and mouse game between the Coast Guard and the Rum Runners.

00:28There were shootouts on the river and in the bay.

00:32The Rum Runners were the heroes and the feds were the bad guys.

00:38The word was out. Young Hanley was a Rum Runner.

00:45It was not an all-male profession.

00:49There were people that were making stills out in the western part of Broward County.

00:55We had federal police here, state police here, local police.

01:00And none were ever able to stop this thing.

01:02Lots of people made their living that way.

01:06If you had money, you could go to a speakeasy.

01:14The idea that Capone would be in Fort Lauderdale was a frightening possibility.

01:20You get an awful lot of bribery and an awful lot of corruption.

01:28Everybody, in a sense, became a Rum Runner or a bootlegger.

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