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Whiskey and Wiretaps
January 18, 2023 @ 12:00 am - January 19, 2023 @ 12:00 am
Whiskey and Wiretaps: The Northwest’s Rumrunning King
Wednesday, January 18th, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Zoom event
On Thanksgiving Day, 1925, Roy Olmstead was trapped by federal prohibition agents and their Tommy guns on a lonely Puget Sound dock. His reign as the Northwest’s most prolific bootlegger had ended. But big questions—political, cultural, and legal—remained.
Why did Olmstead, the youngest lieutenant in Seattle Police Department history, form a secret gang to take over Prohibition bootlegging in the Northwest?
Free
White River Valley Museum
918 H St, Auburn
253.288.7433, wrvmuseum.org